![]() ![]() ![]() For instance, Bob might say “smoking is my biggest vice.” Yet, smoking is an action, not a character trait. This confusion arises in our use of ordinary language. One confusion which should be addressed is that a vice is not an action. Much of this language is also employed in a religious context where it is said that there are “seven deadly sins” or vices and “seven heavenly virtues.” Wherever our familiarity with virtues and vices comes from what is in general agreement is that vices are character traits that we want to avoid and virtues are character traits that we should want to promote or cultivate. ![]() The language of virtue and vice goes back at least to the ancient Greeks who, as we will see later, spent a great deal writing about them. By comparison we can list some virtues including loyalty, bravery, honesty, compassion, humility, generosity and temperance. Each of these is a character trait we find in people which is, on the whole, undesirable. Some of the most commonly referred to vices include greed, anger, lust, envy, gluttony, pride, and sloth (laziness). For example, honesty is a virtue and dishonesty is a vice. The opposite of a vice is a virtue, which is a good or desirable character trait. A vice is a bad or undesirable character trait. ![]()
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