Aristotle: Nicomachean Ethics

How is moral virtue like the arts?

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Citing a brief etymology of the Greek word ethike, Aristotle is able to show that moral virtue is intimately related to ethos, which means habit. Thus, like the arts, he thinks that moral virtue is acquired primarily by skill-making habits.

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Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics, Book II