The first of the Five Precepts is an undertaking not to kill. This precept provides a mirror for that which is violent in the human mind and wants to expunge anything displeasing.
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Peace is not an absence of war, it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice.
A quotation from Marcus Aurelius
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.
[Τὴν ὑποληπτικὴν δύναμιν σέβε. ἐν ταύτῃ τὸ πᾶν, ἵνα ὑπόληψις τῷ ἡγεμονικῷ σου μηκέτι ἐγγένηται ἀνακόλουθος τῇ φύσει καὶ τῇ τοῦ λογικοῦ ζῴου κατασκευῇ]
Marcus Aurelius (AD 121-180) Roman emperor (161-180), Stoic philosopher
Meditations [To Himself; Τὰ εἰς ἑαυτόν], Book 3, ch. 9 (3.9) (AD 161-180) [tr. Collier (1701)]
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A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
Joseph Addison (1672-1719) English essayist, poet, statesman
Essay (1711-12-08), The Spectator, No. 243
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“The evil in the world comes almost always from ignorance, and goodwill can cause as much damage as ill-will if it is not enlightened. People are more often good than bad, though in fact that is not the question. But they are more or less ignorant and this is what one calls vice or virtue, the most appalling vice being the ignorance that thinks it knows everything and which consequently authorizes itself to kill. The murderer's soul is blind, and there is no true goodness or fine love without the greatest possible degree of clear-sightedness.”
― Albert Camus
#vonnegut #camus #maga #nightmare #ignorance #vice #virtue
@GhostOnTheHalfShell
I highly recommend this book: https://a.co/d/cp6fgP7
And if you have 20 min, my Inconvenient Truth-like meditation on the subject, viewing the USA like a platform product: https://youtu.be/tUbrn3HhOPg
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The Union Is Strength | Factions Are Death https://buff.ly/yVKRKMs #history #FoundingFathers #union #America #virtue
*Chapter 4 Kural 7 | Palanquin and Bearer: A Story of Power, Virtue, and Fate*
In this gripping tale inspired by Thirukkural Kural 7—*"The fruit of virtue need not be described in books; it may be inferred from seeing the bearer of a palanquin and the rider therein."*—Caspian and Mali fight against an ancient disease, seeking salvation from an old friend, Rajamani. But Rajamani holds an oath that forbids outsiders from entering the chamber that holds the cure. As the lines between leader and follower blur, the weight of virtue is tested. Will Rajamani break his promise to save them, or will fate demand a sacrifice? Dive into this thrilling fusion of storytelling and ancient wisdom.
#Thirukkural #Storytelling #AncientWisdom #Virtue #Leadership #Philosophy
Education must be based on two things: ethics and prudence; ethics in order to develop your good qualities, prudence to protect you from other people’s bad ones. If you attach too great an importance to goodness, you produce credulous fools; if you’re too prudent, you produce self-serving, scheming rogues.
[L’Éducation doit porter sur deux bases, la morale et la prudence ; la morale, pour appuyer la vertu ; la prudence, pour vous défendre contre les vices d’autrui. En faisant pencher la balance du côté de la morale, vous ne faites que des dupes ou des martyrs; en la faisant pencher de l’autre côté, vous faites des calculateurs égoïstes.]
Nicolas Chamfort (1741-1794) French writer, epigrammist (b. Nicolas-Sébastien Roch)
Products of Perfected Civilization [Produits de la Civilisation Perfectionée], Part 1 “Maxims and Thoughts [Maximes et Pensées],” ch. 5, ¶ 321 (1795) [tr. Parmée (2003), ¶ 205]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/chamfort-nicolas/897…
Rep @casten.house.gov wrote a smart, timely thread about what we must do & believe to have our democracy prevail. I've put it into an easier to read article. @seancasten.bsky.social's insights are well worth reading:
davaug.medium.com/virtue-and-t...
#USpol #SeanCasten #law #virtue #democracy
Virtue and the Law
Bluesky SocialRep. Sean Casten (@casten.house.gov)Proudly serving IL-06. Dad, husband, former clean energy entrepreneur. Climate nerd, gun safety & consumer advocate. Member of the House Financial Services Committee and the Committee on Science, Space, and Technology.
Representative @RepCasten wrote a smart and timely multi-post thread about what we must do and believe to have our democracy prevail, and I've put it into an easier to read article. @SeanCasten's insights are heartening and it's well worth reading:
Medium · Virtue and the Law - David August - Medium
"The founders of the American Republic created a system of checks and balances precisely because they knew the dangers of relying on individual #virtue." https://www.liberalcurrents.com/democracy-means-no-one-is-irreplaceable/
Liberal Currents · Democracy Means No One Is IrreplaceableIt would not be undemocratic to remove Eric Adams.
The Courage we desire and prize is not the Courage to die decently, but to live manfully.
Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) Scottish essayist and historian
Essay (1832-05) “Boswell’s Life of Johnson,” Fraser’s Magazine, Vol. 5, No. 28
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Today’s #DailySutta:
AN 3.93 Pavivekasutta: Seclusion
“In this teaching and training, there are three kinds of seclusion for a mendicant. …”
Read the sutta
https://daily.readingfaithfully.org/an-3-93-pavivekasutta-seclusion/?=MDS
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@whknott @ErickaSimone @evoterra
The founding #FirstPrinciples are noble and rooted in #virtue, which was the only thing sons of the #American #Enlightenment valued in the late 1700’s.
Reputation is a function of promise and delivery.
The delivery has fell short since inception.
But the promise?
Huge upside.
GIF
Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors.
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Virtues are dangerous as vices insofar as they are allowed to rule over one as authorities and not as qualities one develops oneself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Perhaps we need, for worldly success, virtues which make us loved and vices which make us feared.
[Peut-être, pour les succès du monde, faut-il des vertus qui fassent aimer, et des défauts qui fassent craindre.]
Joseph Joubert (1754-1824) French moralist, philosopher, essayist, poet
Pensées [Thoughts], ch. 9 “De la Sagesse, de la Vertu, etc. [On Wisdom and Virtue],” ¶ 26 (1850 ed.) [tr. Collins (1928), ch. 8]
Sourcing, notes, alternate translations: wist.info/joubert-joseph/28523…
"As #riches [and #power] increase, #virtue decreases: the one is honoured, the other despised; the one cultivated, the other neglected". Plato, The Republic.
And thus #childish #dinos rule the world.
And we let them.
#consciousnessevolution
@geopolitics @politics
@society @education