Temperance evolves out of a certain moral comfort in identity, ordering pride to evoke more measured responses to change. It is a humility born of self-knowledge, a balance achieved through Honesty’s Propriety moment. This virtue measures the world and the self, increasing order through pride in that equilibrium in ever greater amounts.
Temperance does not suppress desires but channels them appropriately. This is important to the dynamics of other virtues: such as providing stability for Loyalty’s emergence, the next virtue. In Temperance, Reason manifests more externally than in just ‘being the bigger person,’ influencing actions and decisions beyond mere introspection.
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 1: The Primacy of Magnanimity
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 2: Honour – The Moral Compass
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 3: Temperance as Balance of Pride
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 4: Loyalty – Bonds Unbreakable
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 5: Triunal Reason
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 6: Portal of Excellence
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 7 – Patience as Acceptance
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 8 – Paternalistic Conservation
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation Part 9: Prudence in Wisdom of Worthiness
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 10: Virtuous Cycle in Symphony
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 11: Ethics as Compass of Internalised Morality
- Virtues as Triple Helix Formation part 12: Justice as Balance of Morality