I see no reason not to count it a virtue. So, then it must be a virtue says Adams (202). It has bothered me throughout Adam’s book, the many things he considers a virtue or excellent, such as dance, music, and the like. With the great variety of excellences, how can it be something excellent if it is so common?
Adam’s situation-specificity I feel has caused a multiplying of virtues on page 203, he describes the difference between caring about one’s work, and an intellectual’s passion for precision. With this kind of division of virtues, it would be possible to turn nearly anything into excellence for the good
The wide array of virtues, it seems the world is brimming with goodness. Excellences can be found in nearly every person, it has become common. I find that while virtues should not be elitist, it should not be as common as I think Adams allows it to be. At the very end of the book, Adams talks about how it would be just as difficult to improve our situation as it would be for our character. I feel that a part of virtue is an attempt to always improve ourselves, but if virtue is so common then there really isn’t a need.
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i disagree. i find that Adams seems to make virtue easily achievable by anyone. not that it is easy to do but that there are so many ways in which a person can achieve excellence. in fact it would seem that his entire theory is revoliving around the idea that a person can in fact make excellence come from something ordinary because it is something that they have taken the interest in. This speaks to Adams' goal of "being for the good". So what i think he is trying to say is that a person who is for the good can take something like dance and make it into something excellent.
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