The Virtuous Leader

• What are virtues?
• Intellectual Virtues
• Virtue you need to be good at something
• Basic understanding- A sense of feeling for others to create a system of judgment
• Practical Reason- Ability to create, build, execute
• Theoretical Reason- Ability to research the higher things in life
• Intelligence- A mind to see everything
• Character Virtues- Is balance between two extreme behaviors
• Courage- the mean between the rashness and cowardice
• Generosity- the mean between wasteful and stinginess
• Content- the mean between depressed and elated (like a weird happy)
• Aristotle/ Virtue Ethics
• Mind has three components( passions, faculties, and state of character)
• Passions are the feelings, desires, ambitions we exert on the world
• Faculties are the natural capacity to feel (emotions) based on how the world impacts us
• State of character- how we act based upon certain circumstances (based on passions and faculties
• People do not like extreme personalities
• Willpower
• Controlled Decisions-cognitive energy
• Automated Decisions-automatic
• Intellectual Virtues and Character Virtues = Good Life
• Servant Based leadership
• The person who serves first and leds second
• You get elected by the people
• Example: Martin Luther King and gandhi
• Conceptualize
• Servant- leaders seek to nurture their abilities to “dream great dreams”
• The ability to look at a person or organization from conceptualizing perspective
• Servant- leaders must seem to the delicate balance between conceptualizations and day to day focus
• Solutions to consider
• How does Father Roberto’s approach fit with the concept of servant leadership

-Father Roberto shows signs of the following

• Being a servant
• Acts of service
• Accountability to resources
• Moral reasoning and action
• Sense of mission
• Vision
• Mentoring
• Trust
• Empowerment
• Module 6: Understanding Our Differences in the Context of Decision-Making Virtue Development
• Can we judge a person if something is not their fault?
• Can we judge someone if an action is not in their control?
• Moral Luck (Thomas Nagel)
• Constitutional Luck (Nature) (How you were born or what you were born to)
• Circumstantial Luck(Nurture)

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