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Sep 2, 2016 · Aristotle defined vice and virtue as: vice is an excess or deficiency of virtue, and virtue is the mean between two accompanying vices that exists within a “sphere”. [9] For example, in the sphere of “getting and spending”, “charity” is the virtuous mean (the balance) between “greed” and “wasteful extravagance”.
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Vice and virtue are two contrasting concepts that represent the moral compass of individuals. Vice refers to behaviors or actions that are considered immoral, unethical, or harmful to oneself or others. It encompasses traits such as greed, dishonesty, and selfishness. On the other hand, virtue represents qualities that are morally good, ethical ...
Sep 21, 2023 · Virtues are character traits or dispositions about a person that help them be a good overall person. Artistic virtues make one a good artist; social virtues make us likeable to others, and ethical virtues help us to promote flourishing in our own lives and the lives of others. The intellectual virtues are like these—they help us be better ...
Jul 18, 2003 · Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics. It may, initially, be identified as the one that emphasizes the virtues, or moral character, in contrast to the approach that emphasizes duties or rules (deontology) or that emphasizes the consequences of actions (consequentialism). Suppose it is obvious that someone ...
Jan 16, 2015 · Yale University Press, 272pp, £16.99. We like to think morality is timeless and universal but vices and virtues are creatures of fashion and change along with the vagaries of belief. Think of stoicism – the ability to endure hardship, suffering or loss without complaint or visible distress – which a couple of generations ago used to be ...
Virtues lead to punya (पुण्य, [30] holy living) in Hindu literature; while vices lead to pap (पाप, sin). Sometimes, the word punya is used interchangeably with virtue. [31] The virtues that constitute a dharmic life – that is a moral, ethical, virtuous life – evolved in vedas and upanishads. Over time, new virtues were ...
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Jul 9, 1999 · These include virtues in epistemic communities, profiles of specific virtues and vices, philosophizing about epistemic statuses other than knowledge, and explorations of the relations between intellectual virtues and epistemic emotions. 10.1 Intellectual Virtues in Epistemic Communities