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• Acceptance


  Having an objective attitude towards others' ideas and practices that differ from your own.
• Compassion


  Understanding the suffering of others or self and wanting to do something about it.
• Courage


  Willingness to do difficult things.
• Equality


  Believing everyone deserves equal rights and to be treated with respect.
• Fairness


  Acting in a just way, sharing appropriately.
• Generosity


  Willingness to give resources, help or time to others.
• Honesty


  Being truthful and sincere.
• Integrity


  Sticking to your moral and ethical principles and values.
• Kindness


  Being considerate and treating others well.
• Perseverance


  Persisting in a course of action, belief or purpose.
• Politeness


  Using good manners, acting in social acceptable ways.
• Respect


  Showing consideration for the worth of someone or something.
• Responsibility


  Being reliable in your obligations.
• Self-control


  Staying in control of your words and behavior.
• Prudence


  Is the virtue of knowing what to do under peculiar circumstances which enables one to see the best means to approach a given situation.
• Justice


  A virtue of giving anyone his or her due under no condition.
• Temperance


  Is the virtue of curbing or managing the sensitive appetite.
• Fortitude


  Is a virtue of keeping resolute in the face of overwhelming odds.
• Faith


  Is the virtue of believing in God's word without seeing.
• Hope


  Is the virtue of keeping trust in Divine Providence.
• Charity


  Is the virtue of loving God and His creatures.
• Values or good moral values once they are habitually practiced, they turned into virtues.
• Value comes from the latin word "valere" which means "to be of worth".
• Value is price, worth, or importance of a thing
• Human values are the virtues that guide us to take into account human element when one interacts with one other human being.
• Human values include sanctity of human life, peace, and human dignity.
• Moral values are the standards of good and evil, which govern an individual's behavior and choices.
• Morals maybe the right from society and government, religion, or self.
• For the Greek wisdom, knowledge is inborn, while virtue is the knowledge and practice of good habits, virtue is like wise an natural endowment.
• Formation of virtue then is the acquisition of the true knowledge in the mind which is the 'good".
• Moral character is formed by one's actions.
• Moral development occurs we grow and help us choose between right and wrong. It starts with the desire to avoid punishment to the desire to make the world better.
• Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development

  It is how one decides to respond to a moral dilemma.

  1. Level 1: Pre-conventional - before 9 y/o
  2. Level 2: Conventional - early adolescence
  3. Level 3: Post-conventional - formal operational thought is attained.
• LEVEL 1: PRE-CONVENTIONAL


  Stage 1: Obedience-and-Punishment Orientation

  • Obey rules
  • Avoid punishment

  Stage 2: Instrumental Orientation

  • Incentives
• LEVEL 2: CONVENTIONAL


  Stage 3: Good Boy, Nice Girl Orientation

  • Want approval
  • Avoid disapproval

  Stage 4: Law-and-Order Orientation

  • Blindly accepts rules and convention because of their importance in maintaining a functioning society.
• LEVEL 3: POST-CONVENTIONAL


  Stage 5: Social-Contract Orientation

  • Holding different opinions, rights, and values
  • Democratic government

  Stage 6: Universal-Ethical-Principal orientation

  • Abstract reasoning using universal ethical principles
• Conscience came from the Latin origin "cum alia scientia" which means application of knowledge. It is an act of knowledge guided by reason.
• Character - what we are, inside us, hidden, shape through time.

  Acts - outward manifestation of who we are (character). It is the expression of one's characteristics.


  CHARACTER VS. ACTS