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The Local-Virtues Worry

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The local-virtues worry: traits praised as virtues differ across cultures and eras, threatening to make character an accident of address and era.

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Homeric excellence prized battlefield pride; a monastery prizes humility. If the lists disagree this much, whose list is virtue's own list?