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Ahh right https://philosophy.stackexchange.com/questions/106399/in-aristotelian-virtue-ethics-what-is-the-virtue-vice-vice-pattern-for-obtusene https://philoso

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  Now I've got a reread of Aristotle (was it NE?) queued up. My working model of his virtues since the XX has been a cardinal one: Courage ↑ Justice←♦→Prudence ↓ Temperance Where Courage helps us to take risks when they are worthwhile, and Temperance to avoid them when they would be dangerous, while Prudence helps us to act in our own interests, and Justice to act in everyone's interests. (Courage and Temperance are balanced in opposition when a risk is on the efficient frontier; Prudence and Justice when an action is clearly beneficial, but requires either sacrificing personal/ingroup interest to collective, or vice versa) But if much younger me had somehow come up with an interpretation which I can no longer justify when revisiting the text: well, it wouldn't be the first time! (then again, I think it is possible to assign vices to all the corners of the diagram above: for example, "Vigilantism" could be top left.)
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