Practical Ethics
Aristotle believed that ethical knowledge is not only a theoretical knowledge, but rather that a person must have "experience of the actions in life" and have been "brought up in fine habits" to become good (NE 1095a3 and b5). For a person to become virtuous, he can't simply study what virtue is, but must actually do virtuous things.
| “ | We are not studying in order to know what virtue is, but to become good, for otherwise there would be no profit in it. (NE 2.2) | ” |
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