Vices need cultivation same as virtues. They’re actually more important. All your goals come from your vices. Your virtues are just guardrails to prevent you from being too much of an asshole along the way. If you just have virtues you’ll mostly be depressed and do nothing.
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This makes no sense. Full virtue by definition must not cause depression and lack of telos
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I’m talking psychology territory not moral philosophy maps. Using virtue/vice labels as shorthand for behavior patterns that have particular cultural valences, not as primitive categories that are expected to make sense in any given moral philosophy.
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“Be careful, lest in casting out your demons you exorcise the best thing in you.”
- Nietzsche
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The virtuous may well do nothing though they surely are not depressed.
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Yeah, I always realized, e.g. -- the 7 deadly sins are just extreme versions of reasonable and usually good things.
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