Virtuous vices would be the reverse.
Starting from scratch, they made their new billion-gallon upper reservoir, named to distinguish it from the lower reservoir from 79th to 86th, as virtuous a vice as possible.
The virtuous life must exclude vice and lack of virtue, and react to the situations that at every turn demand virtue's activity (SW II: 412 13).
Sprinkle approvingly cites Aristotle's assertion that "traits virtuous in moderation might be vices in absence or excess" ([ 16]: 89).
Conversely, altruism, which Rand characterized as "the placing of others above self, of their interests above one's own," is precisely the negation of virtuous activity and is therefore a fundamental vice.
Shaftesbury also consistently maintained that, in addition to promoting the good of humanity, virtue promotes the happiness of the virtuous person him or herself, and that vice harms not only humanity as a whole but also the vicious person.
So too, virtuous actions can have vicious motivations, and vice-versa.
When the building stops, he says, the cycle by which construction fuels consumption, and vice versa, could be inverted: "the virtuous cycle becomes a vicious one".The trouble with warnings about an overheated Spanish economy is that they are starting to sound stale.
Nevertheless, it is right that Marcus, following Epictetus, recommends refraining from judging 'good' or 'bad' since those describe only virtue and vice and none but the fully virtuous person really knows those (see, e.g., Encheiridion 45).
Yet freer markets with more rules also engender markets in compliance services that can be virtuous and more dominant (more demanded) than markets in vice.
