Among others, Madison was referring to the civic virtues the ancient Greeks had identified hundreds of years earlier. The ...

This Very Short Introduction introduces readers to the various virtues: the moral virtues, the intellectual virtues, and the theological virtues, as well as the capital vices. It explores the role of ...

Peterson and Seligman’s classification of positive values into six moral virtues (wisdom, courage, justice, humanity, temperance, and transcendence) and 24 character strengths (distributed ...

Public moral discourse is toxic. One reason it’s so bad is that people use their discussions of morality and politics for self-promotion, rather than to help others. You may have heard people ...

These are the moral virtues. The first is prudence, which dictates that governments “should not be changed for light and transient causes.” Our faith tells us that prudence helps us “apply ...

Virtue theory, which revolves around the character of moral agents rather than actions moral agents should take or rules they should follow, was opposed to deontological duty-based ethical theory ...

(The Conversation) — Virtue signaling is designed to communicate specifically to one partisan tribe and to affirm its moral superiority. A scholar of ethics and politics explains why that is ...

Let us begin with the description given in the Catechism of the Catholic Church: “Fortitude is the moral virtue that ensures firmness in difficulties and constancy in the pursuit of the good.