Self-Mastery: Directing Your Feelings and Desires
Self-Mastery is the strength of character that is the habit of rightly directing your emotions, feelings, and…
Courage: The Strength to Dare and to Do.
Fortitude is that character strength which is the habit of steadfast courage in facing risks and constancy in facing….
Working Out The Habit of Healthy Relationships
Your Relationships with Others: Justice is that strength of character that is the habit of healthy and respectful relationships with…
The Continuum of Character Traits
This continuum of virtue acquisition shows the spectrum of degrees to which a particular virtue is possessed, from not having the virtue at all (completely vicious) to complete mastery of the virtue (completely virtuous). These Character Traits are defined as follows…
Authentic Greatness: Guardini on “Herrschaft”
So how do you deal appropriately with power? Guardini calls for an "ethos of dominion/lordship". The prerequisite for this is Humility which is a “virtue of strength, not weakness”, which “requires an…
HUMILITY & SELF-AWARENESS
Most everything we do that's rude, out of place, losing your temper or caving to peer pressure is most of the time due to a profound lack of self-awareness: what's…
Self-Awareness and Humility
Most everything we do that's rude, out of place, is due to a profound lack of self-awareness…