On Habit
On Habit For Aristotle, excellence is not an act but a habit, and Hume regards habit as 'the great guide of life'. Do habits turn us into machines or free us to do more creative things? However, for…
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On Habit
For Aristotle, excellence is not an act but a habit, and Hume regards habit as 'the great guide of life'. Do habits turn us into machines or free us to do more creative things? However, for Proust habit is problematic: 'if habit is a second nature, it prevents us from knowing our first.'What is habit?
Does habit help or hinder the practice of philosophy? Should religious faith be habitual? Why do Luther, Spinoza, Kant, Kierkegaard and Bergson all criticise habit?
If habit is both a blessing and a curse, how can we live well in our habits?In this thought-provoking book Clare Carlisle examines habit from a philosophical standpoint. Beginning with a lucid appraisal of habit's philosophical history she suggests that both receptivity and resistance to change are basic principles of habit-formation. Carlisle shows how the philosophy of habit not only anticipates the