Dmitry Chernikov’s Blog

I have written on the contrast between fortitude and prudence. It remains to consider the contrast between fear of the law and justice. It would be wrong to seek the difference between our two virtues in “law” and “exceptions from law.” For fear of the law covers all rules, whether more particular or more general [...]

Happiness is virtuous use of one’s own powers. This covers both acting-toward-rest and acting-while-at-rest, as both presuppose a power in some righteous act. But I want to consider a particular kind of happiness, namely happiness in active life. This happiness depends crucially on the four cardinal virtues. Its first part therefore is living according to [...]

The SJ Guardian weapon is contempt; the NF Idealist weapon is temptation. In competent hands they are deadly. Of course, they can be used for evil as well as good. If used for evil, we can summarize them in the character of the devil who is a Function Temperament torturer Artisan deceiver Rational tempter Idealist [...]