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13 Sept 1814

Logic or Ethics Ch. Aristotelian Virtue

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Of these four definitions — the first make
sense of it, who can: if it meant any thing it would
be that there are exactly two virtues, viz. mediocrity
and prudence, and these two are one

The three others, not to speak of truth and reason reconcile them to one another who
can.

1. The divine will — good yes. But to know on each
occasion to be assured what the divine will is — there lies
the difficulty. Fo Is it to the two Testaments old and
new, or either of them? that we are to look for it. Unhappily
the Old has in some points (but what points?)
been superseded by the New — and both of them to a
degree pregnant with continual doubts, difficulties
and disputes deal in generals.

2. It consists in conformity to the divine will and
to right reason. But Reason according
to those who occupy themselves with most zeal and
assiduity in the discovery of the divine will, Reason
and the divine will or at least the inferences deduced
from it, are everlastingly at variance.

But, besides consisting in conformity to the divine
will and to right reason, it consists in mediocrity.
R Unhappily by from of this new third standard by reference to
this third standard, it appears not seems not easy to say how it is that the abovementioned
doubts and difficulties should be removed or so
much as lessened.

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Date_1	1814-09-13	Marginal Summary Numbering
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