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... mean is a characteristic of virtue . " For good is simple , evil manifold . " Chapter 6. Virtue then is a state of deliberate moral purpose , consisting in a mean relative to ourselves , the mean being determined by reason , or as a ...
... mean is a characteristic of virtue . " For good is simple , evil manifold . " Chapter 6. Virtue then is a state of deliberate moral purpose , consisting in a mean relative to ourselves , the mean being determined by reason , or as a ...
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... mean , it is not this extreme but its opposite that we chiefly contrast with the mean . For instance , as foolhardiness seems more like and nearer to courage than cowardice , it is cowardice that we chiefly contrast with courage ; for ...
... mean , it is not this extreme but its opposite that we chiefly contrast with the mean . For instance , as foolhardiness seems more like and nearer to courage than cowardice , it is cowardice that we chiefly contrast with courage ; for ...
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... mean by this , if not that man has a greater dignity than a stone or table ? For we mean that man first exists , that is , that man first of all is the being in the future . Man is at the start a plan which is aware of itself , rather ...
... mean by this , if not that man has a greater dignity than a stone or table ? For we mean that man first exists , that is , that man first of all is the being in the future . Man is at the start a plan which is aware of itself , rather ...
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Socratic Wisdom 2 Bertrand Russell The Value of Philosophy Suggestions for Further Reading Part II Philosophy of Religion Introduction Can we pr... | 1 |
A Critique of the Cosmological Argument | 2 |
The Watch and the Watchmaker | 3 |
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