That title is a lie, these aren't actually 'final' and they shouldn't be. What they *are* is a selection of my thoughts as of now, that is my current conclusions. I hope and expect that my feelings and thoughts regarding them will be reevaluated, amended, and considered anew over time. If nothing else I still need to write my essay, something I am holding off on until I am closer to turning in a completed packet, largely because I expect my additional studies will color my perceptions and conclusions.
What strikes me most immediately is how intertwined and dependent each of the virtues are. Integrity is useless without courage and wisdom. Piety is just a word without wisdom and vision. So on and so forth. No virtue can stand on its own, and the one virtue that draws upon all equally is fertility, it requires courage, integrity, wisdom, vision, hospitality, perseverance and even moderation.
To create and become an industrious sensuous person decisions must be tempered with integrity which requires vision, courage, and wisdom. Teaching and sharing fertility with others requires courage, hospitality and perseverance. Finally, to be a fertile person also requires moderation lest that impulse to create, to share, to embrace the sensuous joy in life overwhelm or distract one from duties and responsibilities. No virtue stands alone but highest among these is fertility.
What strikes me most immediately is how intertwined and dependent each of the virtues are. Integrity is useless without courage and wisdom. Piety is just a word without wisdom and vision. So on and so forth. No virtue can stand on its own, and the one virtue that draws upon all equally is fertility, it requires courage, integrity, wisdom, vision, hospitality, perseverance and even moderation.
To create and become an industrious sensuous person decisions must be tempered with integrity which requires vision, courage, and wisdom. Teaching and sharing fertility with others requires courage, hospitality and perseverance. Finally, to be a fertile person also requires moderation lest that impulse to create, to share, to embrace the sensuous joy in life overwhelm or distract one from duties and responsibilities. No virtue stands alone but highest among these is fertility.
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