Sentence examples for action trait from inspiring English sources

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According to Aristotle, a voluntary action or trait has two distinctive features.

First, there is a control condition: the action or trait must have its origin in the agent.

7. The ambiguity displayed in Aristotle's conception of moral responsibility is linked to another how to interpret the condition that the action or trait be up to the agent.

Its central instance is the Hobbesian view—still very much on early eighteenth-century minds that to judge an action or trait virtuous is to take pleasure in it because you believe it to promote your safety.

The remainder of Aristotle's discussion is devoted to spelling out the conditions under which it is appropriate to hold a moral agent blameworthy or praiseworthy for some particular action or trait.

Egoism about virtue is the view that to judge an action or trait virtuous is to take pleasure in it because you believe it to serve some interest of yours.

Some believe that the action (or trait) needs to be up to the agent in the sense that she could have, at the time of action (or development of the trait), either performed it or not performed it (or developed it vs. not developed it).

Against Hobbesian egoism a number of British moralists preeminently Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Hume argued that, while a judgment of virtue is a matter of taking pleasure in response to an action or trait, the pleasure is disinterested, by which they meant that it is not self-interested (Cooper 1711, 220 223; Hutcheson 1725, 9, 25 26; Hume 1751, 218 232, 295 302).

Others believe the action or trait need be up to the agent only in the sense that it follows from the agent's desires/emotions/beliefs in such a way that had she decided otherwise, she would have done or been otherwise.

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