There are many contending definitions of the term Virtue. To be virtuous one must possess Merit, Valor, and have beneficial qualities. One must know and act upon what is good, what is right. Plato expresses in the "Republic- that a person and later a state must aim to achieve the four principal ...

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Edward Westermarck sums up his views concisely in saying, "None of the various theories of normative science can be said to have proved its case; none of them has proved that moral judgements possess objective validity, that there is anything truly good or bad, right or wrong, that moral principles express anything more than the opinions of those who believe in them." ...

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