Topic: Virtue and Vice
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TimelessReader posted a blog entry
Happiness is Resistance to Vice (The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics)
When the thinking man has conquered the temptations to vice, and is conscious of having done his (often hard) duty, he finds...
When the thinking man has conquered the temptations to vice, and is conscious of having done his (often hard) duty, he finds...
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Beneficence is a Duty (The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics)
Beneficence is a duty. He who often practices this, comes at last really to love him whom he has benefited. When, therefore,...
Beneficence is a duty. He who often practices this, comes at last really to love him whom he has benefited. When, therefore,...
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Philanthropy is Overrated (Walden)
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated;...
Philanthropy is almost the only virtue which is sufficiently appreciated by mankind. Nay, it is greatly overrated;...
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Love Thy Farthest (Thus Spoke Zarathustra)
Do I advise you to love of the neighbor? Rather do I advise you to flight from the neighbor and to love of the farthest!...
Do I advise you to love of the neighbor? Rather do I advise you to flight from the neighbor and to love of the farthest!...
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The Supreme Principle of Ethics (The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics)
The supreme principle of ethics (the doctrine of virtue) is: “Act on a maxim, the ends of which are such as it might be a...
The supreme principle of ethics (the doctrine of virtue) is: “Act on a maxim, the ends of which are such as it might be a...
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Know Anyone Worse than Yourself? (Walden)
I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.~Henry David Thoreau, WaldenThis reminds me of a...
I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.~Henry David Thoreau, WaldenThis reminds me of a...
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One Defect Can Corrupt Many Virtues (Hamlet)
So oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them,As, in their birth – wherein they...
So oft it chances in particular men, That for some vicious mole of nature in them,As, in their birth – wherein they...
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Assume a Virtue, if You Have it Not (Hamlet)
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,That to...
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat,Of habits devil, is angel yet in this,That to...
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What Good is Money?(The Republic)
And the great blessing of riches, I do not say to every man, but to a good man, is, that he has no occasion...
And the great blessing of riches, I do not say to every man, but to a good man, is, that he has no occasion...
