Virtue ethics is person rather than action based. It looks at the moral character of the person carrying out an action. A right act is the action a virtuous person would do in the same ...

By applying these Stoic principles in your daily life, you'll not only earn the respect and admiration of others, but you'll ...

Garcia was Associate Professor in the philosophy departments of Notre Dame and Georgetown universities ... Georgetown University Press), 2007. "Practical Reason and Its Virtues," in Intellectual ...

If you were to ask the person sitting next to you what being a good person means, they’d probably say something along the lines of: “helping people”, or “being kind to animals”.

Antisthenes, Cynic philosopher and tutor of Diogenes, championed simplicity, virtue, and freedom, influencing Stoic thought.

Emphasizing virtue as the foundation of true joy, Jeffrey Rosen — president and CEO of the National Constitution Center — discussed the pursuit of happiness in his forum on Jan. 28.

When Benjamin Franklin included silence in his list of virtues, he termed it “golden.” Silence does not mean remaining quiet with respect to important issues but involves speaking after listening and ...