CHAPTER II. Virtue and Duty

VIRTUE AND DUTY

1. Duties are Right acts, for the adequate performance of which a moral motive is at least occasionally necessary. Virtuous conduct includes the performance of duties as well as praiseworthy acts that are thought to go beyond strict duty, and that may even be beyond the power of some to perform. 217-221

2. Virtues as commonly recognised, are manifested primarily in volitions to produce particular right effects--which must at least be thought by the agent to be not wrong--: but for the completeness of some virtues the presence of certain emotions seems necessary. 221-228

3. It may be said that Moral Excellence, like Beauty, eludes definition: but if Ethical Science is to be constituted, we must obtain definite Moral Axioms. 228-230