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13 Sept 1814
Logic or Ethics Ch. Aristotelian Virtues
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So much for the notice to be attached to the word virtue.
Reader, The account above given of it Does it fail of being satisfactory to you? Turn to
the Oxford and Compend, and there you will see a variety of other no want of other accounts
other accounts in considerable number and variety —
pick and choose.
p. 39
1. Virtue Moral virtue in general is an elective habit, consisting in mediocrity
{or in a medium} in regard to ourselves, and
as a prudent man would prescribe it.
2. Virtue consists in the conformity of our actions
to the divine will.
3. Virtue consists in the conformity of our actions
to right reason
4. Virtue inasmuch in forasmuch as both those
points of conformities consist both of them in a certain mean
medium or middle, consisteth doth itself consist in mediocrity.
☞ Go on givin with Med. Arithm. & Geom. p. 40.
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