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Loyalty and filial piety come first. Then we have love, faithfulness, and love of peace. Some who crave the new form of civilization want to throw away these virtues. They say that these old relics have no place in modern civilization. They are wrong, however; because China can ill afford to lose these previous virtues." [8]
Eight virtues may refer to: The eight virtues of the Four Cardinal Principles and Eight Virtues as enumerated by Chinese political philosopher Sun Yat-sen; The eight virtues of Bushidō defined by Nitobe Inazō; The Ashtavaranas, or eight virtues, of Lingayatism; The eight virtues of the role-playing video game Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar
It is also known as Eight Virtues and Shames, or Hu Jintao's Eight-Step Programme. Its formal name in China is Socialist Concepts on honors and Disgraces . On March 4, 2006, Hu released this list calling it the "new moral yardstick to measure the work, conduct and attitude of Communist Party officials."
It was created by Christopher Peterson and Martin Seligman, researchers in the field of positive psychology, in order to operationalize their handbook Character Strengths and Virtues (CSV). [1] The CSV is the positive psychology counterpart to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders ( DSM ) used in traditional psychology.
Analyzing One-Hundred-Year-Old Irrigation Puzzles" 2011 (Harvard): James Scott—"Four Domestications: Fire, Plants, Animals, and... Us" 2011–12 (Berkeley): Samuel Scheffler—"The Afterlife: I. How People Who Don't Yet Exist Matter More to Us than People Who Do and II. How the Present Depends the Future" [15]
A spin-off from 1993's The Book of Virtues, The Children's Book of Virtues collects 31 passages previously featured in the original. [3] Selections from Aesop's Fables, [3] Robert Frost, [3] Frank Crane, [4] and African and Native American folklore [3] are represented in this volume; the legend of George Washington's cherry tree (as related to Mason Locke Weems) [5] makes an encore appearance. [6]
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The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great, an important adjunct to Plutarch's Life of the great general; On the Worship of Isis and Osiris, a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites; [2] and On the Malice of Herodotus (which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise), [3] in which Plutarch criticizes ...