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al-Faḍāʾil al-Arbaʿ (The Four Cardinal Virtues)
The fourfold scheme of cardinal virtues — wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice — each a mean between two vices, adapted from Greek ethics into Islamic philosophical akhlāq.
The fourfold scheme of cardinal virtues — wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice — each a mean between two vices, adapted from Greek ethics into Islamic philosophical akhlāq.
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