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Shvoong Home>Arts & Humanities>Philosophy>Temperance! Forgotten and a virtue that needs to be reactivated ... Summary

Temperance! Forgotten and a virtue that needs to be reactivated ...

Academic Paper Summary   by:lufalcao     Original Author: Luzia Aparecida Falcão Costa
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We live in an era where everything happens so very fast. A bad year begins, and when we realize, this is Christmas, suddenly, knocking on our doors. Adding to this, there is the mandatory monthly accounts that we have to remove, so continuous and relentless. We have the feeling that was a few days ago that we made such payments, and wonder, we again with them, because going up and warn of their respective dates of maturity. Indeed, our everyday life is permeated by facts and events, to some extent, cause anxiety, irritability, nonconformity and loss of hope that better days will come to ease our afflictions and discontent. Hence the importance of developing the virtue of temperance, which discipline and order and the reason which relates directly to self-assessment and the comparability of the trial made with respect to the existing reality. It is through the exercise of such virtue that the individual will no longer allow concerns, hassles, aggressive acts, especially the verbal order, interfere in people''s lives, avoiding, therefore, account for losses, both for mental health, as for the mentally ill. Obviously, given the many hassles that permeate human life today, this is not an easy process of being assimilated, because it depends on the year and the development of other virtues, the humility, which is linked to the ability of each individual to self-assess and if autocriticar, in a continuous manner, as to the performance shown against the adversities that today, at any moment, they are present. On the other hand, can not be forgotten that if humility does not make this, there are great chances that they fall into another extreme, the arrogance, which is contrary to reality and is based on ignorance of the relations of mutual dependence that exists between the various elements that compose the social structure and that part of the very essence of what is considered human creature.
In combination, the addition of another year is needed for this to happen renewal: the patient. Therefore, the time factor is also to be of rare value, however, we must make it clear that that is not related to the accounting of the hours of the clock, but the time to let life happen, since most of the situations distressing that we are down, not up to no control on our part. It is therefore that we should seek within each of us, mechanisms to facilitate the understanding that there is a natural law that coordinates and provides that all occur on its own time and that a calm mind is able to understand better what thinks and feels the "other". The biggest problem, however, seems to lie in the trailer of our problems to solutions quickly. Still attached to them so we could not be available for our self-understanding and, consequently, for the "other". Therefore, we must change our way of being and action and understand that the direction is more important than speed, not making the habit, a lifestyle, not forgetting that life is one and we must find reasons for be free. Only in this way will be possible to make our lives become a journey much more pleasant and unpretentious.
Published: March 04, 2009   
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