Editing Virtue (section)

===Immanuel Kant===
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[[Immanuel Kant]], in his ''[[Observations on the Feeling of the Beautiful and Sublime]]'', says true virtue is different from what commonly is believed about it. In Kant's view, to be goodhearted, benevolent and sympathetic is not true virtue. What makes a person truly virtuous is to behave in accordance with moral principles.

Kant presents an example: suppose that you come across a needy person in the street; if your [[sympathy]] leads you to help that person, your response does not illustrate your virtue. {{clarify|text=In this example, since you do not afford helping all needy ones, you have behaved unjustly, and it is out of the domain of principles and true virtue.|date=July 2023}} Kant applies the approach of [[four temperaments]] to distinguish truly virtuous people. According to Kant, among all people with diverse temperaments, a person with a [[Depression (mood)|melancholic]] frame of mind is the most virtuous, whose thoughts, words, and deeds are principled.