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Single Idea 8097
[filed under theme 23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 1. Virtue Theory / b. Basis of virtue
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Full Idea
It would be difficult to be scorned and to live virtuously. We have need of support.
Gist of Idea
Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support
Source
Joseph Joubert (Notebooks [1800], 1800)
Book Ref
Joubert,Joseph: 'Notebooks', ed/tr. Auster,Paul [nyrb 2005], p.56
A Reaction
He seems to have hit on what I take to be one of the keys to Aristotle: that virtue is a social matter, requiring both upbringing and a healthy culture. But we can help to create that culture, as well as benefiting from it.
The
15 ideas
from 'Notebooks'
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8093
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Seek wisdom rather than truth; it is easier
[Joubert]
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8094
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The imagination has made more discoveries than the eye
[Joubert]
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8095
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We must think with our entire body and soul
[Joubert]
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8096
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He gives his body up to pleasure, but not his soul
[Joubert]
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8101
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To know is to see inside oneself
[Joubert]
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8099
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The truths of reason instruct, but they do not illuminate
[Joubert]
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8098
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Truth consists of having the same idea about something that God has
[Joubert]
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8100
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Where does the bird's idea of a nest come from?
[Joubert]
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8097
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Virtue is hard if we are scorned; we need support
[Joubert]
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8102
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We cannot speak against Christianity without anger, or speak for it without love
[Joubert]
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8103
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A thought is as real as a cannon ball
[Joubert]
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8104
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What will you think of pleasures when you no longer enjoy them?
[Joubert]
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8105
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We can't exactly conceive virtue without the idea of God
[Joubert]
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8106
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In raising a child we must think of his old age
[Joubert]
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8107
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The love of certainty holds us back in metaphysics
[Joubert]
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