Comment: There are reasons to love debate on Morality (within the context of Psychology) and theres always cause enough to require reflection upon Antiquitys virtue(s) as humanitarian aid (and safekeeping) are defined through symbiosis and the following: a. Prudence (φρόνησις, phronēsis): also called wisdom, the ability to judge between actions with regard to appropriate actions at a given time, b. Justice (δικαιοσύνη, dikaiosynē): also called fairness, the perpetual and constant will of rendering to each one his right, c. Temperance (σωφροσύνη, sōphrosynē): also called restraint, the practice of self-control, abstention, and moderation; tempering the appetition, and d. Courage (ἀνδρεία, andreia): also called fortitude, forbearance, strength, endurance, and the ability to confront fear, uncertainty, and intimidation. Consider a short article on Thomas Jefferson found @monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-religious-beliefs. Quotation: In correspondence, Thomas Jefferson, sometimes expressed confidence that the whole country would be Unitarian, but he recognized the novelty of his own religious beliefs: On June 25, 1819, he wrote to Ezra Stiles Ely: I am of a sect by myself, as far as I know. Article Abstract: With the help of Richard Price, a Unitarian minister in London, and Joseph Priestly, an English scientist-clergyman who emigrated to America in 1794, Jefferson eventually arrived at some positive assertions of his private religion. His ideas are nowhere better expressed than in his compilations of extracts from the New Testament The Philosophy of Jesus (1804) and The Life and Morals of Jesus (1819-20?). The former stems from his concern with the problem of maintaining social harmony in a republican nation. The latter is a multilingual collection of verses that was a product of his private search for religious truth. Jefferson believed in the existence of a Supreme Being who was the creator and sustain(er) of the universe and the ultimate ground of being, but this was not the tri-une deity of orthodox Christianity. He also rejected the idea of the divinity of Christ, but as he writes to William Short on October 31, 1819, he was convinced that the fragmentary teachings of Jesus constituted the outlines of a system of the most sublime morality which has ever fallen from the lips of man. Hyperlink: monticello.org/site/research-and-collections/jeffersons-religious-beliefs, (Rebecca Bowman, Monticello Research Report, August 1997).
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