 For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them, eg men become builders by building and lyreplayers by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.  At Peril: Stories of Injusticeby Thomas J. Cottle - 2003 - 328 pagesNo preview available - About this book
 | Charles Irénée Castel de Saint-Pierre - Peace - 1927 - 392 pages
...learn by doing them, eg men become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre ; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. 75. Next we must consider what virtue is. Since things that are found in the soul are of three kinds... | |
 | James M. Gustafson - Religion - 1975 - 203 pages
...we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit." We "learn by doing them." "We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."13 As a person acts in certain ways over a period of time, a certain quality is formed in his... | |
 | David Summers - Philosophy - 1990 - 384 pages
...learn by doing them . . . become builders by building and lyre players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts" (1103a26ff.). Both art and prudence act with respect to the variable, on the contingent or the particular,... | |
 | Joseph James Chambliss - Education - 1987 - 198 pages
...kinds that we learn to actualize our potential virtues. We acquire the virtues by practicing them: "We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."22 This is not a mere truism for Aristotle, because he wants to emphasize the differences among... | |
 | Eamonn Callan - Education - 1988 - 186 pages
...learn by doing them, eg men become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."32 The virtues are acquired by practising them. But how can we practise what we do not already... | |
 | Bruce C. Birch - Religion - 1989 - 248 pages
...formulation of the ethics of virtue, or character formation, writes much the same in the Nicomachean Ethics: "We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts."4 Hebrew wisdom literature says much the same, adding that benefits accrue for the life of virtue.... | |
 | Sarah Broadie Professor of Philosophy Princeton University - Philosophy - 1991 - 482 pages
...we learn by doing, eg men become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. This is confirmed by what happens in states; for legislators make the citizens good by forming habits... | |
 | Reginald E. Allen - Education - 1991 - 468 pages
...for instance, men become builders by building houses, harpers 1103B by playing on the harp. Similarly we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts. This truth is attested by the experience of states: lawgivers make the citizens good by training them... | |
 | James Q. Wilson - Philosophy - 1995 - 252 pages
..."Ethics" comes from the Greek word "ethos," which means habit. Aristotle described the process as follows: "We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts." Moral virtue is the same as a good character, and a good character is formed not through moral instruction... | |
 | Oliver F. Williams, John W. Houck - Business - 1992 - 222 pages
...learn by doing them, eg men become builders by building and lyre-players by playing the lyre; so too we become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts (Bk. II, ch. 1, 1103a). The companies acclaimed for their ethical corporate culture usually can trace... | |
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