Virtue is cutting out the bad from life and taking only good. It refines moralizes human life. The principle of virtue to make man human. Although aware all virtues, he unable adhere them under certain circumstances. Thus, period when ruled in defiance justice, righteousness, honesty was a dark period. As result, poets that time, seeing this, were eager teach virtues through Pathinenkilkanakku ...

In this paper, the authors address the serious neglect of the 'classical' virtues in ethical reflection upon mental health nursing. The virtues are offered as a possible alternative paradigm for mental health nursing in its search for new models and approaches. Embodied in the notion of a moral community, the virtues have important implications in addressing problems adherent in various 'dualis...

Moral evolution theories have emphasized kinship, reciprocity, group selection, and equilibrium selection. Yet, moral virtues are also sexually attractive. Darwin suggested that sexual attractiveness may explain many aspects of human morality. This paper updates his argument by integrating recent research on mate choice, person perception, individual differences, costly signaling, and virtue et...

Since its inception, bioethics' principled stance has been to argue against paternalism and elitism, and for an inclusive ethical perspective. But at least in North America, the growth of bioethics as a special area of applied ethics has created conflicts within the field itself. Those who, a generation earlier, argued against paternalism and for both professional and public accountability in m...

Several nontrivial applications of subword trees have been developed since their first appearance. Some stich applications depart considerably from the original motivations. A brief account of them is attempted here. INTRODUcnON Subword trees fit in the general subject of digitaEearch indexes [KNj. In fact their earliest conception is somewhat implicit in Morrison"s 'PATRICIA' tries [MOl. Sever...

Three studies involving dating relationships and friendships tested the hypothesis that higher perceived partner virtues (or personal strengths enacted in the context of relationships) are related to greater relationship problem-solving efficacy. Studies 1 and 2 showed that higher perceived partner virtues were related to more relationship problem-solving efficacy concurrently and longitudinall...

Moral Foundations Theory (MFT) posits that people moralize at least six distinct kinds of virtues. These virtues are divided into “individualizing” and “binding” virtues. Despite widespread enthusiasm for MFT, it is unknown how plausible it is as a model of people’s conceptualizations of the moral domain. In this research, we take a bottom-up approach to characterizing people’s conceptualizatio...