Here is an example of how VE's direction of analysis distinguishes it from standard, non-virtue approaches.
Rawls's conception of justice as an individual virtue is a good example of a non-virtue-ethical account of a virtue, since, as we saw, it treats individual justice as a matter of accepting and complying with independently defended moral/political principles or rules.
The Ten Non-Virtues are traditionally classified into three actions of the body (1 3), four forms of speech (4 7), and three mental states (8 10).
In this blog post, I have discussed some of the reasons why non-virtuous behavior, in general, is regrettable, and in future blog posts I will discuss why particular types of non-virtue are regrettable.
In Tibetan Buddhism moral guidance comes mainly in the form of the 'ten non-virtues' or prohibitions, the first of which, as already discussed, is taking life.
The argument for one definition over the other will have to be made in terms of simplicity, elegance, or some other non-empirical virtue of theoretical constructs.
These objects are non-concrete in virtue of being non-spatiotemporal and causally inert but they are not abstract since they could have been concrete (Linsky and Zalta 1994).
Fourth, in classical views the distinction between moral and non-moral virtues is not particularly significant.
Even so, Kant shows a remarkable interest in non-moral virtues; indeed, much of Anthropology is given over to discussing the nature and sources of a variety of character traits, both moral and non-moral.
I know that it gets harder to believe in the appeal of non-material virtues in our world of monster-size plasma TV sets, Access Hollywood and Donald Trump-ery; hard to believe that we are nothing more than what we have acquired; harder still to believe that we are a part of what we unabashedly used to call the family of man.
The endorsement of immediate melody at the expense of complex invention, of practical ballroom danceability as the touchstone and popular singability as the sine qua non of musical virtue, leads inevitably to an insult.
