23402 | The highest virtue is achieved without effort [Laozi (Lao Tzu)] |
467 | A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion] |
1663 | By 'areté' Socrates means just what we mean by moral virtue [Vlastos on Socrates] |
13785 | 'Arete' signifies lack of complexity and a free-flowing soul [Plato] |
6015 | Plato, unusually, said that theoretical and practical wisdom are inseparable [Plato, by Kraut] |
34 | The good for man is an activity of soul in accordance with virtue [Aristotle] |
5137 | Many pleasures are relative to a person, but some love what is pleasant by nature, and virtue is like that [Aristotle] |
4342 | Aristotle must hold that virtuous King Priam's life can be marred, but not ruined [Hursthouse on Aristotle] |
4382 | Feelings are vital to virtue, but virtue requires choice, which feelings lack [Kosman on Aristotle] |
54 | Actions are not virtuous because of their quality, but because of the way they are done [Aristotle] |
58 | If virtues are not feelings or faculties, then they must be dispositions [Aristotle] |
4373 | Virtue is the feeling of emotions that accord with one's perception of value [Achtenberg on Aristotle] |
63 | Virtue is a purposive mean disposition, which follows a rational principle and prudent judgment [Aristotle] |
5214 | Acts may be forgivable if particular facts (rather than principles) are unknown [Aristotle] |
5215 | There are six categories of particular cirumstance affecting an action [Aristotle] |
5216 | An act is involuntary if the particular facts (esp. circumstances and effect) are unknown [Aristotle] |
55 | People who perform just acts unwillingly or ignorantly are still not just [Aristotle] |
107 | A life of moral virtue brings human happiness, but not divine happiness [Aristotle] |
5876 | Virtue is different from continence [Aristotle] |
591 | Excellence is a sort of completion [Aristotle] |
5111 | All moral virtue is concerned with bodily pleasure and pain [Aristotle] |
5848 | All good things can be misused, except virtue [Aristotle] |
5853 | The best virtues are the most useful to others [Aristotle] |
2662 | Zeno saw virtue as a splendid state, not just a source of splendid action [Zeno of Citium, by Cicero] |
5966 | All virtue is good, but not always praised (as in not lusting after someone ugly) [Chrysippus] |
6895 | If humans are citizens of the world (not just a state) then virtue is all good human habits [Stoic school, by Mautner] |
6012 | We must choose in which of the virtues we wish to excel [Panaetius] |
5763 | The bad seek the good through desire, but the good through virtue, which is more natural [Boethius] |
3925 | Personal Merit is the possession of useful or agreeable mental qualities [Hume] |
3736 | Virtue lets a rational being make universal law, and share in the kingdom of ends [Kant] |
21411 | A duty of virtue is a duty which is also an end [Kant] |
21413 | Virtue is strong maxims for duty [Kant] |
21414 | The supreme principle of virtue is to find universal laws for ends [Kant] |
6194 | The highest worth for human beings lies in dispositions, not just actions [Kant] |
6198 | Virtue is the supreme state of our pursuit of happiness, and so is supreme good [Kant] |
4184 | Virtue must spring from an intuitive recognition that other people are essentially like us [Schopenhauer] |
4555 | The great error is to think that happiness derives from virtue, which in turn derives from free will [Nietzsche] |
23145 | Virtues are intended to correct design flaws in human beings [Foot, by Driver] |
22402 | Most people think virtues can be displayed in bad actions [Foot] |
22401 | Actions can be in accordance with virtue, but without actually being virtuous [Foot] |
2169 | Greek moral progress came when 'virtue' was freed from social status [Williams,B] |
8058 | Maybe we can only understand rules if we first understand the virtues [MacIntyre] |
12040 | Virtue is a kind of understanding of moral value [Annas] |
20196 | Virtue theory is hopeless if there is no core of agreed universal virtues [Zagzebski] |
20200 | A virtue must always have a corresponding vice [Zagzebski] |
20201 | Eight marks distingush skills from virtues [Zagzebski, by PG] |
20203 | Virtues are deep acquired excellences of persons, which successfully attain desire ends [Zagzebski] |
20207 | Every moral virtue requires a degree of intelligence [Zagzebski] |
4359 | When it comes to bringing up children, most of us think that the virtues are the best bet [Hursthouse] |
23144 | Virtue should be defined by consequences, not by states of mind [Driver] |
23148 | Virtues are character traits or dispositions which produce good consequences for others [Driver] |
23147 | Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver] |
23150 | Control of pregnancy and knowledge of paternity have downgraded chastity [Driver] |