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I'M BEGINNING TO LIKE THIS BLOG ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** YOU CAN TOO  MUSE APPROVED ** Images For Use By Upgraded+ Only ** 30 Day Blogging Challenge PROMPT for January 29, 2020 What is your favorite virtue? Give a few examples like kindness, cleanliness, tact, truth, generosity. Is your favorite one you possess, or one you simply admire in other people? Do you have a strategy to develop it yourself? I'm looking into virtues now. I thought I knew enough about them to get by, but I was surprised by how much I don't know. No, really! So there are the twelve virtues of Aristotle. FROM:Aesthetichealingmindset's Blog Aristotle was a Greek Philosopher, a student of Plato who was responsible for major contributions for metaphysics to ethics, aesthetics, and politics. Aristotle thought that there were two overriding virtues, intellectual and moral. The intellectual virtues he claimed were acquired by inheritance and education and the moral ones through the imitation of practice and habit. The highest virtue, according to Aristotle was intellectual contemplation. In addition, there are an additional 12 virtues that can also be attributed to Aristotle and they are as follows: 1) Courage – bravery and valor 2) Temperance – self-control and restraint 3) Liberality – bigheartness, charity and generosity 4) Magnificence – radiance, joie de vivre 5) Pride – self-satisfaction 6) Honor – respect, reverence, admiration 7) Good Temper – equanimity, level headedness 8) Friendliness – conviviality and sociability 9) Truthfulness – straightforwardness, frankness and candor 10) Wit – sense of humor – meaninglessness and absurdity 11) Friendship – camaraderie and companionship 12) Justice – impartiality, evenhandedness and fairness Then there are the 7 Catholic virtues... FROM:wikiversity The Seven Heavenly Virtues The seven heavenly virtues were derived from the Psychomachia ("Contest of the Soul"), an epic poem written by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius (c. AD 410) entailing the battle of good virtues and evil vices. These seven virtues are: Chastity, Temperance, Charity, Diligence, Patience, Kindness & Humility/humble. I found a list of forty virtues: https://www.familiesofcharacter.com/devblog10809/2018/3/21/what-are-the-40-virtu... Another list I found was one-hundred virtues long, I'll spare you the details. But it made me think... Hmmm, Why do the Catholics only have seven virtues? I'm a confirmed Catholic I know we like to have our virtues, sacraments, commandments, and sins numbered, and I get that! But, why can't we have more virtues? We had forty days and forty nights of this, that, and the other thing! Why can't we have virtues like we had loaves of bread? There was enough for everyone, right. Jesus made the water into wine... He didn't just make seven bottles! I'm just bitter because 'Wit – a sense of humor – meaninglessness, and absurdity' Isn't one of the Catholic Seven. It's almost as if they're saying to me, "We don't appreciate your sense of humor." Well fine then, just for that I'm going to trash your virtues, all seven of them! Chastity - Fuck That! Temperance - You can see where this is going from my response to the first virtue... strike Temperance! Charity - Oh yeah! It's sooooo important that we all be charitable. Ruby Red Shoes! Diligence - I don't even know what that word means, so I'll just keep going until I've completed the list. Patience - For what? What are we waiting for? What? Kindness Humility/humble- That's not even two virtues, it's more like three virtues thrown together with an added forward slash to make it count as two virtues, but it's really only one virtue. You could have added 'sense of humor' and still have only seven virtues. My favorite virtue is 'justice' I've always had a keen sense of fairness, and I'm an 'honesty' is the best policy sort of person. I'm a Libra, not that I believe in astrology, but I do accept the scales of justice as a life-sign. I wanted to be a lawyer at one time. I only wanted to be a lawyer because I really wanted to be a judge. I changed career goals when I learned - 'It's better to be a good garbage collector than a bad lawyer.' I get along very well with people who do not share my sense of fairness because they give me the opportunity to try right a wrong, balance the scales. Honesty is the only MUST HAVE virtue I look for in other people. Maybe virtues are a little dated, look at how long they've been around. I think it's time we ball up all the virtues and simplify discernment down to a question of, "OCD yes or no?" And Yes! It helps if you have a sense of humor. |
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