When we have a compassionate response to a situation, it creates in the receiver a disposition to act in a compassionate way herself, both with the same person or with others.
Moreover, if a person has become habituated to act in certain ways, has developed a disposition to act thus and so, then her actions will tend to be relatively consistent.
In 1878, he relied upon the idea that beliefs are habits of action: when we form a belief, we acquire a disposition to act in some distinctive way.
According to Erpenbeck and Sauter (2013), Shavelson (2011) and Erpenbeck and Rosenstiel (2003), we consider competence being a capability, that means a disposition to act in complex, dynamic and unpredictable situations on basis of self-organization.
In an episode of my radio program, The Life of Universal Loving, entitled "The Perfections and the Virtues: What's the Difference," I explained that a virtue is a disposition to act, think and/or feel in particular types of circumstance as persons of good character would act, think and/or feel.
A virtue is a settled disposition to act in a certain way; justice, for instance, is the settled disposition to act, let's say, so that each one receives their due.
Propensity to act on an opportunity refers to the innate disposition to act upon one's decisions and depends on one's control perceptions.
By engaging in such a practice he risks the erosion of his moral character; he is undermining his disposition to act honestly.
My disposition to act so as to benefit Cecilia might well be stronger when I am in a good mood than when I am feeling low, it might well be stronger when I am wide awake than when I am very sleepy, might well be stronger when the change in welfare will happen right now rather than in a month, and so on.
One kind of extended body, however, is significantly more complex than any others in its composition and in its dispositions to act and be acted upon.
