More quotes… "Since virtue is concerned with passions and actions, and on voluntary passions and actions praise and blame are bestowed, on those that are involuntary pardon, and sometimes also pity, to distinguish the voluntary and the involuntary is presumable necessary for those who are studying the nature of virtue, and useful also for legislators [...]
More quotes for my students. Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. "Intellectual virtue in the main owes both its birth and its growth to teaching (for which reason it requires experience and time), while moral virtue comes about as a result of habit, whence also [...]
Quotes for my students studying virtue ethics. Melden, A. I. (1967). Ethical theories; a book of readings (2d ed.). Englewood Cliffs, N.J.,: Prentice-Hall. Excerpts from Aristotle’s The Nichomachean Ethics "Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly [...]
Melden, "three forms of desire, each with its characteristic object: wisdom; honor; gain as a means to the satisfaction of bodily appetites…reason alone is immortal and separable from the body." (53) Socrates, "It is clear that the same thing cannot act in two opposite ways or be in two opposite states at the same [...]