ETHICS

VIRTUE ETHICS

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      Virtue ought to have been the most simple of things to be defined within philosophy, but the word has not yet been given a clarification of meaning, and if virtue is still an unknown to western philosophy after three-thousand years, then western philosophy is not giving an effort to define the word.

      The combining of two unknown words, that of virtue and ethics, does not create a known thing. First define what virtue implies, and also define what ethics implies, and only then place the two words together as if their phrasing might create a rational communication of intention.

      One use of virtue is that of speaking of a thing’s power, as in through the virtue of strength did a man murder his neighbor, but logic screams in defiance that a thing called virtue, that enables a man to commit horror upon other living beings, could possibly be of a similar interpretation of a man whose virtue is measured in love and kindness. If a word has meaning, then the word has meaning, and the meaning is rigid in its definition, and never can the definition be changed willy-nilly.

      ”Know the thing first, and then give it a term, one that is singular, definite, and unchangeable. If a word is given to an unknown, then the word’s definition will be unknown, and never should a question arise concerning the word’s validity.” (excerpt from Logics Origin of Ethics, Morals, Virtue, and Quality)

      It matters nothing if mankind wants to claim that the word virtue has a thousand different definitions, and that each definition applies to how the word might be used in a sentence. Just because mankind prefers to wade within his languages of undefined words, resulting in thousands of years of debating the unknown words, still, there is no necessity that an intelligent man must mimic the same worthless behavior.

      Virtue is the most simple of things to clarify, both of definition and of origin, but the simplicity arises within the first-hand experience of being virtuous, and if western philosophy were an honorable philosophy, then it would teach each student how to achieve, witness, and understand virtue through the student’s own personal experience. Western philosophy, however, believes that it can know all things through a priori day-dreaming.

      There is a humor in a young boy, who, about one-hundred years ago, loudly complained that a restaurant’s employee served breakfast prior to the hours stated within the menu. Many people believe that the young boy grew up to become the world’s smartest man. There exists a difference between the average mind and the prodigious mind, with the average mind choosing to accept inaccurate words as having accurate meanings. Each individual has the choice, to remain within the belief that unknown words have known meanings, or to choose accuracy in thought and words.

      In all things in the universe, all are composed of three or more components. If a person cannot describe in detail three components that create virtue, then the man does not know what virtue is, and if the man does not know what virtue is, then it is impossible for the man to know what virtue ethics might imply.