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[1] To be brief, Aristotle recognized a danger in ethical reflection. As he clearly points out, one must be brought up well, and be committed to a life of virtue, if one is to gain a reflective understanding of ethics. At the same time, the ethics of someone not brought up well might actually be undermined by an examination of the centrality of virtue in a good human life. Aristotle, I suggest, was aware of this danger and sought to avoid it by bringing us to the center of his ethical ideas gradually and with some indirection. I have discussed this problem at greater length in a book manuscript entitled, Politics and Reason. |