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)