Ethics and Values / Unit 6 Ethics 269 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Local-Virtues Worry
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The idea
The local-virtues worry: traits praised as virtues differ across cultures and eras, threatening to make character an accident of address and era.
In practice
Homeric excellence prized battlefield pride; a monastery prizes humility. If the lists disagree this much, whose list is virtue's own list?
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