A Renaissance Theory of Virtue: Lorenzo Valla on Honesty, Generosity, Motivation, and Kindness

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Жыл бұрын

15th century Italian Renaissance thinker Lorenzo Valla's theory of virtues as combinations of simpler virtues.‪@PhiloofAlexandria‬

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@Tm-kt3uw Жыл бұрын

Professor Bonevac, thank you for another great video!!!

@julesjgreig Жыл бұрын

Learning a lot; thank you 👍🏽

@immanuel_0697 Жыл бұрын

Interesting series

@thomasr7292 Жыл бұрын

Very excellent video professor. This is unrelated to the topic, but just out of curiosity would you have the name of the painting in the thumbnail?

@PhiloofAlexandria Жыл бұрын

Thanks! The image: I generated it using AI.

@thomasr7292 Жыл бұрын

@@PhiloofAlexandria Ah thank you, I was wondering if it might be that.

@PhiloofAlexandria Жыл бұрын

All the images I could find of Valla were from portraits done late in his life, when he was papal secretary. But he worked out his philosophical ideas in his twenties. So I wanted something that would show him at a younger age. Midjourney and Stable Diffusion did fairly well at that.

@thomasr7292 Жыл бұрын

@@PhiloofAlexandria Ah, I gotcha. Thanks again, hadn't heard of Valla before this but he seems to have some good notions regarding honesty.

@Tm-kt3uw Жыл бұрын

Professor Bonevac, I also wanted to ask you: can you recommend any philosophical writings by Plutarch? I like his historical texts, but I haven’t read his philosophical works.

@PhiloofAlexandria Жыл бұрын

Most of his philosophical work is in his Moralia, a multi-volume work. See plato.stanford.edu/entries/plutarch/#PriSou.

@Tm-kt3uw Жыл бұрын

@@PhiloofAlexandria Thank you so much!!!!

@Aneddotario 2 ай бұрын

Is the image of the young man that can be seen 6 minutes and 20 seconds into the video AI-generated? Is it patterned after a painting or something like that?

@kallianpublico7517 Жыл бұрын

Is morality a concensus or an outlier? Is Valla's aim of love rational or irrational? I can see how "love" can be used to make someone suffer, but believe their suffering is holy. Should one fit in or follow their prodigal urge? Virtue is not acceptable as a means. Why? When fighting an evil, demon Virtue keeps you from being inveigled by the demon but it doesn't give you power over evil. Virtue can keep one away from trouble, but it can't conquer your troubles. For that one needs conviction. Is conviction the mean between two opposites? Every monster movie can tell you what conviction looks like.