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Ideas for 'Mahaprajnaparamitashastra', 'Four Decades of Scientific Explanation' and 'Academica'

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23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 2. Elements of Virtue Theory / c. Motivation for virtue

2672	Virtues must be very detached, to avoid being motivated by pleasure [Cicero]
	Full Idea: None of the virtues can exist unless they are disinterested, for virtue driven to duty by pleasure as a sort of pay is not virtue at all but a deceptive sham and pretence of virtue.
	From: M. Tullius Cicero (Academica [c.45 BCE], II.xlvi.140)

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / a. Virtues

7903	The six perfections are giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom [Nagarjuna]
	Full Idea: The six perfections are of giving, morality, patience, vigour, meditation, and wisdom.
	From: Nagarjuna (Mahaprajnaparamitashastra [c.120], 88)
	A reaction: What is 'morality', if giving is not part of it? I like patience and vigour being two of the virtues, which immediately implies an Aristotelian mean (which is always what is 'appropriate').