Tuesday, September 12, 2017

On the Acquisition of Morality

Going back to Aristotle, another thing he said is that ethics, which he seemed to define as good moral habits, are not inherently part of our natures, but are developed by habit. I partially agree with him. I think that all people are born with some good in them, but we must develop that goodness by putting it into practice. Thus, morality is both something that we are born with and something that we have to put conscious effort into developing. At least, those are my current thoughts about it. I'm looking forward to having a philosophical discussion about it tomorrow.

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