:Un-be-bloody-leviable . "'I was merely wanting to participate in a non-sexual orgy of intellectual virtue and learning, but this has been denied to me by self-serving, narrow-minded, superannuated, and above all, nasty people.
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They used as their therapy the " medicina animi ", the " soul s medicine " provided by the cardinal virtues ( in the sequence Prudence-Fortitude-Temperance-Justice ), namely the moral and intellectual virtues with whose " medicine " human beings can be cured of, and are able to prevail over, the opposing vices.
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This style of building up a picture wherein it becomes clear that praiseworthy virtues in their highest form, even virtues like courage, seem to require intellectual virtue, is a theme of discussion Aristotle chooses to associate in the " Nicomachean Ethics " with Socrates, and indeed it is an approach we find portrayed in the Socratic dialogues of Plato.
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As delineated in her model, the virtues are " a deep and enduring acquired excellence of a person, involving a characteristic motivation to produce a certain desired end and reliable success in bringing about that end . " As she sees it, the " characteristic motivation " of an intellectual virtue is the desire for truth, understanding, and other species of cognitive contact with reality.
