Educating for Virtue
Educating for Virtue
Jeff Robertson
03 - Defining Virtue
21 minutes Posted Nov 18, 2021 at 2:44 pm.
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Virtue - Habits toward the good; habits toward the Ideal

Habits are inclinations, biases, and tendencies that are hard to acquire and hard to lose

The Ideal man (the virtuous man or "manly" man) seems to do good and right things by second nature

Virtue is the mean between two vices

Vices of excess and lack

Courage is a virtue; cowardice is to lack virtue; rashness is to have courage in excess

Virtue and virtuous action and context