Vice

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Vice

• Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life
• Chapter 6

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Vice, Plutarch

• A pleasant and happy life comes from good
  character.
• There is no true pleasure in vice.
• Reason and virtue bring contentment.

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The Depths of Vice, Augustine

• Augustine recounts an act of theft he committed
  as a youth.
• The motive for the theft was that it was wrong.
• The result of vice is that the individual lives
  in lack.
• True joy is found in God.

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Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, Edwards

• If we do not have genuine faith in Christ, we are
  in danger of everlasting punishment.
• Moral effort is insufficient for salvation.

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The Hypocrites, Dante

• Hypocrites appear happy on the outside, but they
  are burdened on the inside.
• The hypocrite is weary and defeated.

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Self-Deception, Johnson

• Self-deceivers think a single good act is the
  same as being habitually good.
• The habitual faults of self-deceivers are taken
  to be individual lapses.
• To avoid self-deception, we must consult our
  friends and our enemies.
• We learn the truth in adverse times.

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Upon Self-Deceit, Butler

• Good people can deceive themselves (King David).
• We are all partial to ourselves.
• Know thyself.
• We must all be wary of self-partiality and
  self-deceit.

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Jealousy, Envy, and Spite, Kant

• We should morally evaluate ourselves by the idea
  of perfection, rather than by other people.
• Jealousy, grudge, and spite
• Ingratitude, envy, and malice are three vices
  that are the essence of wickedness.

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Kant

• Love and hatred are both reciprocated.
• Haters are damaged by their hatred more than
  those they hate.

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How Much Land Does a Man Need?, Leo Tolstoy

• The life of peasants vs. the life of the wealthy
• The story of Pahom and his land
• The lesson of the story about the nature and
  danger of greed.