Moral character or character is an evaluation of an individual's moral qualities. The concept of character can imply a variety of attributes including the existence or lack of integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, loyalty, or virtue. The concept of moral character is not specific to a particular religion, culture, or country.-1... Look up integrity in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Bravery and Fortitude redirect here. ... Four Cardinal Virtues of the Catholic Church doing bad to. ... Honest redirects here, For other uses, see Honesty (disambiguation) Look up honesty in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... (UTC):This page is about loyalty as faithfulness to a cause. ... Personification of virtue (Greek ἀρετή) in Celsus Library in Ephesos, Turkey Virtue (Latin virtus; Greek ) is moral excellence of a person. ... Culture (Culture from the Latin cultura stemming from colere, meaning to cultivate,) generally refers to patterns of human activity and the symbolic structures that give such activity significance. ... For other uses, see Country (disambiguation). ...

Quotes

• “The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. But education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals [...] We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character--that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate..” - Martin Luther King Jr. [1]
• "Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character." - Albert Einstein
• "We define character as the sum of those qualities of moral excellence that stimulates a person to do the right thing, which is manifested through right and proper actions despite internal or external pressures to the contrary." - United States Air Force Academy
• "Character is doing what's right, even when no one is looking" - unknown
• "Character develops itself in the stream of life." - Goethe

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Exemplary literature

This was a genre in classical, medieval and Renaissance literature consisting of lives of famous figures, and using these (by emphasising good or bad character traits) to make a moral point. Examples include Classical antiquity is a broad term for a long period of cultural history centered on the Mediterranean Sea, which begins roughly with the earliest-recorded Greek poetry of Homer (7th century BC), and continues through the rise of Christianity and the fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century AD... The Middle Ages formed the middle period in a traditional schematic division of European history into three ages: the classical civilization of Antiquity, the Middle Ages, and modern times. ... The Renaissance (French for rebirth, or Rinascimento in Italian), was a cultural movement in Italy (and in Europe in general) that began in the late Middle Ages, and spanned roughly the 14th through the 17th century. ... Old book bindings at the Merton College library. ...

• Suetonius's De vita Caesarum (Lives of the Twelve Caesars)
• Plutarch's Parallel Lives
• Jerome's De viris illustribus
• Petrarch's De viris illustribus
• Chaucer's The Monk's Prologue and Tale and The Legend of Good Women
• Boccacio's On Famous Women and Concerning the Falls of Illustrious Men
• Christine de Pizan's' The Book of the City of Ladies
• Mirror for Magistrates by various Tudor authors

Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus ( 69/75 - after 130), also known as Suetonius, was a prominent Roman historian and biographer. ... Mestrius Plutarchus (Greek: Πλούταρχος; 46 - 127), better known in English as Plutarch, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist. ... “Saint Jerome” redirects here. ... From the c. ... Chaucer: Illustration from Cassells History of England, circa 1902 Chanticleer the rooster from an outdoor production of Chanticleer and the Fox at Ashby_de_la_Zouch castle Geoffrey Chaucer (ca. ... Giovanni Boccaccio Giovanni Boccaccio (June 16, 1313 – December 21, 1375) was an Italian author and poet, a friend and correspondent of Petrarch, an important Renaissance humanist in his own right and author of a number of notable works including On Famous Women, the Decameron and his poetry in the vernacular. ... Christine de Pizan instructing her son. ... Tudor usually relates to the Tudor period in English history, which refers to the period of time between 1485 and 1558/1603 when the Tudor dynasty held the English throne. ...

External links

• Concepts of moral character, historical and contemporary - Stanford University Encyc. of Philosophy
• College Makeover: Morality Based Learning - by President S. Georgia Nugent, Kenyon College, in The Slate
• Harvard's Robert Coles on Raising Moral Children - The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer