The third class, then, has no specific virtue of its own.
The accusation by Socrates that his interlocutors do not have a specific virtue unless they can provide a logically tight definition for 'what (the specific) virtue is', and the Parmenidian formulation that 'being is' are, for Rosenstock-Huessy, but variants of this mistaken grammatical faith.
Thus a specific virtue like moderation is defined as "the science (epistêmê) of what is to be chosen and what is to be avoided and what is neither of these" (Arius Didymus, 61H).
First, it refers to well-based standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, justice, or specific virtues - such as decency.
It puts me in mind of something the American journalist and essayist Sydney J Harris wrote: "Patriotism is proud of a country's virtues and eager to correct its deficiencies; it also acknowledges the legitimate patriotism of other countries, with their own specific virtues.
What seems to be the case is that customers who used to use the organic label as a kind of proxy for good, sustainable produce now look to the specific virtues that most concern them: seasonality, locality, fair trade or animal welfare.
How healthy to have one or two lay people on the authority, if only to say: "Hang on, what does that mean?" This type of "emperor's new clothes" contribution has been one of the specific virtues perceived by monitoring of the community fund system.
In this two-phased civic education teachers inculcate specific virtues such as patriotism.
Thomas' broad account of virtues as excellences or perfections of the various human powers formally echoes Aristotle, both with regard to the nature of a virtue and many specific virtues.
The debut offering from 11th-generation family glass-meister Maximilian Riedel, the machine-made "O" series' six sizes are designed, like Riedel's much pricier lead crystal stemware, to showcase the specific virtues of various wine types (Cabernet/Merlot, say, or Chardonnay) and certainly stand a better chance of surviving the dishwasher.
Kant has little to say about specific virtues to cultivate regarding the promotion of one's natural and moral perfection, perhaps because there are so many possibilities, with different ones more appropriate to different agents at different times of their lives.
