Cardinal virtues

is no common power, there is no law, where no law, no injustice. Force, and fraud, are in war the cardinal virtues.” (Thomas Hobbes) this quote showing that the game between those boys is just like a war, there is no justice and law, and human nature is release. ‘the force and power’ are shows human are naturally evil because the people with cruel are proud to hurt others for fun. ‘Cardinal virtues’ is a key word in this quote, and showing people like to use weapon to hurt others to get what they

To take a stand against those who appose the ultimate good that a virtues Christian life can bring to the world. Having fear is to not trust in God, which is where a Christian’s moral virtues come from. When one stands up for a friend or even a stranger, to protect them at the cost of they’re own well being. This is what the ultimate good is that not only the early Christian church spoke of, but what the early Philosophers’ were explaining. To do what is right for the better of man is the ultimate

When people are asked to voice their opinion about what the word “Indian” truly entails, many refer to the countless stories, photographs, and films particularly related to them. One such group, the Sioux are a great example of the many inaccurate depictions history has burden them with. They are seen first and foremost as savaged killers who took and never gave back. However, with time much has been revealed to show their true characteristics. It was found that they were not people of war and

1820-1860," Barbara Welter discusses the nineteenth-century ideal of the perfect woman. She asserts that "the attributes of True Womanhood . . . could be divided into four cardinal virtues-piety, purity, submissiveness and domesticity." Furthermore, she adds that "if anyone, male or female, dared to tamper with the complex virtues which made up True Womanhood, he was damned immediately as an enemy of God, of civilization and of the Republic" (Welter 152). In Hannah W. Foster's The Coquette, the characters

turns the environment of the house into gloomy place for Proctor. Throughout the play John Proctor has had to perform certain things, which would make many people within the audience question if Proctor was a man of either conscience, character, or virtue. Conscience is a sense of what a person believes to be right and wrong. To form a mature conscience, people must communicate with others, that are considered to have moral wisdom, within communities. According to Richard M. Gula in his book Reasons

exception. Stoicism is, however, best known for its ethics, which states that virtue is the only important ethical concern. Stoics share this idea with Socrates, who believed that “wealth, and every good thing which men have, whether in public, or in private, comes from virtue.” The cardinal virtues that guide Stoic ethics are wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance. Wisdom Wisdom is the primary source of Stoic virtues. Stoicism holds intellect as the main arbiter of what is truly good, and holds

are then the behaviors one attempts to cultivate. While virtue ethics has its strength in focusing on individual characteristics, this can also lead to a couple limitations. First of all, because it is so individualized, this framework does not lend well in taking the social constructs of society into consideration. Another problem with focusing so much on individual virtues is the variances in which cultures view which concepts as virtues. What may be considered a “good habit” in one culture may

reasoning except Nietzshe, who contradicts the others entirely. Plato states that to understand virtue is happiness. In turn virtue suffices for happiness and is necessary. Also he intuits that human reasoning prevails over spirited element or a person?s appetite. Aristotle?s arguments relate with Plato, but he builds more to it and finds his own answers. He agrees that all people desire happiness and virtue is necessary for happiness. In same mind with Plato, Aristotle says happiness comes from perfecting

Christianity beliefs of domesticity and fights to end the gender binary by making contributions towards women entering and competing in the public sphere. In America, a Christian woman was one who embraced and promoted the virtues of true womanhood. Welter (1996) describes the four cardinal virtues a “true” woman should entail: piety, to be devoted to their religion acting as Eve working with God. Purity, to abstain from sexual activity and remain celibate until marriage. Female purity was a powerful thing

Womanhood: A Retrospection on Githa Hariharan’s novel The Thousand Faces of Night. Abstract The present article depicted how far Githa Hariharan had succeeded in picturizing the concept of womanhood and describing the relevance of this concept in the modern Indian society. It attempted to delineate how women dealt with the sanction of space in Indian society. Her novels presented the efforts of patriarchy on women of different social classes and ages particularly the varied responses to the restrictive