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The Moral Compass (subtitled A Companion to The Book of Virtues and Stories for a Life's Journey) is a 1995 anthology edited by William Bennett. A follow-up to the 1993 collection The Book of Virtues , it consists of seven chapters devoted to different stages of life, with passages from Western civilization and various other cultures.
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.
E.g. ms. Arsenal 1037 (14th century) has a tree of virtue on fol. 4v and a tree of vices on fol. 5r as part of a collection of diagrams on a variety of topics. [2] In this example, the trees are also further subdivided into a ternary structure, as follows: humilitas radix virtutum. I. prudentia (seven sub-virtues) II. fortitudo (seven sub-virtues)
[needs copy edit] [12] Moral virtues help any person to achieve the end, phronesis, is what it takes to figure out the right means to gain that end. [ needs copy edit ] [ 4 ] Without moral virtues, phronesis degenerates into an inability to make practical actions in regards to ends that are genuine goods for man [ 13 ] and without phronesis we ...
So-called virtue responsibilists conceive of intellectual virtues primarily as acquired character traits, such as intellectual conscientiousness and love of knowledge. Virtue reliabilists, by contrast, think of intellectual virtues more in terms of well-functioning mental faculties such as perception, memory, and intuition.
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The Christian virtue is hoping specifically for Divine union and so eternal happiness. While faith is a function of the intellect, hope is an act of the will. As a deeply rooted aspect of human life, it also encompasses other dimensions, such as the cultural and mythical dimention of hope, the hope required to perform every action ...
At Lyons, where he passed his life, at once contemplative and active, he rendered service to the Church by the brilliancy of his writings and preaching and by the charm and splendour of his virtues. His part in ecclesiastical affairs was for a time also very important.