relational inquiry regarding meaning » value » character / valued by me / my 'is'
• virtue ethics: Aristotle, Stoicism, and so on
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• Annas, J. (2011) Intelligent virtue [Oxford UP]
• Graver, M. R. (2007) Traits of character. In Stoicism and emotion [Univ. of Chicago Press]—see pg. 138 for Stoicism's conditions (hexeis): virtue as non-scalar conditions (diatheseis), and habitudes as scalar conditions (hexeis as mere conditions)
• Peterson, C., & Seligman, M. E. P. (2004) Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification [Oxford UP]
• Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics. Aristotle's account of practical virtues as settled dispositions developed by rationally trained habituation fits nicely with this node. Virtues and vices are features of character. Our character is what we bring to a situation. The quality of our character will determine how the situation affects us (passions), which in turn motivates our response (actions). Our passions and actions can be in excess or deficient (both vices) or strike the mean which is virtue. And if we consistently deploy our virtue, exercising good judgment in all areas of our lives, we'll achieve our goal of eudaimonia (happiness, flourishing, living well).
