Characteristics of Civility I have blogged before about the decline of civility in society. I always begin those blogs with the following statement: By age sixteen, George Washington had copied out by hand 110 Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation. They are based on a set of rules composed by French Jesuits […]
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Making Ethical Decisions It has been said that “The true test of a person’s character is how they behave in difficult times.” John C. Maxwell is credited with making this important observation. Maxwell is an American author, speaker, and pastor who has written many books, primarily focusing on leadership. I know this to be true
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Who is Good? You or Me? Who is Right? You or Me? I published a blog about virtue signaling back on May 28, 2021. There has been so much discussion of it since then that I decided to refresh the blog and bring my thoughts up to date. Virtue Ethics One of the differences between
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Virtue + Practical Wisdom = Human Flourishing We gain practical wisdom through the choices we make in life. Aristotle refined the idea of practical wisdom in his classic book, Nicomachean Ethics. Ethics, said Aristotle, was not mainly about establishing moral rules and following them. It was about performing a particular social practice (i.e., being a physician) and that
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How Can We Determine the Right Action to Take? This is the first of a series of blogs on modern ethical philosophies. Ethics deals with standards of behavior that define how a person should act. Ethics does not describe how we act. Ethics deals with questions such as: What sort of person do I want
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