Blog Post 1: Virtue

Harold Rivera-Vargas
PHI 100-24N
Prof. Rex Gilliland 
9/16/14

Purity

Purity is a virtue. A virtue is a positive trait that it's deemed good, and purity is free from guilt and evil, therefore innocent.Purity is a virtue because it's a positive trait that all moral beings should have. What makes purity different is that for a being to be pure that being has to be free from all guilt and all evil. That being has to be, therefore, innocent. It could be said that purity is a synonym of innocent. Purity can also go along with other type of virtues. 

A person that it's pure always act out of love. Acts from true love, meaning that it's good, not obsessive-psychotic love, are virtuous. They make us a better being.

1. All acts of true love are virtuous.
2. All pure acts are acts of true love.
3. Therefore, all pure acts are virtuous.

Telling the truth, being honest, is virtuous. A person that's pure will not lie, because what makes that person pure is that he/she lacks evil and guilt, we could say that person is innocent. Now, a person that always tells the truth is a pure person. If that person were to keep the truth hidden it would be hurting another which will make them feel guilt, taking away their purity and their innocence. By not lying the person stays pure and keeps his/hers virtuous trait. In a different scenario, if that person lies, and a dispute starts and later that escalates to something worse, that person would not be pure because he/she has committed an evil act which strips him/her of their innocence making them impure. Therefore when a person tells the truth that person is being pure and possess a virtuous trait.