In the beginning of section one, Kant considers several qualities that Hume has called praiseworthy -- wit, judgment, courage, resolution, perseverance, moderation -- and deems them ambiguous at best, certainly not worthy of esteem by themselves. ... In Kant's view, qualities such as courage, resolution, and perseverance are not worthy of esteem by themselves because they can be harmful and used for evil if the individual that possesses these qualities also possesses a will, or character, that is not good. ... Under what conditions does a generous act have "moral content" for Kant? ......

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Inevitably, Plato believed that justice is a virtue; that there are three parts to the soul with three virtues; wisdom, courage and temperance. ... He proved this by paralleling a "just man" with that of a "just society"; wisdom, the mind or to rule and make decisions, courage, the heart, enforces the decisions, and temperance, the body, the people who follow the rules. ... As well as he had the courage and blatancy to say that only philosophers, who have the excellences of the tripartite soul, are Platonically just and therefore the happiest of people. ... He clarifies that sometimes peopl...

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They are educated from earliest childhood to act in harmony with the four excellences of human nature: wisdom, moderation, courage, and justice. ... Courage appears through their understanding that death should not be feared because they know that the essence of things, like human souls, is eternal. ... Because of their wisdom and moral character, philosophers cannot enter the political arena. ...

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In a sense Socrates courage in the face of death presents him as a martyr for his philosophies. This act shows us that courage to stand up for what you believe in is a virtue of a good man. Aside from the above examples, the apology is full of various statements by Socrates that hold moral wisdom. ...

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And, for Pieper, God's role in the life of every individual and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, courage, temperance, and love are the ways by which human beings understood truth. ... Of equal importance is the fact that it also makes one moral. ...

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Beginning with children's stories that; although they are false, teach the children values, literature shapes the moral system of the guarders. ... The power of the people will come from courage. ...

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As a lover of ancient history, going to a museum is the only way to fill my experience of the artwork because art gives me a feeling of relaxing and calm. Also, by looking at a painting or sculpture in a book cannot fully experience the artwork until I really see the real painting held within its wa...

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