LITERATURE QUESTIONS
LITERARY THEORY AND CRITICISM
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to have a natural function with which one is born
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to seek the ultimate truth
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do the natural function in the best possible manner
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to teach everyone what you believe in
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Detailed explanation-1: -"Virtues” are attitudes, dispositions, or character traits that enable us to be and to act in ways that develop this potential. They enable us to pursue the ideals we have adopted. Honesty, courage, compassion, generosity, fidelity, integrity, fairness, self-control, and prudence are all examples of virtues.
Detailed explanation-2: -Virtue ethics such as Aristotle’s are naturalistic in the sense that the values they uncover are the virtues supplied by nature itself; morality is understood to be built into our very biology by way of our telos, an end set by nature which sets the shape and point of moral life.
Detailed explanation-3: -Courage is the most important of the virtues, because without it, no other virtue can be practiced consistently, said Maya Angelou to members of this year’s graduating class. “You can be kind and true and fair and generous and just, and even merciful, occasionally, ” Angelou said.
Detailed explanation-4: -A natural virtue too is a capacity for certain emotions and actions, but one that results from the frequent exercise of the corresponding natural character trait toward virtue (e.g., courage). (