LITERATURE QUESTIONS
MISCELLENEOUS QUESTIONS
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Friendship and benevolence
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Bitterness and revenge
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Hatred and jealousy
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None of these
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Detailed explanation-1: -Friendship and benevolence are the two principal virtues among the Houyhnhnms; and these not confined to particular objects, but universal to the whole race; for a stranger from the remotest part is equally treated with the nearest neighbour, and wherever he goes, looks upon himself as at home.
Detailed explanation-2: -Two principal virtues in Houyhnhnm culture are friendship and benevolence. As a result, war is completely unknown in the Houyhnhnms’ culture.
Detailed explanation-3: -Houyhnhnms. The Houyhnhnms represent an ideal of rational existence, a life governed by sense and moderation of which philosophers since Plato have long dreamed.
Detailed explanation-4: -Human nature is cut into two parts: The Houyhnhnms possess reason and benevolence, and selfish appetites and brutish awareness are left for the Yahoos.
Detailed explanation-5: -the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude.