In Christianity, the theological virtues are:
Faith
Hope
Charity
From 1 Corinthians 13:13. St. Paul defined these three chief virtues. Christian Church authorities called them the “Three Theological Virtues” because they believed these virtues were not natural to man in his fallen state, but were conferred at Baptism.
The Four Cardinal Virtues:
Fortitude (Courage)
Temperance (Temperance)
Prudence (Wisdom)
Justice (Justice)
From Wisdom 8:7
The Seven Heavenly [...]
Virtue is also an important concept in Chinese philosophies such as Confucianism and Taoism. Chinese virtues include:
Humanity
Xiao - usually translated as filial piety
Zhong - meaning loyalty.
One important normative value in much of Chinese thinking is that one’s social status should be the result of the amount of virtue that one could demonstrate rather than by one’s [...]
Ranked in order of severity as per Dante’s Divine Comedy (in the Purgatorio), the seven deadly vices are:
Pride (vanity) - an excessive love of self or holding self out of proper position toward God or fellows. Dante’s definition was “love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one’s neighbor”. In the Latin lists of [...]
Ranked in order of severity as per Dante’s Divine Comedy (in the Purgatorio), the seven deadly vices are:
Pride (vanity) - an excessive love of self or holding self out of proper position toward God or fellows. Dante’s definition was “love of self perverted to hatred and contempt for one’s neighbor”. In the Latin lists of [...]
In Christianity, the theological virtues are:
Faith
Hope
Charity
From 1 Corinthians 13:13. St. Paul defined these three chief virtues. Christian Church authorities called them the “Three Theological Virtues” because they believed these virtues were not natural to man in his fallen state, but were conferred at Baptism.
The Four Cardinal Virtues:
Fortitude (Courage)
Temperance (Temperance)
Prudence (Wisdom)
Justice (Justice)
From Wisdom 8:7
The Seven Heavenly [...]
Virtue is also an important concept in Chinese philosophies such as Confucianism and Taoism. Chinese virtues include:
Humanity
Xiao - usually translated as filial piety
Zhong - meaning loyalty.
One important normative value in much of Chinese thinking is that one’s social status should be the result of the amount of virtue that one could demonstrate rather than by one’s [...]
Ranked in order of severity as per Dante’s Divine Comedy (in the Purgatorio), the seven deadly... Read More »
In Christianity, the theological virtues are: Faith Hope Charity From 1 Corinthians 13:13. St. Paul defined... Read More »
Virtue is also an important concept in Chinese philosophies such as Confucianism and Taoism. Chinese virtues... Read More »
