Coaching practices for How to Practice Virtue Ethics
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Does this sound like the set of challenges you might be facing?
- I keep trying to fix one trait
- I want to become a better person but "be better" is too vague to act on
- I work on my character all in my own head, by my own standards, and it stays abstract and unproven
- I keep waiting until I feel brave or patient or generous before I act that way, and the feeling never reliably shows up
- I want to actually become a better person, not just vaguely intend to, but "be better" is so fuzzy I never know what I’m working on
Practices that may help
- Virtue Ethics, Made Practical
Virtue ethics, developed by Aristotle and extended by thinkers like Alasdair MacIntyre, holds that ethics is primarily about who you are rather than which rules you follow or which outcomes you produce. The practical core: identify the virtues a flourishing human being needs, and train them through deliberate habitual action — because character is what you repeatedly do, not what you occasionally decide. - Practice virtues as interconnected, not separate
When a virtue feels absent, look for which related virtue is also being neglected.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Identify the virtues you most need to cultivate
Name the three character traits whose absence most limits you — those are your practice targets.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Embed your virtues in a practice community
The virtues needed for excellence in any serious practice (craft, sport, relationship) are real virtues — find the practice that calls them out.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Cultivate virtue through deliberate habituation
Do the virtuous action — even imperfectly, even without the feeling — until the disposition follows.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - The virtue audit
Ask which of the four Stoic virtues you exercised — and which you neglected — today.
The Stoic Daily Review - Choose and study role models deliberately
Select a specific person whose character in a specific domain you want to internalize, and study how they act — not just what they say.
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Learning through exemplar study
Study the conduct of a person you consider exemplary and identify one specific behaviour you can emulate.
Confucian Self-Cultivation: The Mencius Approach - View your life as a narrative, not a sequence of choices
Ask: what story am I living, and does it reflect the character I am trying to build?
Virtue Ethics, Made Practical - Act as if sages were watching — the practice of the philosophical community
Before any action, ask: would a person I genuinely respect — who embodies the values I aspire to — approve of this?
Pierre Hadot’s Spiritual Exercises
Related concerns
- Macintyre Practices Virtues
The virtues needed for excellence in any serious practice (craft, sport, relationship) are real virtues — find the practice that calls them out.
Embed your virtues in a practice community
- Virtue Ethics As A Parent
Virtue ethics, developed by Aristotle and extended by thinkers like Alasdair MacIntyre, holds that ethics is primarily about who you are rather than which rules you follow or which outcomes you produce. The practical core: identify the virtues a flourishing human being needs, and train them through deliberate habitual action — because character is what you repeatedly do, not what you occasionally decide.
- Virtue Ethics Daily Practice
Virtue ethics, developed by Aristotle and extended by thinkers like Alasdair MacIntyre, holds that ethics is primarily about who you are rather than which rules you follow or which outcomes you produce. The practical core: identify the virtues a flourishing human being needs, and train them through deliberate habitual action — because character is what you repeatedly do, not what you occasionally decide.
- Virtue Ethics For My Teenager
Name the three character traits whose absence most limits you — those are your practice targets.
Identify the virtues you most need to cultivate
- Virtue Ethics In A New Job
Virtue ethics, developed by Aristotle and extended by thinkers like Alasdair MacIntyre, holds that ethics is primarily about who you are rather than which rules you follow or which outcomes you produce. The practical core: identify the virtues a flourishing human being needs, and train them through deliberate habitual action — because character is what you repeatedly do, not what you occasionally decide.
- Virtue Ethics Practice
Virtue ethics, developed by Aristotle and extended by thinkers like Alasdair MacIntyre, holds that ethics is primarily about who you are rather than which rules you follow or which outcomes you produce. The practical core: identify the virtues a flourishing human being needs, and train them through deliberate habitual action — because character is what you repeatedly do, not what you occasionally decide.
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