The aim of these studies was to produce a virtuous, knowledgeable, and articulate person.

Understanding of right view will inspire the person to lead a virtuous life in line with right view.

Joshua Barnes, a medieval writer, said " Queen Philippa was a very good and charming person that exceeded most ladies for sweetness of nature and virtuous disposition.

Thus, in considering all consequences, a prudent person would act in the same way as a virtuous person.

The happy person is virtuous, meaning they have outstanding abilities and emotional tendencies which allow him or her to fulfill our common human ends.

This sort of honour derives from the perceived virtuous conduct and personal integrity of the person endowed with it.

A loyal person can, in general be relied upon, and hence people view loyalty as virtuous.

A person who is not virtuous cannot be happy, and a person with virtue cannot fail to be happy.

In this, they are akin to Cynic philosophers such as Antisthenes and Diogenes in denying the importance to eudaimonia of external goods and circumstances, such as were recognized by Aristotle, who thought that severe misfortune ( such as the death of one ’ s family and friends ) could rob even the most virtuous person of eudaimonia.

Ascribing eudaimonia to a person, then, may include ascribing such things as being virtuous, being loved and having good friends.

But these are all objective judgments about someone ’ s life: they concern a person ’ s really being virtuous, really being loved, and really having fine friends.

" Black has written that his father was “ cultured humorous ” and that his mother was a “ natural, convivial, and altogether virtuous person .” Of his older brother George Montegu Black III ( Monte ), Black has written that he was “ one of the greatest natural athletes I have known ,” and that though “ generally more sociable than I was, he was never a cad or even inconstant, or ever an ungenerous friend or less than a gentleman .”

: For a person who is virtuous, see virtue.

It signifies the state of robust tranquility that derives from eschewing faith in an afterlife, not fearing the gods because they are distant and unconcerned with us, avoiding politics and vexatious people, surrounding oneself with trustworthy and affectionate friends and, most importantly, being an affectionate, virtuous person, worthy of trust.

A virtue ethics philosopher will identify virtues, desirable characteristics, that the moral or virtuous person embodies.

Instead, it is about a way of being that would cause the person exhibiting the virtue to make a certain " virtuous " choice consistently in each situation.

Although he is often portrayed positively for being a kind and virtuous person among other characters who must learn from their mistakes, Steve is not a flawless character.

Being an epistemically virtuous person is often equated with being a critical thinker.

The first is based on the inherent goodness of acting for and being concerned for others (" the excellent person labours for his friends and for his native country, and will die for them if he must " ); thus, being a wholly virtuous and fulfilled person necessarily involves having others for whom one is concerned — without them, one's life is incomplete:

Finally, he argues that one's friend is " another oneself ", and so the pleasure that the virtuous person gets from his own life is also found in the life of another virtuous person.

Meno responds that, according to Gorgias, virtue is different for different people, that what is virtuous for a man is to conduct himself in the city so that he helps his friends, injures his enemies, and takes care all the while that he personally comes to no harm.

Kaye portrays Vashti as a wise and virtuous woman who finds herself exiled because of court politics ; she adopts an orphan girl, Meta, and takes care of her, and lives out her life after the palace in solitude, but also close to nature and beauty, and loved by her adopted daughter.

EpicurusIn the Epicurean view, the highest pleasure ( tranquility and freedom from fear ) was obtained by knowledge, friendship and living a virtuous and temperate life.

Contrary to popular perception, especially in the western world, Kama sutra is not just an exclusive sex manual ; it presents itself as a guide to a virtuous and gracious living that discusses the nature of love, family life and other aspects pertaining to pleasure oriented faculties of human life.

Epicurus ’ basic doctrine is that a life of virtue is the life which generates the most amount of pleasure, and it is for this reason that we ought to be virtuous.

However, Aristotle does not think that virtuous activity is pursued for the sake of pleasure.

A virtuous person feels pleasure at the most beautiful or noble ( kalos ) actions.

If an individual experiences pleasure or pain in this life, it is due to virtuous or vicious action ( Karma ) done by that individual in a past life.

They have supported the view that proponents of all faiths can, by doing good and virtuous deeds and by remembering the Lord can certainly achieve salvation.

Therefore people visiting and living in such holy cities are found doing noble and virtuous deeds.

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# Virtue ethics, derived from Aristotle's and Confucius's notions, which asserts that the right action will be that chosen by a suitably ' virtuous ' agent.

It is suggested that had Elihu appeared in the original source, his spirited and virtuous defence of the divine right to punish would have been rewarded by God in the conclusion, or at the very least mentioned.

Actors cannot externalize their responsibility and freedom of will towards some moral truth in the world, virtuous people don't need to wait for some cognition to choose what's right.

Tolkien identified in his 1936 lecture " Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics " a " Northern ' theory of courage '"— the heroic or " virtuous pagan " insistence to do the right thing even in the face of certain defeat without promise of reward or salvation:

* It is impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, the believer feels as totally compelling and convincing.

The Phra Bang has long been seen by devout Buddhists as a symbol of the right to rule Laos, as only a commendable and virtuous government deserves to be caretaker of such a sacred image.

" Finally, to call to mind the enormous influence that ' German philosophy ' — I hope you understand its right to quotation marks — has exercised throughout the whole of Europe, there is no doubt that a certain virtus dormativa to make sleepy had a share in it: it was a delight to the noble idlers, the virtuous, the mystics, artists, three – quarter Christians, and political obscurantists of all nations, to find, thanks to German philosophy, an antidote to the still predominant sensualism which overflowed from the last century into this, in short —' sensus assoupire ' put the senses to sleep.

Those working on descriptive ethics aim to uncover people's beliefs about such things as values, which actions are right and wrong, and which characteristics of moral agents are virtuous.

Ethics is the branch of philosophy which examines the question of what actions are morally right ( virtuous ) or wrong ( sinful ) and why.

Together they will work on to improve Alcibiades ' character because only the virtuous has the right to govern.