Arete

So as I said, Socrates said have people around whom you can discuss virtue with everyday.
To do this you have to participate in the conversation. It can't be a passive activity like reading a book. Why is this necessary? Because we have to consciously make a decision everyday about what to be and do. It's not enough to be aware of some values.
Are there eternally valid values? Even if there are, are there any formulaic approach that allows us to understand how to apply values correctly in every situation? I argue both are not possible. We hence must examine, re-examine are values everyday.
And this is what the intellectual conversation is doing on a large scale. It's not that there is a God that oversees the affairs of men. In the pragmatist view, the best we can hope for is to continuously come up with better suggestions as to what kind of future we want. It works as a cybernetic organism. We develop ourselves through continual feedback.

We must choose wisely everyday of our lives. To build up cultures we must intensify feedback loops. Yet how many companies really invest in this process?
Virtue is the foundation of life in society. Without it we become lost, unstable, failures.
Again, it's not enough to read books. Every moment is unique. Therefore we must continually feed ourselves with feedback and actively engage with it. So then, let us discuss virtue.