What is Virtue?
Virtue (Latin: virtus) is moral perfection. A virtue is a trait or quality that is considered morally good and is therefore valued as a principle and the foundation of good moral existence. Personal virtues are traits that are valued as they encourage collective and individual greatness. In other words, it is a behavior that shows high moral standards. Doing the right thing and avoiding the wrong thing. The opposite of virtue is immorality, another example of this idea is virtue in Asian traditions and De (Chinese).
The virtuous person turns towards goodness with all his spiritual and sensitive powers; he tries to reach goodness and shows this with his concrete actions.
The purpose of a virtuous life is to be like God. (A. Nissalı Gregorius, beat. 1)
Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle conduct an important part of their philosophical activities on virtue. Happiness and virtue are considered as two important concepts related to each other. While Socrates states that the purpose of life and therefore moral actions is happiness, he claims that this is possible with knowledge. Therefore, being virtuous is possible with knowledge, and this will bring happiness.
Religions have also determined basic moral virtues.
Justice
The concept of justice; It is based on many areas, different views and perspectives, including ethics, rationality, law, religion, equality and fairness. Justice is essential for a peaceful and safe country, as well as in society, workplaces and our relationships. Fair management is essential for everyone in the workplace to do their job in the best way possible. It is also necessary to be fair for a relationship that is full of happiness, peace, trust and love.
Patience
Patience is defined as waiting for something that will happen or something to come without rushing, and not getting angry even at something that causes anger. Patience is very important for happiness, success, good relationships and in all areas of our lives.
Honesty
Honesty has meanings such as “being one with the essence and word”, “reflecting what is as it is”, “not hiding the truth”, “not trying to appear or show any other way than what is known, believed and what it is.” Honesty is a facet of moral character that connotes positive and virtuous attributes such as integrity, truthfulness, straightforwardness, including straightforwardness of conduct, along with the absence of lying, cheating, theft, etc. Honesty also involves being trustworthy, loyal, fair, and sincere.Being honest requires our words and actions to be consistent.
Living the way we believe; not advocating or supporting what is contrary to our belief can be expressed as honesty. Not lying to ourselves or to others is a condition of honesty. To express our opinions, not to the liking of others, but because we believe they are correct; not making things that we are not sure of as true; not doing things that we know are wrong for the sake of profit; not to defame; not to gossip; Not to lie is a sign of an honest character.
Keep one's word
Keeping your promise is essential to being a reliable person. We must keep the promises we make so people can trust us. We must not make promises we cannot keep. Promises made in human relationships are of great importance. These reasons should not force anyone to make a promise.
Mercy
Compassion is defined in dictionaries as "sorrow, pity felt for the bad situation faced by a person or another living being". We must treat others the way we want ourselves to be treated. If something can hurt us, it also hurts others. A situation that saddens us upset another person. We attach importance to strong characters in our relationships. We want that even if the strong person in our life is cruel to the whole world, be merciful to us ... But a person who has no compassion will sooner or later persecute us.
If we want love, happiness and peace in our lives, we must be compassionate and take people who have a sense of compassion into our lives. If we want to support and empower someone, we must make sure that they are compassionate or not. Unfortunately, we did not give compassionate and good people what they deserve by being attracted to characters we thought to be strong (merciless). But it's never too late for that. As you begin to value those who have mercy in their hearts, compassion and kindness will grow stronger and the world will become much more beautiful.
Forgiveness
Sometimes it can be very difficult to forgive. Of course, we can easily forgive some mistakes, while others are difficult or sometimes not at all. But forgiveness makes us lighter. When we forgive someone with heart, we feel light. If someone has made a big mistake against us, it is important for us to take them out of our lives but to forgive them. We don't have to take the person we forgive back into our lives. However, we must learn to forgive to lighten our hearts.
Helpfulness
Helpfulness is a state of benevolence and liking to help people in need. Just as we are happy with someone else's help, others are happy for the help they receive. If we have more money than we need, we can give some of it to them or spend it on them. Making regular donations to charities, helping the needy people we see around us is just as benevolence; Helping someone who needs help in all areas of our lives is also benevolence. If we really want to help, God can give us opportunities for it. Helpful people are happy. Because sharing makes not only the other person happy, but also us.
Peacefulness
The word peace is generally accepted as the absence of hostility. In other words, liberation from evil, fights and wars; It can also be defined as harmony, unity, integrity, tranquility, silence, and living in peace. Peacefulness can be understood as liberation from evil, fights, wars, harmony, unity, integrity, tranquility, silence, and love to live in peace. Being peace-loving, staying away from evil, fights and wars; It means trying to live in harmony, unity, integrity, tranquility and silence. Not to support discrimination, fight, war, evil in any way; Striving for harmony, unity and integrity among people, societies and countries can bring peace to the world.
Clairvoyance (Prudence, Vision, and Insight)
Clairvoyance can be defined as the ability to see the facts on time and to predict the results without being mistaken. The ability to make correct, reasonable and appropriate judgments; It has meanings such as the ability to distinguish between right and wrong. If we can distinguish between right and wrong and anticipate the consequences of any situation, we can prevent possible bad situations. Likewise, we can make good things happen. It is important to be clairvoyance for happiness, peace and success in our lives and in the world.
Self-regulation (Self Control)
Self-regulation is the ability of a person to regulate his behavior, emotions and desires in order to function in society. Self-control is necessary for the person to achieve goals and avoid negative impulses / emotions. When emotions are too high, it can result in ignoring the will of others, treating them unintentionally. Sometimes it can disturb the peace of the society. Controlling our emotions such as anger, lust, and passion is important for healthy relationships and social peace. The limit of freedom is to the point that the freedom of others does not restrict it.
Virtues are, in my opinion, the key to transforming a person into his best possible form. Total devotion to virtues changes our lives from top to bottom. Moreover, change will not only be limited to our lives.
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Sources: wikipedia.org
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