"Virtue" is a category;..." I do not know what meaning you intended to convey here.
The capital 'V' could be the result of beginning a sentence
or
it could be reification - the raising of virtue to the level of a moral absolute.
I have learned to beware terms with capital letters; Morality, Altruism, Truth, Spirit, Noble... each of these gets used by those who adopt a Neo-Platonist theory of mind.
[In Plato's parable of the Cave, mind is where the category of the universe intersects his (invented) category of Forms.]
Well, that's silly of him. I do not understand quantum physics, this does not mean that quantum physics is spirit.
(This sounds like a fully general counterargument, which has its own problems...)
"Virtue" is a category;..."
I do not know what meaning you intended to convey here. The capital 'V' could be the result of beginning a sentence or it could be reification - the raising of virtue to the level of a moral absolute.
I have learned to beware terms with capital letters; Morality, Altruism, Truth, Spirit, Noble... each of these gets used by those who adopt a Neo-Platonist theory of mind.
[In Plato's parable of the Cave, mind is where the category of the universe intersects his (invented) category of Forms.]
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