Virtue and vice
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arete · bad and good · good and noble · kakia · kakon · vice · vicious · virtue
in the texts
Cratylus
The words for virtue, wickedness, and evil, which Socrates calls the loftiest height of his inquiry, deriving virtue from ease of motion and wickedness from impeded motion.
Socrates.
Socrates.
we must search for the meaning of the words ἀρετή (virtue) and κακία (wickedness).
Cyropaedia
Moral polarity between noble conduct that leads upward and vice that attracts followers through easy pleasures.
but virtue, leading up hill, is not at all clever at attracting men at first sight and without reflection;
and the good and noble, I think, try to lead only to what is good and noble, and the vicious to what is vicious.
And yet I do not believe that anything in the world is more unfair than for the bad and good to be awarded equal shares.