Assertion: virtue | /r/HasProperty | habit
Facets:
value: according to aristotle
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: A virtue is a habit or quality that allows the bearer to succeed at his, her, or its purpose.
text: The virtue of patience is that habit by which we endure hardship so that we maintain the course of action set out by reason.
text: A virtue is a habit or quality that allows individuals to succeed at their purpose .
text: Because virtue is a habit acquired through practice.
text: A virtue is a habit, what Aristotle calls a second nature.
text: It is a contrast between a man who was trained up in virtue — who knew that virtue is a habit difficult to acquire, the perfection of a faculty that is not defined according to an individual's caprice but that springs from the nature and the purpose of the faculty itself — and those who are not.
text: A virtue is a habit, what Aristotle calls a second nature.
text: It is a contrast between a man who was trained up in virtue—who knew that virtue is a habit difficult to acquire, the perfection of a faculty that is not defined according to an individual’s caprice but that springs from the nature and the purpose of the faculty itself—and those who are not.
text: Consequently, since virtue is a habit perfecting man in view of his doing good actions, it would follow that it is only in the reason, so that there would be none but intellectual virtues.
text: The virtues are thus the practical attitudes and habits adopted in obedience to those principles.
text: Virtues are habits.
text: Yet in what sense the virtues are habits remains a complex question that involves the question of how the virtues are individuated.
text: Thus the virtues are habits that give us the power to act in a manly way, with strength sufficient to do what is right.
text: It is commonly thought that virtues, according to Aristotle, are habits and that the good life is a life of mindless routine.
text: Are you thinking that no matter how we analyze the effects of habituation, we will never get around the fact that Aristotle plainly says that virtues are habits?
text: Unlike any intellectual capacity, virtues of character are dispositions to act in certain ways in response to similar situations, the habits of behaving in a certain way.
text: The virtue of patience is that habit by which we endure hardship so that we maintain the course of action set out by reason.