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The core move of virtue ethics?
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Grow the right character, and the right actions follow — 'what should I BE?' before 'what should I DO?'.
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Aristotle's 'golden mean'?
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Each virtue is the healthy middle between too little and too much — e.g. courage between cowardice and recklessness.
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How do you become virtuous (Aristotle)?
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By practice — acting the right way repeatedly until it becomes second nature, like a skill.
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Character (in virtue ethics)?
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The settled habits and traits that make you the kind of person you are.
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MacIntyre on virtue?
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Virtues only make sense inside a practice and a community with a shared story of the good life.
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Confucian ren?
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Warm human-heartedness, grown by practising your roles well — a non-Western character ethics.
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Buddhist character (Dīgha Nikāya)?
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The good life is shaped by cultivating calm, compassion and honesty and rooting out craving.
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Why cite Confucius and Buddhism here?
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They show 'character first' ethics arose across very different traditions — not just one culture.
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