Do you think the virtues should be used to measure a politician's past or present behavior?
Somewhere along the way I heard Gavin Newsom, the Governor of California, reference a quote by author David Brooks, that I thought was interesting.
Brooks referred to two sets of "competing" values identifying them as "résumé virtues versus your eulogy virtues."
Is it more important to exhibit virtues that we need for work, i.e. our skill set, or those we want recognized at our funeral?
Further, while your eulogy virtues, such as your morality and honesty for example, can be used in a worthwhile way in your work, I can't see where your résumé virtues can enhance your eulogy virtues.
Of course, I could be wrong. How do you see it?
Either way, it is clear that the superior virtues that can be universally applied everywhere in your life are what Christians call both Cardinal Virtues and Theological Virtues.
The Cardinal Virtues are: prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance.
The Theological Virtues are: faith, hope and charity (love)
I encourage you to read up on the virtues and see if you are living them out daily and consider where you might increase your understanding and use of them.
Pray for peace, joy, and an end to war.
Janet Cassidy
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