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The Nine Charges are a different list of more explicitly phrased moral or ethical guidelines codified at about the same time. [7] The Six-Fold Goal is yet another list of virtues, given as "Right, Wisdom, Might, Harvest, Frith and Love" by Stephen Flowers (a.k.a. Edred Thorsson) in 1989. [8]
The Children's Book of Virtues is a 1995 anthology edited by conservative politician and commentator William Bennett and illustrated by Michael Hague. It collects 31 passages featured in the original Book of Virtues from 1993, and uses the original virtue list as the basis for four new sections. Bennett developed the follow-up amid concerns ...
Jesuit scholars Daniel J. Harrington and James F. Keenan, in their Paul and Virtue Ethics (2010), argue for seven "new virtues" to replace the classical cardinal virtues in complementing the three theological virtues, mirroring the seven earlier proposed in Bernard Lonergan's Method in Theology (1972): "be humble, be hospitable, be merciful, be ...
30. “Tolerance and apathy are the last virtues of a dying society.” 31. “All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and ...
Virtue – characteristic of a person which supports individual moral excellence and collective well-being. Such characteristics are valued as a principle and recognized as a good way to be. This list is necessarily incomplete. Virtues of self-control. Ambition – self-control regarding one's goals; Ataraxia – Concept in Hellenistic philosophy
Hinckley composed ten virtues: Virtue 1 - Love: The Lodestar of Life; Virtue 2 - Where There Is Honesty, Other Virtues Will Follow; Virtue 3 - Making a Case for Morality; Virtue 4 - Our Fading Civility; Virtue 5 - Learning: "With All Thy Getting, get Understanding" Virtue 6 - The Twin Virtues of Forgiveness and Mercy
The Book of Virtues (subtitled A Treasury of Great Moral Stories) is a 1993 anthology edited by William Bennett.It consists of 370 passages across ten chapters devoted to a different virtue, each of the latter escalating in complexity as they progress.
A virtue is a habit or quality that allows the bearer to succeed at his, her, or its purpose. The virtue of a knife, for example, is sharpness; among the virtues of a racehorse is speed. Thus, to identify the virtues for human beings, one must have an account of what is the human purpose.