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[7]
Were this not so, there would be no need for teachers of the arts, but
everybody would be born a good or bad craftsman as the case might be. The same then is
true of the virtues. It is by taking part in transactions with our fellow-men that some of
us become just and others unjust; by acting in dangerous situations and forming a habit of
fear or of confidence we become courageous or cowardly. And the same holds good of our
dispositions with regard to the appetites, and anger; some men become temperate and
gentle, others profligate and irascible, by
actually comporting themselves in one way or the other in relation to those passions. In a
word, our moral dispositions are formed as a result of the corresponding activities.
Aristotle in 23 Volumes, Vol. 19, translated by H. Rackham. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1934.
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