What is virtue?
philosophy
Description
L. What is virtue?
a. Stop making many out of one like people who break things (77a)
b. Virtue to find joy in beautiful things and have the power to acquire
them (77b)
i. Those who desire beautiful things desire good things
ii. Do all desire good things or do some desire bad (77c)?
iii. Can one know something to be bad and yet desire it? (77c)
iv. All desire what they think to be good but are in fact bad (77e)
v. What is bad necessarily harms, which makes miserable, which
makes unhappy
vi. Being miserable is desiring bad things and securing them
(78a-b)
c. Virtue: desiring good things and having the power to secure them (78b)
i. Everyone is the same in terms of desiring
ii. They differ in their ability to secure them
d. The power of securing good things (78c)
i. Health, wealth, office
ii. Justly piously acquiring them (78d)
iii. Acquisition must be accompanied by some part of virtue to be
virtuous
iv. Even if it provides good things it is not a virtue (providing good
is not sufficient for virtue)
v. Providing or not providing is not virtue on its own (79a)
vi. Justice and moderation are parts of virtue
vii. You split up virtue again (79b)
viii. How can we know a part of virtue without knowing virtue
itself?
