Proper functioning and virtue are acquired through habit formation, specifically through repeated deliberation and choice: one must repeatedly decide and choose based on reasoned deliberation about ends and means until it becomes a settled mental habit, because one instance of virtuous action does not make one virtuous any more than one day makes a summer.
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“there needs to be deliberation and choice decision that is to say in um uh one manner after the other uh when a decision is called for where there are two ways that you should go more ways you could go what should I do uh deliberation about the ends that tell us what constitutes good functioning [7:48]”
Created: 8/11/2026, 12:01:26 AM
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