# Virtue as the only good

- Id: `virtue_only_good`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/concepts/virtue-as-the-only-good/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `substantive_editorial_draft`
- Content checksum: `8d5cca768283e522b90ce67ed2e80a19d2cc5a95d7ae74381c30b961962f6b4f`

## Summary

Virtue as the only good holds that only the moral quality of judgement and action makes a life genuinely good.

## Overview

In the current corpus, this annotation connects 330 passages across 22 works, including Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios, Eudemian Ethics, Politics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.

## Definition evidence passages

```json
[
    "passage:epictetus.discourses:4.5",
    "passage:socrates.xenophon_memorabilia:4.4",
    "passage:socrates.plato_symposium:212"
]
```

## Aliases

```json
[
    "virtue the only good",
    "virtutem solum bonum",
    "μόνον ἀγαθ",
    "seul bien"
]
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 22,
    "passages": 330,
    "thinkers": 11,
    "traditions": 4
}
```

## Related traditions

```json
[
    {
        "id": "stoicism",
        "name": "Stoicism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/stoicism/"
    },
    {
        "id": "greek-roman-traditions",
        "name": "Greek and Roman traditions",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/greek-and-roman-traditions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "platonism",
        "name": "Socratic and Platonic thought",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/socratic-and-platonic-thought/"
    },
    {
        "id": "skepticism",
        "name": "Skepticism",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/intellectual-traditions/skepticism/"
    }
]
```

## Related works

```json
[
    {
        "id": "aristo.testimonia_fragments",
        "title": "Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios",
        "author": "Aristo of Chios",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristo/testimonia-fragments/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.eudemian_ethics",
        "title": "Eudemian Ethics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/eudemian-ethics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "aristotle.politics",
        "title": "Politics",
        "author": "Aristotle",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/aristotle/politics/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.de_officiis",
        "title": "On Duties",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/de-officiis/"
    },
    {
        "id": "cicero.tusculan_disputations",
        "title": "Tusculan Disputations",
        "author": "Cicero",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/cicero/tusculan-disputations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "epictetus.discourses",
        "title": "Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by Arrian",
        "author": "Epictetus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/epictetus/discourses/"
    },
    {
        "id": "marcus_aurelius.meditations",
        "title": "Meditations",
        "author": "Marcus Aurelius",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/marcus-aurelius/meditations/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.laws",
        "title": "Laws",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/laws/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plato.symposium",
        "title": "Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "plutarch.stoic_self_contradictions",
        "title": "On Stoic Self-Contradictions",
        "author": "Plutarch",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plutarch/stoic-self-contradictions/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.consolatio_ad_helviam",
        "title": "Consolation to Helvia, His Mother",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/consolatio-ad-helviam/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_brevitate_vitae",
        "title": "On the Shortness of Life",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-brevitate-vitae/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_ira",
        "title": "On Anger",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-ira/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.de_vita_beata",
        "title": "On the Happy Life",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/de-vita-beata/"
    },
    {
        "id": "seneca.epistulae_morales",
        "title": "Moral Letters to Lucilius",
        "author": "Seneca",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/seneca/moral-letters-to-lucilius/"
    },
    {
        "id": "sextus_empiricus.outlines",
        "title": "Outlines of Pyrrhonism",
        "author": "Sextus Empiricus",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/sextus-empiricus/outlines/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.plato_symposium",
        "title": "Socrates in Plato’s Symposium",
        "author": "Plato",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/plato/plato-symposium/"
    },
    {
        "id": "socrates.xenophon_memorabilia",
        "title": "Socrates in Xenophon’s Memorabilia",
        "author": "Xenophon",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/xenophon/xenophon-memorabilia/"
    },
    {
        "id": "zeno.svf_1",
        "title": "Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta I: Zeno of Citium",
        "author": "Zeno of Citium",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/zeno/svf-1/"
    },
    {
        "id": "zeno.pearson_fragments",
        "title": "The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes: Zeno Section, Edited by A. C. Pearson",
        "author": "Zeno of Citium",
        "url": "https://prokopton42.com/en/works/zeno/pearson-fragments/"
    }
]
```