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Massimo Pigliucci on Why Virtue Matters

The Daily Stoic

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Aretha Without Virtue, Is That Where They Come Together?

The Greco-Rumans used the word "virtue" to refer to a kind of excellence that is other regarding. The virtue, the moral virtues are inherently social, they're inherently public," he says. Ethics came from the Greek atos and morality from the Latin, uh, moralists,. So it's exactly the same thing in both cases; you can't do it in a monastery or an air myth.

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