Editing Virtue (section)

==Vice as opposite==
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The opposite of a virtue is a [[vice]]. Vice is a habitual, repeated practice of wrongdoing. One way of organizing the vices is as the corruption of the virtues.

As [[Aristotle]] noted, however, the virtues can have several opposites. Virtues can be considered the mean between two extremes, as the Latin maxim dictates {{lang|la|in medio stat virtus}}—in the centre lies virtue. For instance, both cowardice and rashness are opposites of courage; contrary to prudence are both over-caution and insufficient caution; the opposites of pride (a virtue) are undue humility and excessive vanity. A more "modern" virtue, [[Toleration|tolerance]], can be considered the mean between the two extremes of narrow-mindedness on the one hand and over-acceptance on the other. Vices can therefore be identified as the opposites of virtues – but with the caveat that each virtue could have many different opposites, all distinct from each other.

Within the Chinese {{transliteration|zh|[[Wuxing (Chinese philosophy)|wuxing]]}} philosophy and [[Traditional Chinese medicine|Traditional Chinese Medicine]] vice and virtue are expressed as excess or deficiency.{{cn|date=July 2023}}