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13 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch. Aristotelian Virtues

1

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.



Identifier: | JB/014/111/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 14.

Date_1

1814-09-13

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

014

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

111

Info in main headings field

logic or ethics

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

e1

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::[prince of wales feathers] mj&l 1811]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

colonel aaron burr

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1811

Notes public

ID Number

4874

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