The way of virtue leads you down the narrow path of holiness and fulfillment-the golden mean. An intellect armed with knowledge and understanding of them is invaluable to the pursuit of a virtuous life. This is just one example of over a hundred different virtues and opposing vices uncovered in the teachings of virtue. To have courage is to hold the golden mean between the margins of vice of cowardice and recklessness. Imagine you are at the battlefront running into the battle with your fellow soldiers would require courage not running into the battle would be cowardice running into the battle alone, against a hundred enemy soldiers of which you had no chance of defeating, would be recklessness. The opposing vices are the deficiency of courage, which is cowardice, and the disordered excess of courage, which is recklessness. Virtue then, is the golden mean between the margins of vice.įor example, courage is a virtue. For every virtue there are two opposing extremes of vice one vice is a lack or deficiency of a virtue, the other vice is an excess or disorder of a virtue.
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