Herbart’s Doctrine of Ideas naturally leads to the notion of virtue or human excellence, for “the ideal, complete realization of inner freedom [just] is the virtue of the individual” (Weiss 1928: 145; cf. SW II: 409, ff., esp. 411–12). Here we advance from aesthetic pleasure in the paradigms of the will to their actual realization: “Virtue does not forever stay home but strides forth into an alien world” (SW II: 414). Thus the individual who sees and approves of the practical Ideas also feels compelled to enact them in a coherent way of life. This unity is the Ideal of virtue, according to which “no part of [practical] insight may lack the corresponding will[,] and there should be no lack of connection among its parts” (SW II: 412). The virtuous life must exclude vice and lack of virtue, and react to the situations that at every turn demand virtue’s activity (SW II: 412–13).