
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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