ABSTRACT
Apart from deliberate initiatives to cultivate character, I believe that “ordinary people” can acquire virtue. By “ordinary people,” I mean people who are not specifically or directly concerned with becoming virtuous, but who have goals or aims the pursuit of which requires them to develop virtue. In this essay, I continue the exploration of ordinary virtue begun in earlier work with an eye to identifying possible pathways by which ordinary virtue can take on the characteristics of full Aristotelian virtue. In the spirit of empirical collaboration, I suggest these pathways of virtue development as testable hypotheses.
