ABSTRACT
A methodically and consistently carried out influencing of the construction of moral dispositions is called moral training. Essentially, it consists in getting accustomed to making the correct preference. But how can such influence be brought to bear at all ? Habit, after all, arises through repeatedly carrying out one kind of act while avoiding its opposite. If a person already has a good disposition, he will find it easy to carry out the one and restrain himself from carrying out the other, but if he does not, he will not find it easy. It appears, then, that the habit we wish to enlist as a means to the development of virtue presupposes its own existence. We are threatened with a vicious circle.
