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Can virtue be genetically engineered?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 May 2016
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We are not born virtuous or vicious. But we are born with innate temperaments and capacities that influence our acquisition of virtue by learning and judgment. As Aristotle says in the Nicomachean Ethics, “virtues arise in us neither by nature nor contrary to nature; but by our nature we can receive them and perfect them by habituation.”
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- Forum: Genetic virtue, reconsidered
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