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There was indeed one distinctively new way open to understand the virtues once they had been severed from their traditional context in thought and practice, and that is as dispositions related in either of two alternative ways to the psychology of that newly invented social institution, the individual. Either the virtues—or some of them—could be understood as expressions of the natural passions of the individual or they—or some of them—could be understood as dispositions necessary to curb and to limit the destructive effect of some of those same natural passions.
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
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