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Aristotle's Ethics: Moral Development & Human Nature
Chapter 3: Ethical Virtue as Developmental Prerequisite for Contemplative Excellence
In this chapter, May continues to build her developmentalist interpretation of the Nicomachean Ethics. Here, she shows how excellent contemplative activity is a developed ability that presupposes both affective and cognitive preconditions. The virtues of character or moral virtues, May argues, provide the affective and cognitive “seeds” out of which excellent contemplative activity grows.
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