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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"cardinal virtues"”.
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Roman Catholics Developing a Moral Compass: Parochial School Graduates' Experiences and Reflections of Living the Cardinal Virtues
… which were coded for evidence of specific cardinal virtues. The four cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance) provided an organizational tool from which to understand moral beliefs and actions over time. One key result of this study demonstrated that the majority of …
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Ordering desires : rhetoric and virtue in Milton's Paradise Lost.
… to the way Milton's epic inculcates particular virtues. Milton famously acknowledged in Areopagitica that "a fool will be a fool with the best book, yea or without book" (CPW 2.521); nevertheless, Milton's poetic practice reveals his persistent belief that poetry could induce some reordering of …
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The Virtues-Based Leadership Model: Assessing Consistency Across Three Spheres-of-Life
<p>This study develops and tests whether the virtues-based leadership model is able to identify consistencies and inconsistencies in a leader’s use of cardinal and theological virtues (the seven Christian virtues) across their embraced, espoused and enacted spheres of life. I present an exploratory …
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Fecunditas, Sterilitas, and the Politics of Reproduction at Rome
… as a generic female quality, but as one of the cardinal virtues that all married women were expected to embody. A woman’s fecunditas could be evaluated and judged according to how many children she bore, how often she became pregnant, and how many of her children survived into adulthood. …
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Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit: A Study in Real and Illusonary Parenthood
… will annually be found embodying all the cardinal virtues, on account of his eyelashes, or his chin, or his legs . . , so, in the great social Exhibition, accessories are often accepted in lieu of the internal character.</p> <p>If by "accessories" Dickens means, as I believe he does, not …