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cardinal virtues
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cardinal virtues
pl n
(Philosophy) the most important moral qualities, traditionally justice, prudence, temperance, and fortitude


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But to return to Herrmann's essay, a good point he makes is that sophrosyne in Longus' novel, in which it plays a central role and is displayed from the beginning, is itself a mimetic virtue, according to Plato's discussion of the four cardinal virtues in his Republic.
Of the four cardinal virtues, for example--prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance--humility was "annexed" to the virtue of temperance.
It could be said that only those who embody the four cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude can truly reach the level of the heroic.
 
 
 
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