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Philosophical concept

Virtue

Virtue names the excellence of a disposition or action. In Stoicism it is sufficient for the good life because it concerns the use of judgement rather than external fortune.

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Virtue names the excellence of a disposition or action. In Stoicism it is sufficient for the good life because it concerns the use of judgement rather than external fortune.

The texts do not all use the term in the same way. For Aristotle, virtue develops through habit and often seeks a mean. For the Stoics, it expresses the coherence of reason acting justly. This page lets readers compare those uses passage by passage without merging them.

Lexical variants: vertu, virtue, virtus, αρετ

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Works where the concept is identified

  1. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Lincoln-Authored DocumentsAbraham Lincoln · 0 passages
  2. Abraham Lincoln Papers: Incoming and Contextual DocumentsCorrespondents and archival record · 0 passages
  3. Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 55 passages
  4. Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 41 passages
  5. MetaphysicsAristotle · 0 passages
  6. Nicomachean EthicsAristotle · 116 passages
  7. PoeticsAristotle · 0 passages
  8. PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
  9. RhetoricAristotle · 0 passages
  10. Aṅguttara Nikāya: Numerical DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  11. Dhammapada: Verses on the DhammaSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  12. Dīgha Nikāya: Collection of Long DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  13. Majjhima Nikāya: Collection of Middle-Length DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  14. Saṃyutta Nikāya: Connected DiscoursesSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  15. Sutta Nipāta: Early Collection of Discourses in VerseSiddhartha Gautama / Buddha · 0 passages
  16. Ancient testimonia on CarneadesCarneades · 0 passages
  17. SVF II: Chrysippus on Logic and PhysicsChrysippus · 0 passages
  18. SVF III: Chrysippus on EthicsChrysippus · 203 passages
  19. AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  20. Brutus, or On Eminent OratorsCicero · 0 passages
  21. Catilinarian OrationsCicero · 0 passages
  22. Letters to AtticusCicero · 0 passages
  23. Letters to FriendsCicero · 0 passages
  24. Letters to QuintusCicero · 0 passages
  25. Lucullus, Book Two of the AcademicaCicero · 0 passages
  26. On DivinationCicero · 0 passages
  27. On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
  28. On EndsCicero · 444 passages
  29. On FateCicero · 0 passages
  30. On FriendshipCicero · 105 passages