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	Conduct becoming

wildcat

12-13-2007 8:00 PM

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Sixteen centuries ago, in an epic poem called “Psychomachia” or “Contest of the Soul,” a Roman Christian poet named Aurelius Clemens Prudentius described a battle between good and evil waged within every person.
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>It was a powerful idea, particularly the notion that distinct virtues and vices were in conflict: lust versus chastity, gluttony versus temperance, greed versus altruism, sloth versus diligence, wrath versus patience, envy versus kindness, and pride versus humility.
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It's not that simple, of course. Human nature cannot be neatly parsed and paired like Noah's ark-bound animals: “seven deadly sins” matched against “seven holy virtues.”
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Indeed, nothing may be more confounding than the nature of human nature. Why do people behave as they do? Is it genes? Is it the environment? Can we ever know?
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Well, yes and no</P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/2BD74AFA-EDA8-49A6-9FC9-4BFCEDE6BA0B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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