This, I think, is what Aristotle, and those who came after him, envisioned. He did not develop this system of Virtue Ethics to show people the lowest bar they had to reach in order to be considered “good”, but rather to show them the beauty, the wonder, that there is in the sky above them, and to get them to reach for it. Let us not be satisfied with the base requirement for virtue. Might we as engineers be ruined for the ordinary, the average, and be stirred up to impact our world for
This, I think, is what Aristotle, and those who came after him, envisioned. He did not develop this system of Virtue Ethics to show people the lowest bar they had to reach in order to be considered “good”, but rather to show them the beauty, the wonder, that there is in the sky above them, and to get them to reach for it. Let us not be satisfied with the base requirement for virtue. Might we as engineers be ruined for the ordinary, the average, and be stirred up to impact our world for