PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Magnanimity
20 Apr 2016
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Moral goodness can lead to choice, most is voluntary. People with good character will always aim for being good. Courage is an admirable virtue because it involves pain. A temperate person will feel the appropriate amount of pleasure. Liberality: giving the right about of money to the right people. Magnificence: properly spending money (a lot) on public gifts. Magnanimity: quality of a person who knows himself or herself to be worthy of great honors. A magnanimous person knows they"re good, but doesn"t find extreme pleasure in value. Amiability, sincerity, and wit are all social virtues. Distribution of wealth: proportional to merit, good people will receive more than bad people. Rectifactory: unequal distribution, restoring a means in court. Ignorance is only just according to the situation.
