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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