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If a virtuous man does virtuous acts more easily, are his acts less virtuous?
gpt
I don't think anyone argues that someone who acts more easily is *less* virtuous (although people misread Kant as saying this). There is however a vigorous debate over whether acting more easily is *more* virtuous, or whether virtue is actually just a matter of doing the right things, and it's more impressive if you can do the right thing even if it's hard. ("More impressive" doesn't mean "more virtuous," but that's very close.) For the classic sources on this debate, see Aristotle's *Nicomachean Ethics* (in which he argues that the person who feels good about being virtuous is more virtuous than the person who doesn't) and Kant's *Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals* (in which he argues that doing the right thing is what matters, and feeling good about it makes no difference).