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Once again, questions should be asked in this increasingly morally vacuous age: what is “vice” and what is “virtue”? Who gets to decide? On what shall the definitions be based?
Historically, pride has been conceived both as vice and virtue. Pride as vice is close to hubris or vanity. In Ancient Greece, people could be accused of hubris if they placed themselves above the ...
Vice is a bit vain when it comes to its Virtue. The 1,200-employee media company does everything from producing an HBO show to making films, but Vice says it is “incredibly successful” when it ...
Vice or virtueConsistency is defined as ‘reliability or uniformity of successive results or events.’ The dictionary meaning of the word is no different. Consistency is perceived as virtuous (?) ...
Do politicians get more done if they are more prone to virtue or to vice, if they are inclined toward justice and humanity or toward a self-serving social strategy? New research from UC Berkeley shows ...
By the beginning of the American democratic experiment, ambition held within it a duality—a vice or virtue depending on the context and the person. Unsurprisingly, for White, landowning males, ...