Philosophical concept
Virtue as the only good
Virtue as the only good holds that only the moral quality of judgement and action makes a life genuinely good.
- Works
- 22
- Passages
- 330
- Thinkers
- 11
- Traditions
- 4
Understand uses of the concept
Virtue as the only good holds that only the moral quality of judgement and action makes a life genuinely good.
In the current corpus, this annotation connects 330 passages across 22 works, including Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of Chios, Eudemian Ethics, Politics. These links provide inspectable points of comparison; they do not assume that every author uses the concept in the same sense.
Lexical variants: virtue the only good, virtutem solum bonum, μόνον ἀγαθ, seul bien
Works where the concept is identified
- Testimonies and Fragments of Aristo of ChiosAristo of Chios · 55 passages
- Eudemian EthicsAristotle · 0 passages
- PoliticsAristotle · 0 passages
- On DutiesCicero · 0 passages
- Tusculan DisputationsCicero · 0 passages
- Discourses of Epictetus, Recorded by ArrianEpictetus · 0 passages
- MeditationsMarcus Aurelius · 0 passages
- LawsPlato · 0 passages
- SymposiumPlato · 0 passages
- On Stoic Self-ContradictionsPlutarch · 0 passages
- Consolation to Helvia, His MotherSeneca · 0 passages
- On the Shortness of LifeSeneca · 0 passages
- On AngerSeneca · 0 passages
- On the Happy LifeSeneca · 0 passages
- Moral Letters to LuciliusSeneca · 0 passages
- Outlines of PyrrhonismSextus Empiricus · 0 passages
- Socrates in Plato’s SymposiumPlato · 0 passages
- Socrates in Xenophon’s MemorabiliaXenophon · 0 passages
- Stoicorum Veterum Fragmenta I: Zeno of CitiumZeno of Citium · 70 passages
- The Fragments of Zeno and Cleanthes: Zeno Section, Edited by A. C. PearsonZeno of Citium · 181 passages