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	<title>The Four Virtues</title>
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	<description>Answering The Big Questions</description>
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		<title>Dantes Seven Deadly Vices</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ranked in order of severity as per Dante&#8217;s Divine Comedy (in the Purgatorio), the seven deadly vices&#160;are:

Pride (vanity) - an excessive love of self or holding self out of proper position toward God or fellows. Dante&#8217;s definition was &#8220;love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one&#8217;s neighbor&#8221;. In the Latin lists of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Western Ideas of Virtue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Christianity, the theological virtues&#160;are:

Faith
Hope
Charity

From 1 Corinthians 13:13. St. Paul defined these three chief virtues. Christian Church authorities called them the “Three Theological Virtues” because they believed these virtues were not natural to man in his fallen state, but were conferred at&#160;Baptism.
The Four Cardinal&#160;Virtues:

Fortitude&#160;(Courage)
Temperance&#160;(Temperance)
Prudence&#160;(Wisdom)
Justice&#160;(Justice)

 
From Wisdom 8:7
The Seven Heavenly&#160;Virtues:

Faith
Hope
Charity
Courage
Justice
Temperance
Wisdom

 
The Heavenly Virtues combine the four Cardinal Virtues [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Eastern Ideas of Virtue</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtue is also an important concept in Chinese philosophies such as Confucianism and Taoism. Chinese virtues&#160;include:

Humanity
Xiao - usually translated as filial&#160;piety
Zhong - meaning&#160;loyalty.

One important normative value in much of Chinese thinking is that one&#8217;s social status should be the result of the amount of virtue that one could demonstrate rather than by one&#8217;s birth. In the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Virtues Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 01:02:30 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Virtue is the habitual, well-established, readiness or disposition of man&#8217;s powers directing them to some goodness of act. As applied to humans, a virtue is a good character trait. The Latin word virtus literally means &#8220;manliness,&#8221; from vir, &#8220;man&#8221; in the masculine sense; and referred originally to masculine, warlike virtues such as courage. In one [...]]]></description>
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