Prudence is considered the measure of moral virtues since it provides a model of ethically good actions. âThe work of art is true and real by its correspondence with the pattern of its prototype in the mind of the artist.
Under common law, to constitute defamation, a claim must generally be false and must have been made to someone other than the person defamed. Some common law jurisdictions also distinguish between spoken defamation, called slander, and defamation in other media such as printed words or images, called libel.
Defamation is a catch-all term for any statement that hurts someone's reputation. Written defamation is called libel, and spoken defamation is called slander.. Defamation is not a crime, but it is a tort (a civil wrong, rather than a criminal wrong).A person who has been defamed can sue the person who did the defaming.he law of defamation varies from state to state, but there are some generally accepted rules. If you believe you are have been defamed, to prove it you usually have to show there's been a statement that is all of the following: 1  published. 2  false.