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Full Idea
Virtue is concerned with enjoying, loving, and hating in the correct way.
Gist of Idea
Virtue is concerned with correct feelings
Source
Aristotle (Politics [c.332 BCE], 1340a14)
Book Ref
Aristotle: 'Politics', ed/tr. Reeve,C.D.C. [Hackett 2017], p.196
A Reaction
The context is a defence of music as a training of right feelings.
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