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"The Good Life Requires Reaching a Good Equilibrium, a Point at Which the Important Difficulties Are Resolved". [4] "Reason Rather Than Emotions Would Be the Best Indicator of What Would Be a Good Life". [5] "There Is No Real Connection, At Least in This Life, Between True Virtue and a Desirable Kind of Life". [6] "True Virtue is Impeccable". [7]
Sloth is one of the seven deadly sins in Catholic teachings. It is the most difficult sin to define and credit as sin, since it refers to an assortment of ideas, dating from antiquity and including mental, spiritual, pathological, and conditional states. [1] One definition is a habitual disinclination to exertion, or laziness.
Summum bonum is a Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good, which was introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero [1] [2] to denote the fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based — that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life.
Minima Moralia: Reflections from Damaged Life (German: Minima Moralia: Reflexionen aus dem beschädigten Leben) is a 1951 critical theory book by German philosopher Theodor W. Adorno. Adorno started writing it during World War II , in 1944, while he lived as an exile in America, and completed it in 1949.
First page of a 1566 edition of the Aristotolic Ethics in Greek and Latin. The Nicomachean Ethics (/ ˌ n aɪ k ɒ m ə ˈ k i ə n, ˌ n ɪ-/; Ancient Greek: Ἠθικὰ Νικομάχεια, Ēthika Nikomacheia) is Aristotle's best-known work on ethics: the science of the good for human life, that which is the goal or end at which all our actions aim. [1]:
In other words, a single person's life is, ultimately, not important or worthwhile in itself, but is good only as a means to the success of society as a whole. Some elements of Confucianism are an example of this, encouraging the view that people ought to conform as individuals to demands of a peaceful and ordered society.
He appeared on good form Tuesday evening, although his voice was a little raspy. On Wednesday, the pope will deliver his Christmas Day "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and the world) message and blessing.
One reason for its condemnation is that the gorging of the prosperous may leave the needy hungry. [ 25 ] Medieval church leaders such as Thomas Aquinas took a more expansive view of gluttony, [ 25 ] arguing that it could also include an obsessive anticipation of meals and overindulgence in delicacies and costly foods.