Full Idea
A popular view (expressed by Philippa Foot) is that the virtues work to 'correct' for the baser human impulses and motives. …Virtues are solutions to design flaws in human beings.
Gist of Idea
Virtues are intended to correct design flaws in human beings
Source
report of Philippa Foot (Virtues and Vices [1978]) by Julia Driver - The Virtues and Human Nature 1
Book Reference
'How Should One Live? On the Virtues', ed/tr. Crisp,Roger [OUP 1998], p.112
A Reaction
Quite a plausible thought. Not so much design flaws, though, as natural traits of character that suited hunter gatherers but not modern cosmopolitan capitalists. Driver disagrees.
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