Character As Moral Creativity
Character As Moral Creativity
Character As Moral Creativity
Human Habits
Man is a creature of habits. He is born with a wide assortment of powers
that open up limitless horizons for development. Reason stands at the apex of
the vast array of potentialities. Man if he must integrate all his powers in one
wholesome personality, must rely on the power of reason. Man must form the
habit of reason.
Habit comes from the Latin word “habere”, meaning “to have”. Habit is
either the disposition to have something, or the disposition to act in a certain
manner. The first is called “entitative habit”, that which disposes a thing to
have a certain nature or quality of being, such as to be beautiful, talented, or
to be obese. The latter is called “operative habit”, that which disposes for
doing something in a certain manner, such as painting, writing, or talking. We
are primarily interested with operative habits, They may be defined as the
readiness to do something.(Agapay)