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Moral Excellence
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Blind Passion is the Root of Suffering
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Self Respect and Justice
Shall we focus on specifics of virtue? Self-respect is a virtue. Without self-respect we cannot understand the reasoning behind any arguments that tell us we should respect others. Self-respect doesn’t have to be taught. Children may not have the set of behaviours we call dignified, but they do naturally respect their own presence and intentions…
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Take Ownership
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Love is Virtuous
Pleasure in life is a virtue. It’s a source of motivation, personal renewal, strength. Pleasure pursued passionately, though, leads to dissipation. Strength without application serves not to foster growth but stifle it, blinds one to the substance of the very life they chose to take pleasure in. This is why we speak of people as…
Category: Virtue
We all have at our heart a drive. An impulse toward life lived positively in as healthy and peaceful a way possible. But in the pursuit of moral excellence, it’s all too easy to sink into hubris. One can knowingly engage in a path of action leading to vice in the pursuit of moral excellence.
To be virtuous is to be vital without being reactionary. The only true virtue is virtue shared. All else is sentiment, and sentiment by itself is blind. Virtue is a necessity, but the necessities are not virtuous.
“Beauty without virtue is like a rose without scent.” Proverb
“People with virtue must speak out; People who speak are not all virtuous.” Confucius