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#habituation
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Adab, li and hexis: is character trained the same way in three traditions?
I make hand-drawn batik in a workshop my mother started in Yogyakarta. When a girl comes to learn, she doesn't begin by drawing. She begins by preparing cloth, heating wax, watching. She learns how to sit, how to hold the canting, how…
Started by Ratna Wulandari0 replies84 views -
If virtue ethics says ‘do what the virtuous person would do’, how does a beginner use that?
I coached rugby to under-16s for most of my working life and I am now reading Aristotle in retirement, slowly, with a pencil. Something is bothering me and I suspect it is a beginner's worry, so forgive me. The summaries I have…
Started by Gerrit Venter5 replies169 views -
Traditions that disagree about the self agree about how to live, so ethics can do without metaphysics
I taught ethics in a Gymnasium for years, and the comparison that always woke my students up was this one. Put the great traditions side by side on what a person is, and they disagree completely: an immortal soul, an eternal self…
Started by Henrike Vogel6 replies236 views