virtues

• Virtues


  Good habit or a habit of doing good
• You may know the right things to do but it doesn't mean you will execute the good
• Doing good does not come automatically to man
• Conditioning


  You need to condition yourself to do the good
• Learning


  You need to learn from doing — immersion
• Practice


  Practice makes perfect
• Example of practice


  • Swimming
• If you know how to swim and are suddenly pushed into the pool

  You won't drown
• If you don't know how to swim and are pushed into a pool

  You will drown
• Immersion in training made you familiar to the condition when the condition came you are able to respond well
• Example of normal circumstances


  • Choosing your wife
• When you are two in 1


  You save her and save the both of you
• Example of capital punishment

  • Death penalty
• Some murders should be put to death
• Many believe that killing murderers is murder
• Contrapasso


  Society teaches how bad an action is by how grave the punishment is
• Keeping murderers alive results in more murders occurring
• It is virtually impossible to execute an innocent person
• The state is executing the criminal, not the individual
• Virtue and Happiness


  Path to happiness
• Acquiring virtues


  Puts us on the path to succeed
• Core of Morality


  Figuring out what will make us truly happy in a deep and lasting way by obtaining what is good for us
• Morality is not about rules but about seeking and obtaining the good
• Virtues make it possible to move toward the good
• We are most human when we make decisions towards a higher and bigger overall goal
• God


  The only thing that can truly satisfy our infinite desire to be happy
• Morality is not restricting your freedom but directs you to happiness
• Morality helps you to do or choose the means to achieve the ultimate goal/happiness
• Conditioning


  We can condition ourselves to respond in a certain way
• The desire to be happy is infinitely embedded in our hearts
• Confidence


  Your skills/ familiarity of the thing at hand
• Not confident because you are not used to certain things
• Confidence is not how you view yourself
• 3 Kinds of Virtues

  • Intellectual
  • Moral
• Intellectual virtues


  Good habits of the mind
• Learning


  Understand why things are the way they are (reality)
• Understanding


  Fixed or stable disposition of the intellect to grasp and understand why
• Principles


  Things that do the explaining; reason why behind them
• General rules


  Under+Stand=sub+stance- trying to understand the substance of the thing
• Essence of things


  What makes a thing what it is