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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 Aesirian Code of Nine is also used by some practitioners of Heathenism , consisting of "honor, knowledge, protect, flourish, change, fairness, conflict, balance and control."
For example, the researchers examined Hallmark greeting cards, personal ads, graffiti, bumper stickers, and profiles of Pokémon characters. After identifying dozens of "candidate strengths", the researchers refined their list by subjecting them to a list of ten criteria [a] to help them select the final 24 strengths for the CSV. [1]
The six "core virtues" listed by Peterson and Seligman have been found to be useful, for example, in the structuring of values in their "Values in Action" or VAI. [ 142 ] One of the similarities between virtue theory and fitting-attitude theory is that they both approach the subject of value through an emphasis on the agent. [ 143 ]
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 ...
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
Several New Testament passages contain lists that have come to be labeled Catalogues of Vices and Virtues by scholars. The catalogue form was extremely popular in 1st century [clarification needed] Hellenism. [citation needed] Plato wrote the earliest catalogue. Such catalogs could easily be adapted for a range of philosophies and ethics.
The seven capital virtues or seven lively virtues (also known as the contrary or remedial virtues) [8] are those thought to stand in opposition to the seven capital vices (or deadly sins). Prudentius , writing in the 5th century, was the first author to allegorically represent Christian morality as a struggle between seven sins and seven virtues.
The precepts or "five moral virtues" (pañca-silani) are not commands but a set of voluntary commitments or guidelines, [23] to help one live a life in which one is happy, without worries, and able to meditate well. The precepts are supposed to prevent suffering and to weaken the effects of greed, hatred and delusion.