In Aristotle's wake, Thomas Aquinas developed a theory of proportional reciprocity, whereby the just man renders to each and all what is due to them in due proportion: what it is their moral and legal ...
There is a tradition moving back to Ancient Greek philosophy for counting courage or fortitude as one of the four cardinal virtues, along with prudence, justice, and temperance. ("Cardinal" in this se ...
Prudence was considered by the ancient Greeks and later on by Christian philosophers, most notably Thomas Aquinas, as the cause, measure and form of all virtues. It is considered to be the auriga virt ...
Themes of temperance can be seen across cultures and time, as illustrated here.China Confucius encouraged modesty and self-control for the humane life. In the Analects, speaks of those who "choose to ...
The four cardinal virtues appear as a group (sometimes included in larger lists) long before they are later given this title.Plato identified the four cardinal virtues with the classes of the city des ...
It has been argued that ‘systematic’ or ‘programmatic’ political and moral philosophy in the West begins, in Plato’s Republic, with the question, ‘What is Justice?’ According to most contempora ...
There have been many attempts to produce "a universally acceptable definition of law". By 1972, no such definition had been produced. McCoubrey and White said that the question "what is law?" has no s ...
In philosophy, the natural order is the moral source from which natural law seeks to derive its authority. It encompasses the natural relations of beings to one another, in the absence of law, which n ...
The twentieth century saw the development of both law and chaos in art (and art-music) to the point that the end product became unintelligible at an instinctive/emotional level. Many composers saw one ...
The English word truth is derived from Old English tríew?, tréow?, tr?w?, Middle English trew?e, cognate to Old High German triuwida, Old Norse trygg?. Like troth, it is a -th nominalisation o ...
Maat represents the ethical and moral principle that every Egyptian citizen was expected to follow throughout their daily lives. They were expected to act with honor and truth in manners that involve ...
The modern English term that best captures its original meaning is the word vicious, which means "full of vice". In this sense, the word vice comes from the Latin word vitium, meaning "failing or defe ...
According to Morris Massey, values form during three significant periods:imprint period - from birth to 7 yearsmodelling period - from 8 to 13 yearssocialization period - from 13 to 21 yearsPersonal v ...
The principle of any effect is the cause that produces it.Depending on the way the cause is understood, the basic law governing that cause may acquire some distinction in its expression.Principle of c ...
Ethical value may be regarded as a study under ethics, which, in turn, may be grouped as philosophy. Similar to that ethics may be regarded as a subfield of philosophy, ethical value may be regarded a ...
