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29 giu 2024 · Fortitude is portrayed as a young woman wearing armour over her graceful dress and holding a ruler’s sceptre. In spite of the military attributes, the Virtue alludes to strength and perseverance in the pursuit of good. She is one of the four cardinal Virtues, i.e., the main human virtues.
29 giu 2024 · The panel is part of a cycle of paintings dedicated to the Virtues and commissioned from Piero del Pollaiolo in 1469. The cycle was for the Tribunale di Mercanzia in Piazza della Signoria, Florence and is now in the Uffizi Galleries.
27 giu 2024 · virtue, in philosophy, the conformity of life and conduct with the principles of morality. (Read Peter Singer’s Britannica entry on ethics.) An enumeration of four cardinal virtues is said to go back to Socrates and is certainly to be found in Plato and Aristotle.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
2 giorni fa · It identified six classes of virtues (i.e., "core virtues"), underlying 24 measurable character strengths. The CSV suggested these six virtues have a historical basis in the vast majority of cultures and that they can lead to increased happiness when built upon.
28 giu 2024 · Virtue ethics, Approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue (often conceived as excellence) as fundamental. Virtue ethics is primarily concerned with traits of character that are essential to human flourishing, not with the enumeration of duties.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
6 giorni fa · The view that praiseworthy virtues in their highest form, even virtues such as courage, require intellectual virtue, is a theme Aristotle associates with Socrates; it is portrayed in the Socratic dialogues of Plato.
4 giorni fa · The "moral virtues" (Sanskrit: śīla, Pāli: sīla) group consists of three paths: right speech, right action and right livelihood.
