Good leaders are people of good character who work to better themselves. Leaders should to be focused on followers and their ...

I do a lot of public speaking for business leaders about how using the science of happiness can improve their organization ...

Justice, along with prudence, fortitude and temperance, is a virtue that must be defended for the good of society, Pope Francis told a group of Italian judges.

The first cardinal virtue is wisdom. Wisdom, in the ethical sense of the term, is a very different thing from book-learning. Illiterate people are frequently exceedingly wise, while learned people ...

Michael G asks: "Theologically, what is the difference between justice and mercy? When Gerald Ford pardoned Richard Nixon, the ex-president did not receive justice, but he did receive mercy ...

The cardinal virtues, deeply rooted in Christianity and among philosophers such as Plato and Aristotle, represent a universal foundation of moral guidance. The virtues are prudence, temperance, ...

John Adams takes up the virtue of humility, with which he struggled his entire life. “Vanity, I am sensible, is my cardinal Vice and cardinal Folly,” our second president confided to his diary.

It struck me as I read through several of the descriptive adjectives within each of these six dimensions that the four cardinal virtues (wisdom, courage, temperance, and justice) are represented.

Following the reasoning available even to non-Christian moral philosophers, the Catechism of the Catholic Church lists four cardinal virtues necessary for our natural good: temperance, courage ...

I prefer the shorter and simpler formulation in Aristotle’s four cardinal virtues: prudence, justice, temperance and courage. None of these virtues is distinctly male, of course.