Socrates asked "What is virtue?", and could not find anyone that could answer the question.[Meno]
Even with Musar/Medieval Books of Ethics the question still seems hard to answer.
Besides this, he asked, "Can virtue be taught?" If so, then why it is that the children of virtuous people are sometimes not virtuous? If by nature, then it does seem to be from free will.
The books of Musar do a great job in explaining the basic ethics of the Torah, but leave open the basic questions of "How to identify virtue, and to get it after one recognizes it?" Learning Musar would seem to help at least in terms of recognizing virtue. [the mediaeval books of musar show what virtue is and rav israel salanter held by the opinion that by learning these books daily, one comes to virtue. ]
Even with Musar/Medieval Books of Ethics the question still seems hard to answer.
Besides this, he asked, "Can virtue be taught?" If so, then why it is that the children of virtuous people are sometimes not virtuous? If by nature, then it does seem to be from free will.
The books of Musar do a great job in explaining the basic ethics of the Torah, but leave open the basic questions of "How to identify virtue, and to get it after one recognizes it?" Learning Musar would seem to help at least in terms of recognizing virtue. [the mediaeval books of musar show what virtue is and rav israel salanter held by the opinion that by learning these books daily, one comes to virtue. ]
