His first name, Gunapala means "Protector of Virtue and his second Piyasena means "Beloved of the People".
Fadilah, whose name means "virtue," has 15 of the 275 seats in Parliament, and its power base is in oil-rich southern Iraq, particularly around Basra.
The passing of sensual pleasure means virtue can come to the fore.
In Ahimsa Paramo Dharma, dharma means virtue.
By this definition, being rational means valuing reason in thought, word, and deed, and realizing reason in one's life means being rational: the virtue and the value entail each other.
The Optimal Living 101 series explores what it means to live with virtue and excellence, moment to moment; a concept known to the Greeks as Areté.
More generally, the terminology of vices as defects and excesses and virtue as a mean is misleading; virtues and vices should not be ranked "according to whether they are at the bottom, or halfway up, or at the top".
Before the "Ethics" men knew that courage was a virtue, and that it meant overcoming fear in the face of danger.
The word "Pūtanā", broken as "Pūt" (virtue) and "nā" (no) means "devoid of virtue".
However, when it comes to the individual virtue of justice, Hume himself supplies some of the means toward a (virtue-ethical) account relying solely on natural virtue (and thus not subject to "Hume's circle").
