Vices: What to
do about lower nature?
Right after introducing
the 26 Virtues, the plan is to look at the flip side: vices and
what to do about them.
These
are manifold. Anything that is not Virtue is vice. So with only 26 virtues to go by, just about everything else turns out to be vice. Too bad, eh? Some of the body’s and the
mind’s favourite things are just vices, but as long as you don’t know it, everything’s
fine. You can contine along life's simple path, unaware that anything's wrong. But then it hits you, like it did Dante: “Midway along the journey of our life; I woke to
find myself in a dark wood; for I had wandered off from the straight path…” And then
you start wondering… Who was it, really, who taught me the difference between
good and bad? Did I ever know? Do they change colour like chameleons? What am I supposed to do now that it's almost too late...?
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