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Virtuosity (under reconstruction)
Vice and virtue? Are you kidding, Pipster? Who knows? Who cares?
By Pip Wilson (Home)
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Virtuosity, I call this page
Virtue and vice were once important words to people all over the world in their own tongues. And British culture, while having no monopoly on such things, invested much mind power in both. Guns and charity as well.
You might call this page even more of a thought experiment than the other hundreds of Almanac pages. Here's my idea. Unlike many people, I don't try to predict even one second of the future, because I believe it's a fantasy. To repeat myself to you good readers yet again, this is from Microminibliss: "My Swiss mate Regi's aunt and grandmother were killed when an air force jet crashed into their apartment. So the old 'Be Here Now' makes sense. I practise many times a day and feel I'm getting better at it."
As anyone reading the Almanac often would know by now, I'm a dyed-in-the-wool skeptic, or 'sceptic' as we older Aussies were taught to spell, what I firmly believe to be the elegant, intelligent way of thinking and being. Even more since I had my brains beaten in by "at least two carloads" of people (probably males, I surmise), says my former near neighbour who saw me fleeing my home. I tracked her down myself - police maybe didn't. They certainly hadn't track me down for more than ten months after beling left to die. I write on June 18, 2011, and despite my efforts, the police still haven't returned my calls, as "promised" since I was found almost frozen to death in Bellingen on August 6, 2010. We're in winter, again, guys and gals. What have you been doing?
So I don't any longer try to read people's minds and motivations as I did, and I try not to ever say "I shall". I say "I intend" to do things. I intend to gather -- over months, even years, with your help -- as many things as we can fins that are particularly cogent to the
vice/virtue spectrum.I mean quotes, videos, links, poems, historical data ... anything, you see, if it has the Almanac vibe and I can put it in here for our own education and that of others. So far, it's been a funny life of mine, and, as I begin Virtuosity, it couldn't be more important for me. Natch, I include my own near-murder, but also the
Misurata, Libya stuff, as in 1987 I spent a few hours in a lockup near my Misurata hotel. That stuff spurs me on. So, it'll be blank for a few days because my computer's been sick and away, and this one ain't great, and the monitor's been on the blink. I'm hoping that on Tuesday I can get a new one. OK, this intro will stay here for as long as I feel like it (like anything on my site), and it wa here on May Day, 2011, when I commenced this page. I'll upload and see what happens. See also, Virtuosity, the band. It plays around Bellingen and I believe it's great.I'd like to tell a yarn and pose a question. It's a
Chrissy quiz, if you like. I'm not famous for being too quick on the uptake, and this is proof. On a Friday afternoon, a friend offered me a can of Coke, and I was hot and thirsty so I told him my gratitude, had it and drank it. When I had, I was told I could pay for it on Monday. As the year of 2011 unfolds, and the list below grows very much (I intend!), the reader who tells me by email the greatest number of virtues violated by that, will win a carton of Coke from Wilson's Almanac, sent to arrive, anywhere on our beautiful planet by Christmas. As the Almy's had readers from every continent, I better do some quick shuffling, so the closing date for entries is December 1, 2011. Your name will be announced if you win only with your permission. OK, doods and doodettes, I count six now, and will keep trying (not to beat an entrant). I think that the virtues of friendship, frugality, pliability, love, respect and honour took a dive. See what a fantastic quiz this is?!! I betcha thousands of punters try to have that slab on their table! So, get hopping!BTW: Virtuosity might or might not be alphabetical in time to come. I haven't decided yet whether that's actually the best for this particular Almanac page alone (given changes in hardware and software), but I'm considering the question closely.
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Vice is a practice or a behavior
or
habit considered
immoral, depraved, and/or degrading in the associated
society. In more minor usage, vice can refer to a fault, a
defect, an infirmity, or merely a bad habit. Synonyms for
vice include fault, depravity, sin, iniquity, wickedness,
and corruption. The modern
English term that best captures its original meaning is
the word vicious, which means "full of vice". In this
sense, the word vice comes from the
Latin word
vitium, meaning "failing or defect". Vice is the
opposite of
virtue. ... Vice at Wikipedia |
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Virtue (Latin:
virtus,
Greek: ἀρετή "arete")
is
moral
excellence. A virtue is a trait or quality
subjectively deemed to be morally excellent and thus is
valued as a foundation of
principle and
good moral being. Personal virtues are characteristics
valued as promoting individual and collective well
being. The
opposite of virtue is
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(Latin vitium, any sort of defect) is here regarded as a
habit inclining one to sin. It is the product of repeated
sinful acts of a given kind and when formed is in some sense
also their cause. Its specific characterization in any
instance must be gathered from the opposition it implies to
a particular virtue. It is manifest that its employment to
designate the individual wicked act is entirely improper.
They differ as the habit of doing something is distinguished
from the act of that thing. Hence a man may have vices and
yet be at times guilty of no sin, and conversely the
commission of isolated sins does not make him vicious. Such
guilt as he may have contracted in any case is charged
directly to the sinful act, not to the vice. Hence the
teaching of St. Thomas Aquinas that, absolutely speaking,
the sin surpasses the vice in wickedness. Even though the
sin be removed by God the vice, if there was one, may still
remain, just as failure to act in any direction does not
necessarily and straightway destroy the habit which
perchance existed. The habit of sinful indulgence of any
sort is to be extirpated by unrelenting vigilance and the
performance of contrary acts over a space more or less
protracted according as the vice was more or less
inveterate. Obviously this applies to vices antagonistic to
acquired virtues, for so far as the infused virtues are
concerned they can be recovered only, as they were
originally obtained, through the gratuitous bounty of God.
It is interesting to note that according to St. Thomas,
after one has been rehabilitated, in the state of grace and
has received, let us say, the infused virtue of temperance,
the vice of intemperance does not continue formally as a
habit but only as a sort of disposition and as something
which is in process of destruction. (in via corruptionis). Catholic Encyclopedia on vice
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According to its etymology the word virtue (Latin virtus)
signifies manliness or courage. "Appelata est enim a viro virtus:
viri autem propria maxime est fortitudo" ("The term virtue is
from the word that signifies man; a man's chief quality is
fortitude"; Cicero, "Tuscul.", I, xi, 18). Taken in its widest
sense virtue means the excellence of perfection of a thing, just
as vice, its contrary, denotes a defect or absence of perfection
due to a thing. In its strictest meaning, however, as used by
moral philosophers and theologians, it signifies a habit
superadded to a faculty of the soul, disposing it to elicit with
readiness acts conformable to our rational nature. "Virtue",
says Augustine, "is a good habit consonant with our nature."
From Saint Thomas's entire Question on the essence of virtue may
be gathered his brief but complete definition of virtue:
"habitus operativus bonus", an operative habit essentially good,
as distinguished from vice, an operative habit essentially evil.
Now a habit is a quality in itself difficult of change,
disposing well or ill the subject in which it resides, either
directly in itself or in relation to its operation. An operative
habit is a quality residing in a power or faculty in itself
indifferent to this or that line of action, but determined by
the habit to this rather than to that kind of acts. (See HABIT.)
Virtue then has this in common with vice, that it disposes a
potency to a certain determined activity; but it differs
specifically from it in that it disposes it to good acts, i.e.
acts in consonance with right reason. Thus, temperance inclines
the sensuous appetite to acts of moderation conformably to right
reason just as intemperance impels the same appetite to acts of
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Virtue ethics is currently one of three major approaches in normative ethics. It may, initially, be identified as the one that emphasizes the virtues, or moral character, in contrast to the approach which emphasizes duties or rules (deontology) or that which emphasizes the consequences of actions (consequentialism). Suppose it is obvious that someone in need should be helped. A utilitarian will point to the fact that the consequences of doing so will maximise well-being, a deontologist to the fact that, in doing so the agent will be acting in accordance with a moral rule such as “Do unto others as you would be done by” and a virtue ethicist to the fact that helping the person would be charitable or benevolent. Three of virtue ethics' central concepts, virtue, practical wisdom and eudaimonia are often misunderstood ... Virtue Ethics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) |
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