Stoics believed it was always appropriate to act virtuously, but acting virtuously can only occur when a man is "perfectly good", and since men are not "perfectly good" then physicians cannot act virtuously, in other words, be morally perfect.
Virtuous persons, on the other hand, enjoy who they are and take pleasure in acting virtuously.
Rather, he simply assumes that a person's success gives him or her conclusive reasons to act, and he argues that success requires acting virtuously.
For many worker participants, this involved being benevolent towards patients, acting virtuously towards them, and softening the coercive stick inherent in the CTO process through attempts to empathize with patients' experience.
As the Nicomachean Ethics shows over the course of its ten books, eudaimonia entails acting virtuously, almost always among others – within a family, among friends and as part of a civil society.
Further, there may even be some good to acting virtuously even if circumstances guarantee a tragic outcome.
What he must have in mind, when he says that virtue makes the goal right, is that deliberation typically proceeds from a goal that is far more specific than the goal of attaining happiness by acting virtuously.
The motive of acting virtuously cannot be the standard or basic motive to virtuous action, since, according to Hume, what makes an act virtuous is its expression of a virtuous motive, which in turn reflects a virtuous quality of character (T 477).
Workers positioned themselves as trying to put themselves in the patients' shoes as a way of acting virtuously towards them, softening the coercive stick approach.
