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Virtue tries to swim between moving waves, somewhere in the middle. Generosity is fine, but too much destroys everyone. Wisdom is practical, not pure, and it is confused as the world is confusion. Pure reason is not available (Kant’s impossible view), such as non-pure acting. Equality is not possible, as everyone and everything are different. Environment adaptability is most important.
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Notes
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Ibidem, 139–140.
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T. A. Perry, The Moral proverbs of Santob de Carrión (Jewish Wisdom in Christian Spain), Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1987, p. 72.
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Ibidem, p. 139.
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Sem Tob, Op. Cit., See Ibidem, 141.
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Ibidem, 142–149.
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Ibidem, 150.
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Ibidem, 151–152.
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Ibidem, 153–154.
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Ibidem, 156–158.
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Some commentators make an effort to show that it is not a case of pure relativism: “The source of the false attribution of moral relativism lies perhaps in simple misreading of the text.” T. A. Perry, The Moral proverbs of Santob de Carrión (Jewish Wisdom in Christian Spain), Princeton, New Jersey, Princeton University Press, 1987, p. 108. He continues to argue this in the following pages.
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Sem Tob, Op. Cit., Ibidem, 160.
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Ibidem, 161–163.
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“Ces biens étaient mêlês d’inconvénients; c’est. le sort des choses humaines.” J. J. Rousseau, Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, Paris, Garnier-Flammarion, 1967, VI, Lettre X, p. 552.
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See Sem Tob, Op. Cit., 164–165.
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Ibidem, 166.
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“Je vous l’ai déjà dit autre fois, c’est. un second crime de tenir un serment criminel: si le vôtre ne l’était pas, il l’est. devenu; c’en est. assez pour l’annuler. La promesse qu’il faut tenir sans cesse est. celle d’être honnête homme et toujours ferme dans son devoir: changer quand il change, ce n’est. pas légèreté, c’est. constance. Vous fîtes bien peut-être alors de promettre ce que vous feriez mal aujourd’hui de tenir. Faites dans tous les temps ce que la vertu demande, vous ne vous démentirez jamais.” J. J. Rousseau, Julie ou la Nouvelle Héloïse, Paris, Garnier-Flammarion, 1967, VI, Lettre VIII, p. 526.
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Galán Díez, I. (2017). IV: Social Adaptability. In: The Birth of Thought in the Spanish Language. Philosophical Studies Series, vol 127. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-50977-8_16
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