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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
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."
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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
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.
In Confucianism, the Sangang Wuchang (Chinese: 三綱五常; pinyin: Sāngāng Wǔcháng), sometimes translated as the Three Fundamental Bonds and Five Constant Virtues or the Three Guiding Principles and Five Constant Regulations, [1] or more simply "bonds and virtues" (gāngcháng 綱常), are the three most important human relationships and the five most important virtues.