Background and Objectives: Patience and wisdom are highly respected moral virtues in Islamic culture. The former (patience) is of utmost importance in the Islamic religion and the latter (wisdom) is one of the six basic virtues both in the recent classification of positive psychologists and Islamic-Iranian culture. These moral virtues are considered important in individuals’ wellbeing and can h...

If a community recognizes a set of moral values and commitments as compelling, as virtues, these become the foundations of moral discourse in that community. Other statements, new moral claims, and so on-as long as they are not absorbed into the set of shared virtues-have no or little standing. And, while there are frequently differences in interpreting the exact meanings and implications of pr...

This book is a prolegomenon to a study of human virtues in their connections with emotions and related affective / motivational states. Accordingly, it is a contribution to the broad and diverse field of “ethics,” in particular to the subfield sometimes known as “moral psychology.” Initiated (or rather, revived) fifty years ago by Elizabeth Anscombe’s “Modern Moral Philosophy” (1958) and given ...

In recent times, the concept of virtue has regained a prominent role in public discourse and in academic ethics as well. However, it has not yet been dealt with very much in contemporary political theory and legal philosophy. This paper aims at clarifying the relationships between law and moral virtues in two respects. First of all, there is the question as to whether and to what extent the law...

The classical Aristotelean distinction between moral and intellectual virtues has come to us as one of the first explicit conceptualizations a realm knowledge action. This paper intends analyze meaning that according an alternative hypothesis, namely, correspond profound understanding relation philosophical political life. analysis will be guided by relatively unclear phrónesis sophía, subtle b...