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When couples study virtue ethics but struggle to live them digitally

My spouse and I are both academics studying digital ethics, and we've realized our whole relationship has become this meta-conversation about virtue and technology while we order everything through apps and outsource our daily choices to algorithms. We're experts in theory but novices in practice.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Intellectual understanding of virtue meets the practical difficulty of actually cultivating character within technological systems.

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“Where Are You with Confucian virtue ethics and technology?”

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