Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice; and those who are brilliant at being human (what Christians call the saints) are the virtuosi of the moral sphere - the Pavarottis and Maradonas of virtue.

I say that virtue is really all about enjoying yourself, living fully; but of course it is far from obvious what living fully actually means.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

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