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To: Mr Rogers
Intolerance of evil is virtue.

Aristotle's Nichomachean Ethics, in Human areas involving pleasure and pain, defines Licentiousness as an excess vice, Temperance as a virtue, and Insensibility as a deficiency vice.

In other spheres of human activity, Aristotle's remaining Virtues are ... Courage, Liberality, Magnificence, Magnanimity, Proper Ambition, Patience, Truthfulness, Wittiness, Friendliness, Modesty, and Righteous Indignition.

Regarding Aristotle's remaining Vices, let's call them recommended reading.

131 posted on 03/04/2012 1:08:45 PM PST by OldNavyVet (,)
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To: OldNavyVet

I’ll choose God over Aristotle for defining good & evil.

That does NOT mean we are not ALL sinners. But sin - evil - is to be repented of, not accepted or praised. Roughly half of all births are now out-of-wedlock. That is not good for our society, and the trend is not our friend.


132 posted on 03/04/2012 2:05:49 PM PST by Mr Rogers ("they found themselves made strangers in their own country")
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