Transformed virtue: strength and
courage in ever seeking to evolve toward higher consciousness,
intelligence, and beauty, with the zenith of these things residing at
the zenith of material/supermaterial evolution, or Godhood.
(Theological materialism).
The old virtue: strength and courage as
good. (pre-Christian, post-Christian Nietzschean).
Post-pagan virtue: the suppression or sublimation of
strength and courage in seeking the inward experience of God or the
Father-Within, or high non-material reason as good. (Vedic, Socratic, Christian).
This historical transforming of virtues
has resembled Hegel's dynamic of thesis, antithesis, but the
synthesis is material/supermaterial and not “spiritual” (which is
supermaterial). Upward material/supermaterial evolution replaces the
“dialectic” toward the non-material spirit, and also replaces
power for power's sake in the value system.
Virtues seem to reveal the degree of
biological, psychological, philosophical, religious and political
health of a people or culture.
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