tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post5688418072069117555..comments2024-03-27T20:37:09.185-05:00Comments on Alexander Pruss's Blog: Virtue, deliberation and contemplationAlexander R Prusshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05989277655934827117noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3891434218564545511.post-47877607990511086082020-04-28T13:51:37.980-05:002020-04-28T13:51:37.980-05:00A.O. Rorty has an interesting argument in her “The...A.O. Rorty has an interesting argument in her “The Place of Contemplation in Aristotle’s ‘Nicomachean Ethics’” that exercises of the moral virtues are partly constituted by contemplation. As it applies to your case, the virtuous friend would contemplate the goods involved in her act, as well as the goods her act is a response to, as she performs it. She may even do so better than the one who thinks about goods for deliberative purposes, since it would be relatively unimpeded.Dan K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/12501817122771728540noreply@blogger.com