Byte-Sized Virtue: Season 4, Episode 7 – The Absurdity of Dishonor
Is it enough to simply reject shame, and being shamed, to follow the path of Honor? Or is there more we should be mindful of?
Is it enough to simply reject shame, and being shamed, to follow the path of Honor? Or is there more we should be mindful of?
A mish-mash of topics, with a lot of talk about emulators for old gaming consoles.
What can we come to know about Honor, as a virtue, by looking at its negation?
How Ultima presents the Virtue of Honor (e.g. in the Gypsy questions) often fails to align with how Honor is defined in Ultima lore.
On the importance of forgiveness…and of admitting fault.
Paradoxically, it’s often easier to be virtuous when it comes to the big things, and much more difficult to be virtuous in the little, private details.
Virtue is an interior disposition to do the good…but what if you don’t always perceive that interior call?
For lack of any decided-upon topic, we instead talk about random bits of gaming news…notably, the Nintendo Switch and Mass Effect: Andromeda.
In which, somehow, we bring to a close this discussion of the Virtue of Spirituality and the anima technica vacua.