The Institutes of Law; a Treatise of the Jurisprudence As Determined By Nature
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" 366 RELATION BETWEEN JURISPRUDENCE AND ETHICS. knowledge, or the means which medicine supplies is health, or the means which war supplies, or professes to supply is peace. 1 In further illustration of the relation in which the various sciences stand to the central science of ethics, and to each other, let me recall the results of our recent inquiry into the antique conception of virtue. After endeavouring to prove the groundlessness, in point of principle, of the distinction which it had been... attempted to draw between justice and charity, I referred to the famous argument in the Protagoras of Plato, by which the unity of the virtues is established. According to Plato's view, we found that virtue, the good, when considered as a whole, is not an aggregate of separate elements, neither is it a generic term for specific objects re- sembling each other only in their common participation in one single element, and that when we speak of the separate virtues of courage, temperance, justice, and the like, we do not mention the parts of a whole — e.g., of a lump of gold — but the different phases in which an indivisible whole — the quality gold in the abstract — exhibits itself.
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