1. Aristotle on Nicomachean and Virtue Ethics
Another key theme in virtue ethics is moral understanding. ... The last key theme in virtue ethics is moral education. ... He describes that intellectual virtue is born from and grown by teaching, whereas moral virtue comes to us a result of habit, that we get the virtues by first exercising them. ... In Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle lays out the idea that all knowledge and every action of man aims at some good, and he claims that the chief good of man is to be happy, and that this good is only achievable through activity of the soul exhibiting excellence; that is being virtu...
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