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Allegory of Virtue c. 1634 Oil on canvas, 210 x 113 cm Musée du Louvre, Paris Vouet executed this painting for the walls of Château Neuf de Saint-Germain-en Laye. --- Keywords: ----- Author: VOUET, Simon Title: Allegory of Virtue Time-line: 1601-1650 School: French Form: painting Type: mythological
Some modern versions of virtue ethics do not define virtues in terms of well being or flourishing, and some go so far as to define virtues as traits that tend to promote some other good that is defined independently of the virtues, thereby subsuming virtue ethics under (or somehow merging it with) consequentialist ethics.
The virtue of discrimination "is greater than any other virtue; and is the queen and crown of all the virtues". [8] According to Orthodox Holy Fathers, it corresponds to a very high degree of spiritual maturity and requires three renunciations ( Evagrius , [ 9 ] St. John Cassian , [ 10 ] St. John Climacus ): [ 11 ] separation from the world ...
The Paradoxa Stoicorum (English: Stoic Paradoxes) is a work by the academic skeptic philosopher Cicero in which he attempts to explain six famous Stoic sayings that appear to go against common understanding: (1) virtue is the sole good; (2) virtue is the sole requisite for happiness; (3) all good deeds are equally virtuous and all bad deeds equally vicious; (4) all fools are mad; (5) only the ...
Aristotle analyzed the golden mean in the Nicomachean Ethics Book II: That virtues of character can be described as means. It was subsequently emphasized in Aristotelian virtue ethics. [1] For example, in the Aristotelian view, courage is a virtue, but if taken to excess would manifest as recklessness, and, in deficiency, cowardice. The middle ...
[H]is virtue is the consequence of his happiness." [ 1 ] In Nietzsche’s view, that which follows from instinct is marked by being "easy, necessary, free," is good. It is instinct, not conscious effort, which is the hallmark of virtuous behavior.
The genetic fallacy (also known as the fallacy of origins or fallacy of virtue) [1] is a fallacy of irrelevance in which arguments or information are dismissed or validated based solely on their source of origin rather than their content. In other words, a claim is ignored or given credibility based on its source rather than the claim itself.
Virtues lead to punya (पुण्य, [31] holy living) in Hindu literature; while vices lead to pap (पाप, sin). Sometimes, the word punya is used interchangeably with virtue. [32] The virtues that constitute a dharmic life – that is a moral, ethical, virtuous life – evolved in vedas and upanishads. Over time, new virtues were ...