Cultivating Virtues Through Practice and Reflection
Develop virtues by practicing kind and generous deeds, inspired by role models like Barack Obama and Malala Yousafzai. Learn to navigate difficult situations with wisdom and reflection on personal strengths and growth areas.
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How did you learn to tie your shoe laces? Or to know your times tables? Practice! Aristotle believed that we need to practice virtue in the same way so, to become kind, we need to practice doing kind deeds. Or, to be generous, we need to practice doing generous things. If we practice, we will get better. image: commons.wikimedia.org
Sometimes looking at the lives of role models can help us to see how to be kind, generous, courageous etc. Barack Obama Florence Nightingale Malala Yousafzai Greta Thunberg Mo Farah Rosa Parks Mahatma Gandhi Choose your own role model, or one of the people above, and write a short explanation of why they are a role model. What virtues have they shown? How? What could we learn from them? images: commons.wikimedia.org
As well as developing individual virtues, it is important to know what to do in difficult situations. You may need to use more than one virtue or you might have to decide which virtue to use. Aristotle called this skills phronesis or wisdom. We will be practising this by looking at moral dilemmas difficult situations that we might come across in real life. You were kicking a football indoors with your sister and she accidentally broke one your mum s favourite ornaments. When your mum sees that it s broken, your sister blames the dog who gets sent to bed.
An important part of the journey to becoming more virtuous is reflecting on what you are already good at and what you would like to develop further.
