Virtue
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Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle taught that virtue is knowledge, with cardinal virtues including wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice, while Xenophanes and Anaxagoras emphasized monotheism and a First Cause. 98:2.6
The Master warned against the dangers of extremism, emphasizing the necessity of balance and proportion in one's virtues. 149:4.3
Virtue is the consistent choosing of good over evil, influenced by moral nature, ignorance, and a sense of proportion in the attainment of cosmic achievement. 16:7.6-7
Virtue is volitional, and righteousness is not automatic in freewill creatures, as a Creator Son is eternally pledged to uphold, protect, defend, and retrieve his personal creation if ever challenged. 21:3.14
In the Urantia Book
Morality is the indigenous virtue of human personality. (16:7.1) | morality
- Ambition is dangerous until fully socialized, virtue is not truly acquired until acts make one worthy. 48:7.19
- The exercise of virtue requires a sense of proportion in distinguishing between good and evil amidst influences like ignorance, immaturity, and delusion. 16:7.7
- Virtue is the consistent choosing of good over evil in the day-by-day life of mortal man, a demonstration of conformity with the cosmos and progression in cosmic achievement. 16:7.6
- Wholeheartedly doing the will of the Father in heaven is the epitome of supreme virtue. 16:7.10