They are good only in a negative sense, insofar as they are self-sufficient and thus not subject to the vices of political society.

As Raz points out, it is a necessary truth that there are vices that a legal system cannot possibly have ( for example, it cannot commit rape or murder ).

As Raz points out, it is a necessary truth that there are vices that a legal system cannot possibly have ( for example, it cannot commit rape or murder ).

In satire, vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, and society itself, into improvement.

A " deadly sin " can be either venial or mortal, depending on the situation ; but " they are called ' capital ' because they engender other sins, other vices.

The primary vices are selfishness and anti-social behavior.

The primary vices are those that dissolve self-discipline, such as laziness, gluttony, and indulgent sexuality.

The vices then, are voluntary just as the virtues are.

# The Outer Party work the state ’ s administrative jobs ; they are the middle class, whose “ members are allowed no vices other than cigarettes and Victory Gin ”, and who are the citizens most spied upon, via telescreens and surveillance.

In the Sarvastivadin tradition of Buddhism, there are 108 defilements, or vices, which are prohibited.

Marc Jackson in his book Emotion and Psyche puts forward a new development of what the vices are.

He identifies the vices as what he calls the evil emotions " The fourth group consisting of hate, greed, vanity, envy and cruelty is evil " These vices differ from more traditional accounts of vice because they are not character traits expressed by action but emotions that are felt.

These emotional vices are to be overcome not through suppression but through feeling and cultivating the opposite virtues, as Jackson writes here: " This will diminish the amount of evil by building up the amount of good such that good will become more active and the evil will not have room to be so active, and thus will diminish "

Some theorists claim that they people are punished for indulging in vices such as pre-marital sex or illegal drugs.

In the hellenized form of Gnosticism either all or some of these names are replaced by personified vices.

Finally the Cardinal Bishop of Ostia said: God, who willed your Apostle Peter to hold first place in the inner fellowship of the apostles, that universal Christianity overcome evil, look propitiously we ask on this your servant, __, who from a humble position has suddenly been been enthroned with the apostles on this same principal sublimity, that just as he has been raised to this exalted dignity, so may he likewise merit to accumulate virtue ; in bearing the burden of the universal church, help him, make him worthy and for thee who are blessed may merits replace vices.

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The vices of lust raged in him ; but at the same time he was conspicuous for great energy and military skill.

Vortigern is accused of incest ( a possible or perhaps intentional mistake of Vortigern for Vortipor, accused by Gildas of the same crime ), oath-breaking, treason, love for a pagan woman, and lesser vices such as pride.

Sariel is identified as being the same angel as Saraqael, said in the Book of Enoch to be the fifth archangel, set over spirits who sin in the spirit, change into all virtues, to eradicate particularly widespread vices of a city or a whole district and transform into all virtues, Before the identification of Sariel / Saraqael as the fifth archangel, however, the Book of Enoch identifies Sariel as one of the fallen host's " chiefs of tens.

His best-known Regement of Princes or De Regimine Principum, written for Henry V of England shortly before his accession, is an elaborate homily on virtues and vices, adapted from Aegidius de Colonna's work of the same name, from a supposititious epistle of Aristotle known as Secreta secretorum, and a work of Jacques de Cessoles ( fl.

Other stock characters in Menander's plays were the senex iratus, or " angry old man ", the domineering parent who tries to thwart his son or daughter from achieving wedded happiness, and who is often led into the same vices and follies for which he has reproved his children, the bragging soldier who talked about the number of enemies he killed and how well they'll treat their woman and the kind shrewd prostitute who hid her heart behind a facade of fierce commercialism.

The following night on Raw, Jericho earned a match against Punk at WrestleMania XXVIII, and in a bid to psychologically unsettle him, he revealed Punk's father was an alcoholic and alleged that his sister was a drug addict, asserting that Punk's straight edge philosophy was paranoia to avoid the same vices and vowing to make Punk turn to alcohol by winning the title from him.

Around the same time Tifa started drinking and abusing drugs, two vices that would plague him severely later in life.

The poet Dante Alighieri listed the following seven deadly vices associating them structurally as flaws in the soul's inherent capacity for goodness as made in the Divine Image yet perverted by the Fall:

Despite the fact that seven virtues defeat seven vices, these are not the canonical seven deadly sins, nor the three theological and four cardinal virtues.

In Roman Catholic theology, the " Capital vices " or sins, also known as the " Seven deadly sins " are the main roots of sin.

The seven deadly virtues were derived from the Psychomachia (" Contest of the Soul "), an epic poem written by Aurelius Clemens Prudentius ( c. AD 410 ) entailing the battle of good virtues and evil vices.

In the 1923 movie Jehan is the villain despite Frollo's numerous sins of lechery, failed alchemy and other listed vices.

Other visions, from Christ, Saint Andrew, Adhemar and others, revealed divine anger at the various sins and vices of the Crusaders.

* Adulation of another's grave faults if it makes one an accomplice in another's vices or grave sins, but it is not grave when it only seeks to be agreeable, to avoid evil, to meet a need, or to obtain legitimate advantages.

In his youth Zeluco “ seized it pet sparrow with his hand, and while it struggled to get free, with a curse he squeezed the little animal to death .” Zeluco continually gratifies his vices much to his discredit and dishonor, and, as in The Monk, his sins compound upon themselves culminating in the infanticide of his only son.

The ladders represented virtues such as generosity, faith, and humility, while the snakes represented vices such as lust, anger, murder, and theft.

In the Latin lists of the Seven Deadly Sins, lust is referred to as luxuria, which vices tempt cultivated souls in their ability to direct charity's proper purpose to good things or actions, by indulging excess.

Santideva ( 685 – 763 CE ) wrote in the Bodhicaryavatara ( which he composed and delivered in the great northern Indian Buddhist university of Nalanda ) of the spiritual importance of perfecting virtues such as generosity, forbearance and training the awareness to be like a " block of wood " when attracted by vices such as pride or lust ; so one can continue advancing towards right understanding in meditative absorption.

Books 5-12 are rules on morality, specifically addressing the eight vices-gluttony, lust, avarice, hubris, wrath, envy, acedia, and boasting-and what to do to cure these vices.

Mandeville argued that wastefulness, lust, pride, and all the other " private " vices were good for the society at large, for each led the individual to employ others, to spend freely, and to free capital to flow through the economy.

Mandeville argued that wastefulness, lust, pride, and all the other " private " vices ( those applying to the person's mental state, rather than the person's public actions ) were good for the society at large, for each led the individual to employ others, to spend freely, and to free capital to flow through the economy.

They recommend the faithful not to practice circumcision, to admit the Gentiles, to avoid Jewish and pagan customs, the distinction of clean and unclean foods, the worship of idols, the vices of avarice and gluttony, frequentation of theatres, and taking of oaths.

Whilst greed is a recurring theme in the novel, with many of the episodes stemming from one or more of the characters ' simple desire for food ( be it trolls eating dwarves or dwarves eating Wood-elf fare ) or a desire for beautiful objects, such as gold and jewels, it is only by the Arkenstone's influence upon Thorin that greed, and its attendant vices " coveting " and " malignancy ", come fully to the fore in the story and provide the moral crux of the tale.

In a state of karmic delusion, the individual seeks temporary and illusory pleasure in material possessions, which are the root causes of self-centered violent thoughts and deeds as well as anger, hatred, greed, and other vices.

* In Fortune's Favourites by Colleen McCullough, Verres, while a secondary character, describes his career in detail, since his pillaging of the Samnium during the Social War, from his departure to Asia in the retinue of governor Gnaeus Cornelius Dolabella, where the author describes his vices and immensurable greed, foreshadowing his misgovernment of Sicily, and, in the end, Cicero's energic prosecution.

In the stories, he is presented as a trickster or fool who played practical jokes on his contemporaries, exposing vices at every turn, greed and folly, hypocrisy and foolishness.

" Richardson calls it " part of a tradition of apocalyptic literature that began in the 1870s " including The War of the Worlds: " Usually, this literature shows an England destroyed by alien forces, but in Collier's novel, set in Hampshire in 1995, England has been destroyed by its own vices — greed, laziness, and an overwhelming bureaucracy crippled by its own committees and red tape.

Gilani described it as " the greater struggle " ( jihad ) This has two stages ; first against deeds forbidden by religious law and second against fundamental vices such as greed, vanity, and fear.