Moral character

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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 virtues such as integrity, courage, fortitude, honesty, or loyalty or of good behaviors or habits. The concept of moral character is not specific to a particular religion, culture, or country.

Exemplary literature

Exemplary literature was a genre in classical, medieval and Renaissance literature (See Mirror-of-princes writing.) which consisted of accounts of the lives of famous figures, and using these (by emphasising good or bad character traits) to make a moral point. Examples include

• 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

External links

• 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

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