Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Bernard Mayo believes that a virtuous person usually does the right thing, but someone who follows moral rules of conduct may not always be a virtuous person.
2. Kant believed that we learn virtue best from positive role models.
3. Kant insisted that trying to learn virtue from role models does not lead to virtue, but to jealousy and resentment.
4. Philippa Foot stresses that having a virtue is not the same as having a skill; it is having the proper intention to do something.
5. Philippa Foot claims that a person who makes an effort to overcome his or her inclination is morally better than the one to whom virtue comes easily.


1. True
2. False
3. True
4. True
5. False

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