Can Virtue Really be Achieved Without the Help of God? - Mattson, Roy M.
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We are by nature moral beings who desire virtue.1 This fact is borne out by innumerable studies.2 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics remain among the most influential works on ethics and human moral psychology. Aristotle claims that human beings can develop good character traits and achieve virtue with the appropriate upbringing (what Aristotle called habituation). Much of what Aristotle says about character traits, virtue, and habituation is accepted today and inspires character education.3 Yet recent results in experimental psychology challenge the notion of character traits…mehr

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We are by nature moral beings who desire virtue.1 This fact is borne out by innumerable studies.2 Aristotle's Nicomachean Ethics and Eudemian Ethics remain among the most influential works on ethics and human moral psychology. Aristotle claims that human beings can develop good character traits and achieve virtue with the appropriate upbringing (what Aristotle called habituation). Much of what Aristotle says about character traits, virtue, and habituation is accepted today and inspires character education.3 Yet recent results in experimental psychology challenge the notion of character traits and virtue as understood by Aristotle. 4 The challenge is the abundance of evidence showing that almost all human beings lie, cheat, steal, and harm others; we lack virtue. Christian Miller captures the problem when he says, "the burden is on the Aristotelian to show how realizing such a normative ideal is psychologically realistic for beings like us."5 This dissertation argues that virtue is not a realistic ideal for us absent God's help. I contend that Aristotle was mistaken about human nature and the power of a good upbringing to create good character traits and achieve virtue.