“Kant provides a more helpful answer. For him, these first semblances of virtue can be explained in terms of discipline, in other words, as a product of external constraint: what the child cannot do on his own because he has no instinct for it “others have to do … for him,” and in this way “one generation educates the next.” Politeness Education Book:A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life Source: A Small Treatise on the Great Virtues: The Uses of Philosophy in Everyday Life