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Here is your Saturday Review with a short meditation & contemplation.
Good and Bad Habits
This week’s Saturday meditation comes from Aristotle for Everybody by the American philosopher Mortimer Adler (1902—2001). Adler writes,
Good habits, or moral virtues, are habits of making the right choices among goods, real and apparent. Bad habits, which Aristotle calls “vices,” are habits of making the wrong choices. Every time you make a right choice and act on it, you are doing something that moves you toward your ultimate goal of living a good life. Every time you make a wrong choice and act on it, you are moving in the opposite direction. The virtuous person is one who makes the right choices regularly, time and time again, although not necessarily every single time.
Aristotle believes that virtue plays a unique role in the pursuit of happiness. That is why he regards moral virtue as the principal means to happiness. For Aristotle, you cannot have too much of it. Habits of making the right choices and decisions can never be too firmly formed.
Contemplation Questions (Pick one or create your own!):
What are your habits?
How might your habits lead to flourishing?
This Week’s Meditations…
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Thank you for reading this week; I hope you found something useful.
Until next time, be wise and be well,
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