Moral character
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Moral character or character is an evaluation of a person's moral and mental qualities. Such an evaluation is subjective — one person may evaluate someone's character on the basis of their virtue, another may consider their fortitude, courage, loyalty, honesty, or piety.
[edit] Exemplary literature
This was a genre in classical, medieval and Renaissance literature consisting of lives of famous figures, and using these (by emphasising good or bad character traits) to make a moral point. Examples include
- Suetonius's De vita Caesarum or Lives of the Twelve Caesars
- Plutarch's Parallel Lives
- Jerome's De viris illustribus
- Petrarch's De viris illustribus
- Chaucer's The Monk's Prologue and Tale and The Legend of Good Women
- Boccacio's On Famous Women and Concerning the Falls of Illustrious Men
- Christine de Pizan's The Book of the City of Ladies.
- Mirror for Magistrates by various Tudor authors
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[edit] External links
- Character Improvement How Character may be improved naturally via a deep unterstanding of the virtues.
- Concepts of moral character, historical and contemporary (Stanford Encyc. of Philosophy)
- Cub Scouting Character Connections Program identifies 12 core values: Citizenship, Compassion, Cooperation, Courage, Faith, Health and Fitness, Honesty, Perseverance, Positive Attitude, Resourcefulness, Respect, Responsibility. Character can be defined as the collection of core values possessed by an individual that leads to moral commitment and action. Character is "values in action."
- The Scout Law A Scout is ... trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. Several interpretations of those twelve important words followed by the Scout Law as it is said in other countries.
