What is virtue? We learned a little about the nature of virtue in regard to humans. If someone who is unvirtuous does something virtuous, does that make him virtuous? If someone who is virtuous does something unvirtuous, does that make him all together unvirtuous? One opinion I had in the way this worked was… Well, I kind of saw as a point system. A virtuous person is on one end of the spectrum and an unvirtuous person is on the other. A virtuous act done by someone unvirtuous doesn’t cancel out all the unvirtuous things they have done in the past, but it does place them a step closer to being virtuous. However, if they are truly unvirtuous, then it wouldn’t be long until they work themselves back to their end on the unvirtuous spectrum. The same goes for the end if virtue. But then, I asked myself about intention. If something “virtuous” is done by someone unvirtuous, is it still a virtuous act because the person who committed it is supposedly wicked? Which defines virtue, the person or the act?
On another note: Praise God I don't have to work myself up to righteousness, but by his grace I have been made white as snow. [Sorry, I'm in love. :)]
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Wouldn't it be horrible to be Aristotle or plato, who are so brilliant and yet they can never discover the truth because they do not know God. I liked your idea about the graph with virtue and unvirtue and thankfully we do not have to worry about it as christians.
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