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Q: What will you do if you handle according to the golden rule. Use the three
steps.
- The teacher asks you to get something in next doors classroom. Lying on the
desk in next doors classroom is the test you will have to do tomorrow. And you
see it! Will you do?
- You really want to have clothes from a specific brand which is expensive.
You know your parents cannot afford to buy them at this moment. Will you do?
- You buy something which is fairly expensive in a department store. The
cashier gives back 10 Euros too much. What will you do?
- You buy a bunch of flowers in the flower shop in your neighbourhood. You
know the owner. The owner gives back 5 Euros too much. What will you do?
Section 4: Virtue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrvtOWEXDIQ&t=302s: virtue (9:21)
A virtue is a good character trait. It is behaviour that is seen as good. and it is a skill
that can be practiced and can be learned. The more virtuous someone is, the nicer it
is to be friends with that person. In the video this was called eudaimonia, which
means human flourishing.
Vice means behaviour in which someone shows a deficiency of virtue or an excess of
virtue.
A list of 52 virtues:
Examples used in the video about virtuosity:
vice
deficiency
virtuous
vice
excess
cowardice courage recklessness
failing to say what need
to be said
honesty
brutal honesty
stinginess generosity prodigality
Chapter 3, Right and wrong _ BC Broekhin, Margot Maassen