> You are born into a society with certain expectations and customs. Choosing the slow and simple path turns you into a social recluse with little opportunities for contacts and further development. You may be reading Plato and Aristotle and have no idea what's currently happening in your neighbourhood because of lack of social contacts.
Why do you think engaging with Plato and Aristotle will make you a recluse?
> The path to transformation should be the collective consensus towards new visions of society,
You use a should statement. Why should it be this way? Who has decided this is the way it should be? Also why does there need to be transformation?
> not some individual acts of virtue signalling.
Virtue ethics is also not the same as virtue signalling. Virtues in virtue ethics are for your own benefit. It's even a common point to do good things and not tell other people in e.g. stoic and early christian thought, as doing things to raise your esteem in the eyes of others is prideful and not virtuous.
Why do you think engaging with Plato and Aristotle will make you a recluse?
> The path to transformation should be the collective consensus towards new visions of society,
You use a should statement. Why should it be this way? Who has decided this is the way it should be? Also why does there need to be transformation?
> not some individual acts of virtue signalling.
Virtue ethics is also not the same as virtue signalling. Virtues in virtue ethics are for your own benefit. It's even a common point to do good things and not tell other people in e.g. stoic and early christian thought, as doing things to raise your esteem in the eyes of others is prideful and not virtuous.