What is The Philosophy Of Virtue


	What is The Philosophy Of Virtue

skwirlinator

8-20-2008 11:48 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fcf2f7ad-ced2-4843-b4b5-e0a6450b3ced/3A8B1585-A35B-4225-843D-5891D56EF9F9/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html" href="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html" style="font-size: 11px;">humanknowledge.net</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><B>Virtue Philosophy</B>: the study of how individual persons should
conduct
themselves.
</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><B>Virtue</B>
is any tendency or capacity to choose or behave in a way that is <A href="#good">good</A>.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><UL>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Times New Roman,Times"><FONT color="#000000"><A href="#Wisdom">Wisdom</A>
is the highest virtue.</FONT></FONT></LI>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Times New Roman,Times"><FONT color="#000000"><B>Fortitude</B>
is the capacity to overcome fear and endure misfortune.</FONT></FONT></LI>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Times New Roman,Times"><FONT color="#000000"><B>Temperance</B>
is the moderation of the <A href="#appetite">appetites</A>.</FONT></FONT></LI>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <FONT face="Times New Roman,Times"><FONT color="#000000"><B>Fairness</B>
is the practice of <A href="#justice">justice</A> and the equitable
reciprocation
of <A href="#cooperation">cooperation</A>.</FONT></FONT></LI>
  <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"> <A name="kindness"></A><FONT color="#000000"><B>Kindness</B> is
sympathy
and helpfulness.</FONT></LI>
</UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://humanknowledge.net/Thoughts.html"><FONT color="#ff0000">In Greek philosophy the
first
four of these virtues were known as the natural or cardinal virtues.
Christianity
added the so-called theological virtues of faith, hope, and charity.
Faith
in and hope for divine providence are misplaced. Wisdom entails not <A href="#faith">faith</A>
but <A href="#skepticism">skepticism</A>, and the combination of
wisdom
and fortitude yields an optimism that is better than empty hope. As a
theological
virtue, charity (or love of <A href="#god">God</A>) is also hollow, as
God does not exist.</FONT></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/3A8B1585-A35B-4225-843D-5891D56EF9F9/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>