Akbar, the great Mughal ruler, adopted a policy of universal peace, influenced by his diverse subjects. Interactions and ...

“Dear friends, a bishop is a witness to hope by his example of a life firmly grounded in God and completely devoted to the ...

Virtue ethics can be particularly helpful for any kind of leadership because they nurture the formation of character, the lasting habits of the heart and mind necessary to effect positive change in ...

Therefore, let us rigorously exercise civic virtues regardless of the required effort, especially courage informed by prudence. It is the only way to keep ours a government of, by and for the people ...

Honesty was not Carter’s only virtue. Aristotle distinguished the moral and intellectual virtues, and President Carter excelled in many of them.

When exactly did Americans stop naming kids after virtues such as Patience and Prudence? We were curious, so we dug into 2½ centuries of names from Census Bureau and Social Security records.

In Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle suggests that friendship has three classic forms: utility, pleasure, and virtue. For Aristotle, the ultimate form of friendship is one shaped around virtues like ...

The nuns there taught us to embrace the virtues: prudence, temperance and courage. They demanded we fend off the seven deadly sins: pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed and sloth.

The virtue of prudence does not stop only at the level of study, research, and consultation. It has to go all the way to making judgments and decisions.

Call debit cards the personification of prudence. Except that thanks to the governmental decrees, the cards that most enable prudence no longer come with perks.

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.

Cicero insisted that what a citizenry needs above all is virtue, which he defined as prudence, practical wisdom, one that eschews vice. In his excellent 2009 book, “Politics for the Greatest ...