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Responsible for one's character?

On the axis: Moral responsibility · the acquired disposition

The drunk man no longer controls himself, but he made himself so, glass after glass: for Aristotle, we impute the disposition one has let grow. Yet to be accountable for one's character, would one not have to have chosen it, and so on to infinity?

Anchors: Aristotle · Galen Strawson