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On a personal level, meanwhile, the message of depletable willpower rings clear: next time you find yourself full of self-discipline, don't spend it trying to behave virtuously; spend it, instead, altering your environment to reduce your future dependence on willpower.
As Aristotle taught us, the best way to attain virtue is to behave virtuously.
So Machiavelli thinks that the ordinary processes of politics require that the Prince "must learn how not to be good", though he should maintain the appearance of virtue and indeed behave virtuously when the cost is low (Machiavelli 1513, 52).
First, it may be taken as implying that God created the human being actually to do good, that is, to actually behave virtuously and to always make the appropriate moral choices.
In the case of pleasure, there are other reasons for thinking that it is not worthy of admiration, namely, that pleasant experiences are not admirable like virtue and intellectual activity and that one is not considered admirable in respect of feeling pleasure, though one is in respect of behaving virtuously and in respect of intellectual activity (FE 271).
If you are not behaving virtuously in your own home, then you are not free.
Why do I behave as I do?
How should I behave around Paralympians?
I behave differently depending on the seasons.
How should I behave in Burma?
I behave differently.
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