Virtue is nothing but moral excellence, which promotes individual and collective well-being. It includes goodness, righteousness and uprightness. Each individual has his own values that build up his inner system of beliefs, ideas and opinions. Value system forms the inner core of a person from where he operates. Values also include cultural values.
Morality
It is the ability to differentiate between the right and the wrong, good and bad, through thoughts, decisions, intentions, actions and behaviour.
Ethics
It is a branch of study that addresses questions about morality; that is, concepts such as holy and evil, good and bad, injustice, virtue etc.
The four main virtues
1. Wisdom
It is a deep understanding and realization of people, entity, events or situations using ones' principles, reason and knowledge, so as to act in a way that produces the optimum results. It is also the ability to ascertain what is true, and what is right. It is basically composed of reasoning power using ones' value system and intellect.
2. Courage
Courage is to ascertain what is good for oneself, an instinct to preserve oneself, but surely not at the expense of others. It is an ability to act rightly in spite of problems and hindrances. It is the ability of the mind to face danger, pain, difficulty etc. without any fear. It includes also the ability to pursue truth.
3. Temperance
It is the ability to control desires. It means restraining some impulse, or maybe a control over oneself to go for the excess. It is basically self-restraint in action, statement, behaviour, thought, intention etc.
4. Justice
Justice means that everybody gets his due. It is basically righteousness or equitableness. It includes prevention of unethical procurement of pleasure, enjoyment and entertainment. Tweet Subscribe to Tarry A Little by Email
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