Assertion: virtue | /r/HasProperty | mean
Facets:
value: between two vices
type: OTHER
value: according to aristotle
type: OTHER
value: “ by its thinghood
type: OTHER
value: by the account
type: OTHER
value: between two extremes
type: OTHER
value: between a tendency
type: OTHER
value: between stinginess
type: OTHER
value: to the wrong kings of people
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: between them
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: Aristotle further argued that each of the moral virtues was a golden mean , or desirable middle ground, between two undesirable extremes (e.g. the virtue of courage is a mean between the two vices of cowardice and foolhardiness).
text: Aristotle argued that a virtue is the mean or middle path between two vices.
text: Classical republicanism in contrast emphasises Tacitus' concern that power and luxury can corrupt individuals and destroy liberty, as Tacitus perceived in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire; virtue for classical republicans is a shield against this sort of corruption and a means to preserve the good life one has, rather than a means by which to achieve the good life one does not yet have.
text: Virtue is a mean, first because it can only emerge out of the stand-off between opposite habits, but second because it chooses to take its stand not in either of those habits but between them.
text: Therefore virtue is not adequately divided into intellectual and moral, as though there were no mean between them.
text: Book II: That virtues of character can be described as means [ edit ]
text: Virtues can be considered the mean between two extremes, as the Latin maxim dictates in medio stat virtus - in the centre lies virtue.
text: Virtue can also be meant in another way.
text: The virtue of generosity is a mean between stinginess and a tendency to give excessively or to the wrong kings of people.
text: For example, the virtue of courage is a mean between the two vices of cowardice and foolhardiness.
text: In the Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle repeatedly states that virtue is a mean.
text: Quantitative relations are so far from any serious human situation that they would seem to be present only incidentally or metaphorically, but Aristotle says that “by its thinghood and by the account that unfolds what it is for it to be, virtue is a mean.
text: According to Aristotle, virtue is a mean between extremes of too much and too little of
text: Third, in viewing virtue as a trait grounded in moral principles, and vice as principled transgression of moral law, Kant thought of himself as thoroughly rejecting what he took to be the Aristotelian view that virtue is a mean between two vices.
text: By contrast, Epicurus holds that virtue is the means to achieve happiness.
text: Aristotle argued that a virtue is the mean or middle path between two vices.