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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Intellectual virtues
		The epistemic virtues, as identified by virtue epistemologists, reflect their contention that belief is an ethical process, and thus susceptible to the intellectual virtue or vice of ones thought life.
		Virtue epistemology is a collection of recent approaches to epistemology that give epistemic or intellectual virtue concepts an important and fundamental role.
		Virtue reliabilists are concerned with traits that are a critical means to intellectual well-being or “flourishing” and virtue responsibilists with traits that are both a means to and are partly constitutive of intellectual flourishing.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Intellectual-virtues (618 words)

	Happiness
		Not all kinds of intellectual action, however, result in happiness, but only virtuous action, that is, action which springs from virtue and is according to its laws; for this alone is appropriate to the nature of man. The highest happiness corresponds to the highest virtue; it is the best activity of the highest faculty.
		Consequently, for Aristotle the highest happiness is to be found not in the ethical virtues of the active life, but in the contemplative or philosophic life of speculation, in which the dianoetic virtues of understanding, science, and wisdom are exercised.
		Thus happiness is defined in terms of virtue, but of a virtue which is a mere physical or physiological excellence.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/h/happiness.html (2240 words)

	Political Science
		Aristotle did not have a favorite form of regime because the virtue of a regime is contingent upon its political setting.
		This is because virtue causes its possessors to be in a good state, it implies that they will perform their functions well without excess or deficiency.
		For example, craftsmen are led by wealth, not virtue, so they will not be as concerned for the common advantage of the people as much as the virtuous citizen would be, hence craftsmen should not rule.
	remus.rutgers.edu /~jfulton/aristotle/polySci.html (2612 words)

	Chapter VI
		The variety of apt and easy applications he was able to extract from this device, were clearly the chief cause of the great impression it made upon Dee's mind, and of his conviction of its multitudinous mysterious virtues, which certified it, for him, as a genuine discovery of a portion of the divine truth.
		The virtues of the Cross examined in this way are further proved, Dee declares, since from it the word LVX is directly obtainable (115).
		Thus, he says, clouds ascend by virtue of fire against "Nature," since water is heavier than air in its normal "form"; "et cum venit ad locu perpetui frigorus, in quo frigidatas superat caliditate tunc Nubes converitur in aqua; virtute sua frigidatus inspissantias" and rain results (205).
	www.johndee.org /calder/html/Calder6.html (6102 words)

	The Builder Magazine - August 1919
		Virtue is never negative and a boy is held from idleness or vice by giving him something better to work at.
		These virtues are illustrated and their practice recommended to him at every step in his progress; and his instruction, though continually varied in its mode, is so constantly repeated as infallibly to impress upon his mind their absolute necessity in the constitution of a good Mason.
		Demeter and the art of tillage signifies the descent of intellect into the realms of generation and becomes the greatest benefit and ornament which a material nature is capable of receiving: without the participation of intellect in the lower regions of matter nothing but an irrational soul and a brutal life would subsist.
	www.phoenixmasonry.org /the_builder_1919_august.htm (13471 words)

	Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato, Thomas Taylor - Section 2 of 3 - Book Club/Philosophy - ArcaMax ...
		This power, as Jamblichus beautifully observes, groups upon, as it were, and fashions all the powers of the soul; exciting in opinion the illuminations from the senses, and fixing in that life which is extended with body, the impressions which descend from intellect.
		For as the shadows in the cave correspond to the shadows of visible objects, and visible objects are the immediate images of dianoetic forms, or those ideas which the soul essentially participates, it is evident that the objects from which these shadows are formed must correspond to such as are dianoetic.
		It is requisite, therefore, that the dianoetic power exercising itself in these, should draw forth the principles of these from their latent retreats, and should contemplate them not in images, but as subsisting in herself in impartible involution.
	www.arcamax.com /philosophy/b-1377-2 (8212 words)

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		Religion is an aid to virtue inasmuch as it teaches that the world is ruled by an all-loving and all-protecting God, thus confirming the aesthetic concept of the universe as a harmony.
		Positive religion, however, is a hindrance to virtue in so far as it promises heavenly rewards, thus making men mercenary and selfish.
		Shaftesbury, Hutcheson, and Smith, by reducing the subjective criterion of morality to feeling or sympathy, subverted the established idea of conscience as a dianoetic, or inferential, subjective norm, and substituted for it something which may be called an aesthetic or intuitional criterion.
	humanitiesweb.org /human.php?s=s&p=i&ID=1710 (1418 words)

	METAPHYSICAL PHILOSOPHY II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In regard to this, Aristotle teaches that two kinds of virtues are necessary: (1) dianoetical virtues, which concern the perfection of mind; and (2) ethical virtues, which concern sensitive tendencies.
		Virtue means living according to reason, and reason tells us that all that happens must happen in order to actuate a superior good willed by God (who is immanently conceived).
		Dianoetic Virtues: The second grade of catharsis or purification is marked by the function of contemplative virtues.
	www.angelfire.com /nc/HUMMINGBIRD1/PHILO/philo2.html (10732 words)

	The Philosophy of Plotinus
		In man these are the rational and informative virtues; the rational, tending to the formation of ideas, the informative, to the informing of the body.
		They are not evil in themselves, but there is always the danger that they might oppose and rule the higher virtues in man. The practical virtues, such as temperance, fortitude, prudence, and justice, assure us of the practical domination of the sensible world, and open the way toward the operation of the superior contemplative virtues.
		It is the function of the aesthetic virtues to separate these intelligibles from matter and to contemplate them as they exist in the world soul, which is the residence of beauty.
	www.radicalacademy.com /philplotinus.htm (1683 words)

	platonictheology.html
		The sensible by sense, the doxastic [the object of opinion] by opinion, the dianoetic by dianoia, and the intelligible by intellect.
		Nor will any other to whom it belongs to be the leader or curator of certain persons, endeavor to subvert the good of those that follow him, which it is his business lo procure, and with a view to which he disposes in a becoming manner everything belonging to those whom he governs.
		Since the Gods indeed always look to that which is better, and establish this as the end of all their government, but other leaders overlook the good of men, and embrace vice rather than virtue, in consequence of being perverted by the gifts of the depraved.
	myweb.cableone.net /subru/platonictheology.html (14722 words)

	University of St. Thomas - Center for Thomistic Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		There is a virtual philosophy in the course of events, a philosophy which is latent, yet real and deep.
		For this reason, terms which have an appearance of greater abstraction (noetic, dianoetic, paranoetic, etc.) may prevent the danger of spatially imagining and concretizing what belongs strictly to the order of the intelligible.
		If the work of the Thomistic philosopher is, as we have indicated, to push forward to fuller growth and development, to progress, yet to preserve unswervingly fidelity to the tradition, a difficulty immediately presents itself—a difficulty which is insurmountable so long as the attitude of modern philosophy is retained.
	www.stthom.edu /cts/Maritain.html (3758 words)

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		It was felt by many otherwise {28} favorable to the new spirit, that Locke had not laid a sufficiently deep foundation for morality in his account of our idea of virtue, which he derived from mere sensations of pleasure and pain, with the law of God superadded in utter inconsistency with his theory.
		He shows that virtue, as consisting in these affections, is natural to man, and that he who practises it is obeying the ancient Stoic maxim, and living according to nature.
		But Shaftesbury is quite aware that the question of the character of the virtuous act is not the same as that of the mental faculty which looks at it and appreciates it.
	www.deistnet.com /scotphil.txt (14042 words)

	New Page 13 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		With his thunderbolt and flames Zeus destroyed the Titans and from their ashes sprang the race of mankind, who thus possess in themselves something of the Divine Dionysos and something of the Titans, while in virtue of the heart of Dionysos swallowed by Zeus, they are essentially rooted in the Divine.
		For example, he explained the counsel to refrain from intellectual activity as referring to "the natural intellectual operation, not to that which is in us by virtue of the Divine Light." Thus he guarded against the danger of false mysticism.
		At this time the influence of Dionysius on Christian mysticism was supreme and of the highest value, and the work done by Albert in preserving it in an acceptable form gives him a distinguished place in the history of mysticism.
	www.btinternet.com /~southcote/SoW67.htm (6483 words)

	Hesychasm
		Prajna is the dianoetic training of the reasoning, conceptualizing, logical part of the mind into its peak virtue.
		There is a twofold training of the soul's capacities for ethical virtues or praxis, and of the soul's powers for intellectual virtues or theoria.
		The essence of the various forms of dianoetic and noetic training found in the Hesychast tradition, the whole Hesychast pharmacopeia, so to speak, is encapsulated within the Jesus Prayer as one pill that does not require the careful and expert supervision of a great staretz that the other forms do.
	digilander.libero.it /benparker/HESYCHASM/Hesychasm22.htm (6371 words)

	Robert Zoller Web Site (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Nor, again, can the whole of hunting, though it is various and artificial, confer magnificence on the wise man. Nor yet divination, or the interpreting art; for these alone know that which <975d> is asserted, but they do not understand whether it is true or not.
		For, having explored upwards and downwards, I will endeavor to evince to you that which has become apparent to me. For, when the greatest part <989b> of virtue is negligently attended to, it becomes the cause of ignorance, as what we have just now said appears to me most perspicuously to signify.
		For those that are divine and at the same time prudent men, who naturally participate of the other virtues, and who besides this have acquired all such portions of blessed discipline <992d> as we have mentioned, these alone can sufficiently receive and possess all that pertains to a divine destiny.
	www.robertezoller.com /library/l2.shtml (7791 words)

	Ernest L. Fortin
		They are the instrumental virtues of bourgeois society, virtues that are more concerned with the proper functioning of the system than with the perfect order of the soul.
		Important virtues are involved in this process, such as diligence, industriousness, prudence in undertaking reasonable risks, reliability and fidelity in interpersonal relationships, as well as courage in carrying out decisions which are difficult and painful but necessary, both for the overall working of a business and in meeting possible setbacks.
		For such virtues we can be grateful, but it is doubtful whether they will give us all what we could and should have as human beings and Christians.
	www.ewtn.com /library/BUSINESS/FR91405.HTM (3473 words)

	Introduction to the Philosophy and Writings of Plato Page 10
		For the rational soul subsisting as a medium between intellect and the irrational nature, can then only without revulsion associate with the intellect prior to herself, when she becomes pure from copassivity with inferior natures.
		By the cathartic virtues, therefore, we become sane, in consequence of being liberated from the passions as diseases; but we become entire by the reassumption of intellect and science as of our proper parts; and this is effected by contemplative truth.
		For the mathematical sciences, when properly studied, move the inherent knowledge of the soul; awaken its intelligence; purify its dianoetic power; call forth its essential forms from their dormant retreats; remove that oblivion and ignorance which are congenial with our birth; and dissolve the bonds arising from our union with an irrational nature.
	www.web-books.com /Classics/Nonfiction/Philosophy/Taylor_Plato/Taylor_PlatoP10.htm (1254 words)

	dianoetic.htm (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		But Aristotle's intellectual virtues are not mutually exclusive anyway.
		In the final analysis, (and I think this was Aristotle's point) the best person, the one who possesses the well-ordered mind, has cultivated all five of the virtues, and exercises each according to the demands of the question at hand.
		Such an enterprise is vital in a society of free and virtuous persons.
	www2.dsu.nodak.edu /users/jtallmon/dianoetic.htm (722 words)

	Iconologies: Reading 'Simulations' with Plato and Nietzsche
		Granted that the dianoetic intution finds as its object an intelligible (the abstract "image" of the sensible), it was only natural that Plato would choose as the paradigm case, that geometrical or mathematical mode -- as would later Descartes, in the Regulae and in his Discourse on Method.
		Rather, dianoetic understanding is that reckoning or abstract reproduction of the contents of "lower" consciousness -- of "opinion" -- in respect to their essential or eidetic structure, thus adumbrating the intuition of the eidos itself.
		In this case, level four, "noesis" could be accounted for by a progressive abstraction of the contents of dianoetic thought, so as to construct abstract "ideas" or "essences" of virtually anything (and with somewhat different imperatives in mind, this is precisely what the Aristotelian and Cartesian traditions did).
	www.sunysb.edu /philosophy/research/allison_2.html (7675 words)

	Hesychasm: Orthodox Spirituality Compared and Constrasted with Other Religious Traditions \| The Watchful Gate
		As indicated, there is agreement about the nature of the intellectual faculties of the soul (mind) and about the nature of the intellectual virtues of these two faculties in their higher forms of development, which we will not get into detail now.
		Corresponding to the consensus about the various powers of the soul and their developmental possibilities, it is no surprise that there is a superficial agreement about the nature of their training within a spiritual practice.
		And both the practice and the virtues cultivated are roughly the same as those found in Orthodox Christianity.
	strannik.com /watchful_gate/node/13 (6201 words)

	Commentary on the Timaeus of Plato by Proclus 2 - Main
		For those things which he prays to the Gods to accomplish, he himself completes, disposing the whole discourse according to human intellect, but so as to be in conformity to the intellect of the Gods.
		For this is manifested by the words, "that what we assert may especially be agreeable to their divinities, and that in the ensuing discourse we may be consistent with ourselves."
		ut through exhortations, he excites the dianoetic part of the souls of his auditors.
	www.goddess-athena.org /Encyclopedia/Friends/Proclus/Commentary_on_the_Timaeus2_m.htm (4219 words)

	Dictionary of Philosophy
		This process of becoming good develops certain habits of virtues consisting in reasonable moderation where both excess and defect are avoided: the virtue of temperance (sophrosyne) is a typical example.
		In this sense, virtue occupies a middle position between extremes, and is said to be a mean; but it is not a static notion, as it leads to the development of a stable being, when man learns not to over-reach himself.
		Hence the aesthetic aspect of virtue, which is often overstressed by ancient and neo-pagan writers, at the expense of morality proper.
	www.ditext.com /runes/m.html (13458 words)

	ELEUSINIAN MYSTERIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Midnight had set in before Eleusis was reached so that a great part of the journey had to be accomplished by the light of the torches carried by each of the pilgrims and the nocturnal journey was spoken of as the "night of torches" by many ancient authors.
		By virtue of the unwritten laws and customs dating back to the most remote periods the penalty of death was frequently pronounced for faults not grave in themselves, but solely because they concerned religion.
		It was probably by virtue of those unwritten laws that the priests ordered the death of two young Arcanians who had penetrated, through ignorance, into the sacred precincts.
	www.sovereignsanctuary.org.uk /ELEUSINIAN.htm (13057 words)

	Neoplatonism and the Hegelianism
		It was the distinctive virtue of Professor Doull not only to have had the courage needed in the English-speaking world to take Hegel seriously, but to have dared to think in a Hegelian manner.
		He founded a school of thought, centred at the Dalhousie department of classics and spread elsewhere by his students, whose Hegelian inspiration dictates a study of the history of philosophy through a close reading of Ancient and Medieval texts with an explicitly philosophical eye.
		There is an interpenetration of philology and philosophy in this school which is indeed a great virtue, and which is sadly the exception rather than the rule among contemporary departments of philosophy or classics.
	www.swgc.mun.ca /animus/2005vol10/MacIsaac.htm (6931 words)

	Dietrich von Hildebrand - Transformation in Christ
		The magnificent words of Aristotle regarding the dianoetic (cognitional) virtues in the conclusion of his Nicomachean Ethics sufficiently testify to this.
		We may visualize, in contemplation, the contingency of all created beings or the essence of the spiritual person; we may be absorbed in the contemplation of the virtue of purity or of charity.
		The fact that the person we are contemplating by virtue of his love for us actually enters our own personality and pervades our own soul, confers a new dimension on the aspect of communing inherent in contemplation.
	www.ewtn.com /library/SPIRIT/SIPTRANS.HTM (11877 words)

	© POL.it 2005 PSYCHOTERAPY / DOCUMENTO
		On the one hand, I believe that this is a virtue, and, on the other, a defect that I struggle to correct.
		The three virtues have a verb in the singular tense, which could also be sustained in anticipation by the neutral plural (‘these three things’).
		Grammatically, however, this seems to me sustained by each one of these three, as if all three were only one thing (that is why, earlier, I made reference to their triadic relation).
	www.priory.com /ital/perrellaeng.htm (16529 words)

	Classics in the History of Psychology -- Baldwin (1901) Definitions Der - Di
		Statutes may be treated as 'dead letters' by the public, but never are by the courts, except as juries in criminal cases may virtually disregard them, by acquitting a person charged with their violation, not because the act was not proved, but because they consider them as obsolete, and so of no force.
		The hypothetical group of hypothetical units or biophores, by the distribution of which during development the differentiations of the multicellular organism are determined.
		Goodness comes only from the supernatural grace of God; even the natural virtues (or what are called virtues) displayed by the spiritually unregenerate are not recognized as exceptions to this doctrine of total depravity.
	psychclassics.yorku.ca /Baldwin/Dictionary/defs/D2defs.htm (11789 words)

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