Virtues
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Honesty |
The willingness
to seek as accurate and complete an account as possible of any situation in
which one is living. |
Courage |
The willingness
to face insecurity and to make the sacrifice needed to achieve the goal
deemed worthwhile but dangerous. |
Gratitude |
The willingness
to recognize the unearned increments of value in one’s experience, whether
the emotional response of gratitude is present or not, by thought or action
suitable to the value received. |
Friendliness |
The willingness
to be acquainted with a person whom one knows, likes and trusts. |
Temperance |
The willingness
to deal with actual and possible conflict within a given life by seeking to
harmonize the different elements in accordance with their own potential and
the good of the personality as a whole. |
Beauty |
The willingness
to heighten the response of the senses and of the mind to the highest level
in oneself and others. |
Humility |
The willingness
to recognize one’s shortcomings and one’s assets, without minimizing one or
maximizing the other, in the realization of the responsibility that both
involve. |
Justice |
The willingness
to make no exception of oneself in the distribution of either goods or evils,
unless one can show good reason for doing so.
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Repentance |
The willingness
to make explicit one’s realization of evil consciously perpetrated, to ask
the person or persons wronged for forgiveness, and to make amends as far as
possible for the evil done. |
Forgiveness |
The willingness to treat the person by whom
one has been purposely wronged with a view to increasing the value in his
life and in all our mutual relationships and not simple to punish evil. |
Kindness |
The willingness
to help others who are needy (owing to nonmoral
deficits in their lives) in such a way that they may still experience values
of which they are capable. |
Independence |
The willingness to work persistently
although in a minority for the values and behavior to be the ideal ends for
all persons. |
Tolerance |
The willingness
to protect freedom of speech, of worship and of conscience for all members of
the body-politic. |
Sympathy |
The willingness
to show or understand the feelings of another person; compassion.. |
Cooperation |
The willingness
to leave no stoned unturned to enhance the sharing of all goods and evils
that will help members of a community to live in mutual respect. |
From Bertocci, Peter, Personality and the Good.