Keywords
vice
reason
soul
supreme good
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Abstract
At the dawn of the twelfth century the philosophical view on the morality of scholastic Abelard, represented in his works: Ethics Seu, Nosce te ipsum and Dialogus inter philosophum, Judaeum et Christianum develops in a major way the issue of virtue. Thus we find the beginning of his Ethics... the definition about the customs mentioning that these so-called vices and virtues of the soul dispose us to do right or wrong. And in his Dialogus... both the philosopher’s dialogue with the Jewish and the Christian, try to reveal the basis on these two great religions of mankind and bring an open dispute about the philosophical view based on natural reason. So this essay aims to convey the medieval conception of virtue from the perspective of the XIIth century thinker, regarded by a large majority of philosophers and historians devoted to the Middle Ages, as the largest intellectual in those days.
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