Instead, virtue should be understood as any positive sentiment that leads to the happiness of ourselves and others (the “good” qualities a person can possess so to speak). What are Vice and Virtues?Īlthough we can, we shouldn’t just understand “ virtue” as some floating metaphysical form.
That also means we will discuss virtue theories like Aristotle’s Theory of “Golden” Means, Plato’s Theory of Forms, Smith’s Moral Sentiments, Kant’s metaphysics of Morals, Hume empirical theories on morals, the Greek concept of arete, the Christian virtues and vices, the chivalric virtues of the Code of Chivalry, Plato and Aristotle’s ideal city state (and the related “ virtues of the state“), Montesquieu’s “springs” (the virtues as they relate to different types of laws under different types of governments the “ virtues of the laws“) from his Spirit of the Laws, and other longstanding virtue theories pertaining to vices and virtues of all sorts. That means we will discuss a range of “ virtue theories” pertaining to both “ moral virtues” and other types of virtues (such as virtues related to specific “ spheres of life,” such as statesmanship in the political sphere, health in the physical sphere, friendship in the social sphere, etc). We present a list of vices and virtues and look at vices and virtues as understood by philosophers like Aristotle and Aquinas. How to Understand the Classical Vices and Virtues Virtue Theory, Moral Philosophy, and Chivalry as Understood Throughout the Ages
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