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EV 2ESO - 03 Virtues and vices - Contenido educativo

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Subido el 13 de septiembre de 2020 por César Pedro P.

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What are virtues? How can we become virtuous people?

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Your character is the part of your personality that can be changed. 00:00:01
How can you change your character? 00:00:06
You can if you modify your habits, what you regularly do every day. 00:00:08
Aristotle, who was a Greek philosopher, insisted on the importance of this. 00:00:14
He said that if you want to become a happy person, to have a good life, 00:00:19
you should get used to doing every day what is correct. 00:00:23
That's what he called virtues. Virtues are good habits, like, for example, telling the truth, being sincere, or being generous. 00:00:28
On the other hand, vices are bad habits, like telling lies. 00:00:40
Aristotle thought that it is extremely important to get used to practicing virtue. 00:00:46
If you practice sincerity, if you tell the truth every day, you will eventually become a sincere person, 00:00:52
as telling the truth will, with time, be part of your personality. 00:01:01
But how do we know where virtue is? 00:01:07
Aristotle thought that virtue is in the middle ground between two extremes. 00:01:11
One extreme is a deficiency, it is not enough, and that is bad 00:01:16
The other extreme is an excess, it is too much, and that is not good either 00:01:22
I'll give you an example to make clear what Aristotle meant 00:01:28
He thought about a soldier who is at war 00:01:33
If the soldier is a coward, he isn't brave enough 00:01:39
So that is a deficiency. He doesn't have enough courage and that is a vice. 00:01:44
But it is also a vice if the soldier is reckless, meaning he's too brave and he tries to attack the enemies all alone without the help of his friends. 00:01:51
That is also a vice. 00:02:02
What is correct for a soldier is to be brave, to have courage in the middle way between recklessness and cowardice. 00:02:05
The same happens with everything. How much should I eat? If I eat too much, that is bad, 00:02:14
it is a vice. I will get fat. I will have health problems. But if I don't eat enough, 00:02:22
that is also bad. I will also suffer problems like anorexia. So the right thing is in the 00:02:29
middle way not too much not too little that is virtue of course this middle 00:02:37
ground may depend on the person it's not the same if you are an adolescent or an 00:02:44
old person you don't need the same kind of food or the same amount so if you are 00:02:49
prudent if you are intelligent you will know how to find the middle way between 00:02:56
two extremes and you will know where your middle ground is that is virtue for you and that is what 00:03:03
you should get used to doing if you want to have a happy and good life according to Aristotle 00:03:13
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