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On Virtue


 
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1. Title Title of document On Virtue - The House We Live In
 
2. Creator Author's name, affiliation, country Seth Zuihō Segall; Independent Scholar
 
3. Subject Discipline(s) Religious Studies; Politics; Ethics; Buddhist Studies; Philosophy
 
4. Subject Keyword(s) Greek philosophy; Buddhism; Confucianism; ethics; wellbeing; Aristotle; virtue; wisdom; flourishing; meaningful life; values; materialism; anxiety; culture war; narcissism; tribalism; polarization
 
6. Description Abstract Values arise out of social conditions and change with social circumstances, but that does not mean they are entirely socially contingent. They are also grounded in relatively unchanging aspects of human nature and the universal existential circumstances all human societies must address. Values can have core aspects that are universal to all cultures, as well as phenotypical expressions particular to a time and place. The chapter begins by exploring how values are internalized, reflected on, and refined. Values can be judged as good or bad according to the degree to which they promote individual and collective flourishing. Virtues are constellations of habit and value that promote and partially define flourishing. There can be no definitive list of the virtues, since virtues are partially dependent on the whole-way-of-life that constitutes a culture, but there can nevertheless be a core set of virtues that are common to all cultures—a common thread running through the philosophies of antiquity and the world religions of today. The chapter closely examines three ethical philosophies of antiquity—Aristotelean, Buddhist, and Confucian—to discern their commonalities and differences. It then proposes and examines seven universal moral virtues—courage, benevolence, conscientiousness, temperance, equanimity, truthfulness, and justice—in terms of their relation to flourishing.
 
7. Publisher Organizing agency, location Equinox Publishing Ltd
 
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9. Date (YYYY-MM-DD) 29-Aug-2023
 
10. Type Status & genre Peer-reviewed Article
 
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12. Format File format PDF
 
13. Identifier Uniform Resource Identifier https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/44123
 
14. Identifier Digital Object Identifier 10.1558/equinox.44123
 
15. Source Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) Equinox eBooks Publishing; The House We Live In
 
16. Language English=en en
 
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19. Rights Copyright and permissions Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd