Virtues Flashcards
What are the 4 different broad areas that we can control?
- Actions
- Impulses
- Endurance
- Distributions
Do you exhibit temperance in action or impulses?
Impulses
Do you exhibit wisdom in action or impulses?
Action
Among the 4 areas that we can control, where does courage fall?
Endurance
Do we do justice in our impulses, actions or endurance?
Distributions
How many virtues represent practical wisdom?
6
What are the 6 virtues of practical wisdom?
- Good judgment
- Good practical overview
- Quick moral sense
- Discretion
- Shrewdness
- Resourcefulness
Define good judgment
how to act to advantage
Define good practical overview
Giving purview of a situation and what can be done
Define quick moral sense
Being able to find the appropriate action in the moment
Define discretion
Considering what is worse and better in a situation
Define shrewdness
Enabling us to achieve an aim in each case
Define resourcefulness
Knowing what to do in difficulties
What are the 4 virtues of temperance?
- Good ordering
- Propriety
- Sense of honour
- Self-control
Good ordering
Of when things should be done
Propriety
Of seemly behaviour, relative to one’s social role
Sense of honour
Careful to avoid just blame
What are the 5 virtues of courage?
- Perseverance
- Confidence
- Magnanimity
- Mental stoutness
- Industry
Perseverance
Sticking to what is judged correctly
Confidence
That nothing terrible can happen to us
Magnanimity
Which makes us above indifferent things
Mental Stoutness
Which presents the psyche to itself as invulnerable
Industry
Of knowing to do what needs doing, undeterred by trouble or pain
What are the 4 virtues of Justice?
- Piety
- Kindness
- Sociability
- Good companionship
