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HoP 333 - Difficult to Be Good - Humanist Ethics

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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Aristotle and Vala's Discourses on Morality

Lorenzo Vala argued that virtue is not really a mean between two extremes, but one per extreme. He also argues that there are not four central or cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance. One becomes morally praiseworthy or blameworthy only once the will is involved, he says.

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