Philosphers: What is the basis of virtue?

Question

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Answer 1

The choice to think or not to think. Unbreached rationality. Life is the reward of virtue and happiness is the goal and reward of life.

In action: a value is something you act to gain and keep (like a job or your wife) and virtue is the action by which you gain and keep your values. If you think and act irrationally, you will not keep your job or your wife.

Answer 2

Virtue is often found in religious contexts. "Goodness" as applied to the Deity, saints, & persons whose actions are characterized by a surpassing humanity or ethical commitment.
Virtue can also denote qualities or traits that are praiseworthy, including such "virtues" that have nothing to do with morality.
The bases of virtue are subjectively defined. Thus, one can logically say: "There is no basis of virtue."

Answer 3

I am not a philosopher but as far as I can tell virtue is based on a social consensus of the ideal of perfection. A virtuous act is one that has been deemed by society as virtuous based on the current value assigned to the act.
Virtue is an ideal that changes and has no basis in reality.

Answer 4

I have 'experienced' no better description than Meister Eckhart's "the highest virtue is disinterest in creatures (egos)" and Spinoza's assertion that the highest virtue is "intellectual love of nature/god" (reality/universe). I have found the two to be opposite sides of the same coin. A conscious awareness of the ideal (individual concept of the divine/perfect goodness) in the absence of attachment to others.

This is Lao Tzu's state of internal "silence" to which reality conforms.

Answer 5

distinctive characteristic is forgiveness. Forgiving is without precondition except you identify that it relatively is. To forgive is easy interior the experience that it comes from interior - a selection you return up with generally to sooth all of us's harm sensibilities as people. Justice of any form would be painfully long, complicatedexpensiveve and out of economic attain for many. interior the tip it relatively is usually a compromise of types. Justice is a social build. you could forgive without justice. it relatively is generally the case. An "i'm sorry" from somebody makes you have chose to forgive. Please reconsider your questions. desire this helps you.

Answer 6

Personally I feel a strong intuition it has to be based in some supra-sensible, transcendental reality, i.e., God. Just because Plato agrees with me doesn't mean that it's a logically sound argument. it's not waterproof at all. But it's an extremely strong intuition. I find it difficult to imagine how "should" can have any meaning in a materialistic, absurd universe.

Answer 7

Patience is a virtue....
Virtue is a grace....
Grace is a little girl who wouldn't wash her face!

Virtue is an asset. Its moral excellence; goodness; righteousness. Sadly; often lacking in today's world.

Answer 8

"Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep—virtue is the act by which one gains and/or keeps it. The three cardinal values of the Objectivist ethics—the three values which, together, are the means to and the realization of one's ultimate value, one's own life—are: Reason, Purpose, Self-Esteem, with their three corresponding virtues: Rationality, Productiveness, Pride."

Answer 9

Virtue reflects virtue and that can make one happy and satisfied with one's life.

Answer 10

Virtue is precious and more valuable than anything sought or found in this mortal world, wise and beautiful but very rare.. If found, never let it go.....