Do you optate to be an authentic good person? This reading will be of great avail to you.

A math preceptor can only be sure that his student genuinely understands the edification he is edifying if he can answer the tests and exercises on the board perpetually again. In this way the prosperity of edifying appreciation can be compared. Edifying appreciation will only be paramount if it is applied to

daily life by practicing virtue. What is virtue?

Virtue emanates from the Latin word virtus (vir) which designates "being human", being firm and vigorous. It is only fitting for man. Consequently, we cannot verbally express "virtue of any animal" because an animal is no longer capable of any virtue. This is because God alone mystically enchants the mind and the instinct. Man has the same mind but we do not have the same cognizance. We have the same instincts but different virtues. Paramount

understand that virtue is always associated with human thought and action.

Virtue is not possessed by man at his birth. If you visually examine a baby, you will optically discern his insensateness in the world. He cannot live without someone else to optically canvass over and meet his needs. He does not yet have the facility to cerebrate and reason, to decide and to act. But over time, change and progress are gradually being optically discerned as it grows. The

it is due to habit (habit). Habit emanates from the Latin word habere which denotes to have or possess

Habits are the result of reiterated mobilization or taking an action. This can only be achieved with effort. Because it goes through a long process and human effort, it will not vanish in an instant.

It will be a perpetual feature that will drive the person to act not only profuse of adeptness but withal with affixed pleasure and congeniality. Habits are the first step in cultivating virtue. So according to Aristotle, man must act justly because through it man will be just. It is paramount to develop good habits so that people can get utilized to doing good deeds. But virtue is not a simple habit, because this condition emerges from nowhere, the act just transpired because

this person is utilized to doing. Reiterated action avails to cultivate virtue but virtue requires cull, understanding and cognizance. It signifies acting consciously. Virtue is the resoluteness to act and not something that affixes to man and automatically emerges from human action. Consequently, virtue is not just a habitual act but an act decided to be done according to opportune virtuousness. It is predicated on cull as well as on developing the faculty to make the right decisions in the future. For example, a veracious person who decides not to take what is not his, is not the result of what he did in the past, but a decision or decision in the present to be veracious. Thus virtue is not discrete from the mind and instinct, it signifies that virtue is the decision to do what is right, with the right reason and in the right way.

Virtue is the result of long and arduous training. As human beings we require to acquire two consequential skills:

The development of cognizance and sagacity is the work of our mind. This can be achieved by shaping perspicacious virtues.

Developing our facility to do good and eschew evil is the work of our instincts. This can be achieved by shaping moral virtues.

TWO TYPES OF VIRTUE

1. Astute Virtue

Perspicacious virtues are concerned with the human mind. This is called the habit of erudition. In human life, we spend an abundance of time enriching our minds. Ergo, it is paramount that we ken the congruous method of doing this so that we do not waste energy,

mazuma and time. You can utilize the following methods as a guide:

Seeking cognizance to ken towards working with adeptness that can only be idealized with the avail of understanding (understanding), science (science), sagacity (sagacity)

Apply the cognizance gained in decisions and actions that can be enriched with the avail of art and prudence

Types of Perspicacious Virtue

Understanding. Understanding is the foremost of all virtues that enrich the mind. It is in the essence of all our noetic conceptions. If understanding does not guide our efforts to learn, our minds will be nonessential. This is why it is given to us as a benediction that we have as we gradually ruminate. The pag-

understanding is synonymous with the mind. Santo Tomas de Aquino calls it the Habit of First Principles.

Science. It is a systematic accumulation of categorical and true erudition that results from research and validation. We can achieve this through two methods:

Philosophical perspective - Cognizance of things in its last cause (last cause) or in its entirety. An example is the study of man, his nature, inception and destination

Scientific perspective - Erudition of things in its proximate cause or part of it. For example, studying biological components of man; or in his actions, faculties, powers and so on.

Sagacity. It can only be verbalized that the human mind reaches its fulfillment if it is utilized to guide the virtue of

sagacity. This is the purest form of erudition. This is the ultimate goal of all human erudition. It is additionally considered the science of sciences. Santo Tomas de Aquino verbally expressed: "There are so many branches of science and so many things that man can ken but sagacity alone." Sagacity edifies man to judge rightly and to do good things according to his cognizance and understanding. It drives the person to understand the result or consequence (consequence) of all words and actions afore they are verbalized and practiced.

Prudence. The virtues discussed have the unique purport of enriching the mind through the information accumulated to ken. Meticulous judgment is a form of erudition whose purport is only out of the human mind. We have it not only so that we can ken, but withal to apply any sapience amassed in action. It aims to tell ourselves how to act correctly or correctly.

Conscientious judgment enlightens and guides all our good manners. It is verbally expressed that in the true essence of life, it is more consequential to be good than to be salubrious, affluent and keenly intellective. This is the most consequential and most consequential of all perspicacious virtues so it is called "practical sapience".

It can be verbalized that a person applies conscientious judgment if the mind amasses congruous cognizance and utilizes it as a guide in its moral action.

Human life is plenary of tribulations. Man needs readiness to face and overcome them. Meticulous judgment will give man this readiness. It aims to judge what should and should not be done in any situation or opportunity. This is the true sapience of a benevolent man. According to Santo Tomas de Aquino, “The practice of conscientious judgment is to optically canvass all sides; recollecting the past, understanding the present and looking to the future, to accumulate data afore making any decision.

Art. If conscientious judgment is veridical judgment about things to do, art is right erudition of things to do. If meticulous judgment edifies us congruous manners, art edifies us to engender in the right way. Art is engenderment, it is the fruit of rectitude. Whatever is composed in the mind is applied to the engenderment of the object. Art can be acclimated to engender anything comely, such as the work of an artist, the musical composition of a composer and the poetry of a poet. It can additionally be utilized in engenderment

of utilizable things such as building houses, buildings, bridges, roads and much more. But any artwork must be executed opportunely and adeptly.

2. Moral and Virtue

Moral virtues have to do with human demeanor. These are the habits that amend man. It is additionally the habits that edify us to align our deportment with rectitude. All moral virtues are cognate to instinct. There are four types of moral virtue.

Equity. In order for a gesture to have genuine construal, it must emanate from the instinct or with its sanction. An action can only be exalted or inculpated if it is performed independently. For example, you cannot inculpate a teenager for hurting a student if he or she is coerced and daunted by someone else to do so. Instinct has a general influence on moral comportment. It must be guided by the virtue of equity so that it is yare at every opportunity to do right.