virtue and vice
Ethics and sin
Virtue and vice are opposing moral categories—virtue being qualities considered good or admirable, vice being those considered bad or corrupt.
The phrase typically frames moral life as a contest between these forces: a story of virtue and vice, the eternal struggle between virtue and vice.
It appears in philosophical and religious discussions of character and conduct.
- sinViolation of divine law
- seven deadly sinsTraditional mortal transgressions
- ethicsStudy of right conduct
- moral compassInner ethical guidance system
- courageFortitude facing danger
good and evil · cruelty · grace · fall from grace · charity · morality · honesty · karma · deceitfulness · redemption · greed · temptation · guilty pleasure · inner demons · damnation · kindness · sloth · pride
- Good and Evilgood, evil, good versus evil, morality, temptation
- allegoriesallegory, fable, parable, Animal Farm, Pilgrim's Progress
- allegoryAnimal Farm, Narnia, The Little Prince, religious allegory, political allegory
- inner conflictinner conflict, internal struggle, inner turmoil, torn feelings, emotional conflict
virtue and viceamorality
Lacking ethical concern
neutral ground · beyond good and evil · value-free · non-moral · moral ambiguity
virtue and vicedeterminism
Doctrine of causal necessity
circumstance · behavioral conditioning · nature and nurture · instinct · compulsion
virtue and vicemoral relativism
Values vary by context
situational ethics · shades of gray · pragmatism · consequentialism · moral complexity
virtue, vice, virtuous, virtuously, virtuousness, virtual, virtually, virtuality, virtuoso