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Wednesday, September 12, 2012
Cicero: The Cardinal Virtues and their Subparts
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C ICERO HAS NEVER BEEN regarded as a philosophical innovator; rather, he was a philosophical conservative: a traditionalist who handed down...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
Plato: Temperance, Courage, Wisdom Yield Justice
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P LATO'S VIEWS ON VIRTUE APPEAR to have evolved. Initially, he seems to have adopted Socrates's view that virtue was knowledge. So...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Preliminary to a Definition of Virtue: Fortitude and Temperance
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I N AND EFFORT TO UNDERSTAND the concept of virtue we have looked at two of four classical cardinal virtues, prudence and justice. As we po...
Sunday, June 13, 2010
Nature's Complaint: Alan of Lille's The Plaint of Nature, Part 12
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MODERATION, MODERATION, MODERATION. This is Nature's advice on avoiding the vices. This is the wisdom of the ancients. "Nothing ...
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