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    Man can acquire virtues or vices through the exercise of ... — Carmelics
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    Man can acquire virtues or vices through the exercise of his own will and choice

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    • 1.Providence grants man the capacity to acquire virtues
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    • 2.The success of acquiring virtues lies in the will and choice made by man himself
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    • 3.Man sometimes uses his rational capacity to obtain vices rather than good and virtues
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    • 1.Divine foreknowledge of all human choices entails that those choices are determined prior to their occurrence.
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    • 2.If virtuous choices are foreknown with certainty, the agent could not have chosen otherwise, undermining genuine voluntariness.
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    • 3.A will that cannot do otherwise cannot be the true source of moral character acquisition.
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    • 1.Aristotle establishes in Nicomachean Ethics II.1 that virtues are formed by habituation rooted in prior natural disposition and social environment.
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    • 2.If character formation depends substantially on unchosen factors such as upbringing and temperament, individual will is a proximate but not sufficient cause of virtue.
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    • 3.Attributing virtue acquisition primarily to individual will misidentifies a necessary condition as the principal cause.
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    ‘Abd al-Latif maintains that the action of God’s providence expresses itself both in the superior and in the inferior world; but if in the first case the relationship between divine providence and the superior world is immediate, in the second case it is mediated by the superior world. The relationship between divine providence and those who receive it, however, cannot be thought of as a causal relationship, since in this case “the noble would come into being because of the ignoble and the earli
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    Providence grants man the capacity to acquire virtues
    The success of acquiring virtues lies in the will and choice made by man himself
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