3 ideas
468 | Musical performance can reveal a range of virtues [Damon of Ath.] |
Full Idea: In singing and playing the lyre, a boy will be likely to reveal not only courage and moderation, but also justice. | |
From: Damon (fragments/reports [c.460 BCE], B4), quoted by (who?) - where? |
21788 | The moral will is self-determining, but the ethical will is met in society [Houlgate] |
Full Idea: Whereas the moral will understands the good to be something which it can recognise or determine by itself, the ethical will acknowledges the good to be something actual which it encounters in the world about it. | |
From: Stephen Houlgate (An Introduction to Hegel [1991], 08 'Freedom') | |
A reaction: I think these two terms have become blurred - or at least I have thoroughly lost track of them. I'm not sure whether it is good to have distinct terms for (Kantian) personal choice and for social expectations. Ethics is what Nietzsche attacks. |
467 | A virtue is a combination of intelligence, strength and luck [Ion] |
Full Idea: The virtue of each thing is a Triad: intelligence, strength, luck. | |
From: Ion (fragments/reports [c.435 BCE], B1), quoted by (who?) - where? |