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I was teaching virtue and knowledge while lying on the side

That fall, the professor taught virtue ethics at her Florida university while an engagement ring sat unopened.
Feeling untethered in Florida, she turned to dance and new social scenes before an official proposal, creating distance that contributed to her loneliness.
Stopping location sharing, she concealed movements from Tyler; she also engaged in late-night dancing and a two-hour drive home at 2 a.m.
When Tyler returned to Florida, guilt about her conduct surfaced, prompting a reckoning, as the author notes small deceptions erode trust.
Framed by Aristotle's theory, the episode shows her failure to call herself out, as she argues self-deception underlies vice and small lies grow from permissions she invoked to explain her conduct.

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