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    The Virtuous Manager

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    The Virtuous Manager Enron was the model for rapid growth in the 1990’s but part of the culture and ethics of Enron was disturbing. Falsified documents, cutthroat competitiveness among employees and accounting schemes that hid the truth of the company’s indebtedness were just a few examples of the lack of business ethics within the organization. Perhaps a more virtuous management team could have saved Enron from collapse. Culture of Enron An Indicator of Corruption Enron’s management style was

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    A Virtuous Friend

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    tomorrow.” In other words, no matter how arduous and challenging life can be, another better opportunity will be given the next day. In life, people should identify the difference between the real friend or fake friends. In addition, the qualities of a virtuous friend are trustworthy, have a good attitude, and last being thoughtful. To begin with, the first quality of a good friend is someone who is trustworthy. A trustworthy is someone who is honest, loyal, and caring. An example scenario of a trustworthy

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    Aristotle Virtuous

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    excellence of the soul. (1) For man to become virtuous they must build habits that model virtuous behavior. Aristotle believed that moral virtue forms through habit and no one is born virtuous. Under this premise virtue is both learned and practiced through our behaviors. When one acts in a moral and virtuous way they become more virtuous, the opposite is true also that if one acts in a non-virtuous way they will learn to become less virtuous. To be virtuous you also must maintain a balance which is

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    A Virtuous Friend

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    tomorrow.” In other words, no matter how arduous and challenging life can be, another better opportunity will be given the next day. In life, people should identify the difference between the real friend or fake friends. In addition, the qualities of a virtuous friend are trustworthy, have a good attitude, and last being thoughtful. To begin with, the first quality of a good friend is someone who is trustworthy. A trustworthy is someone who is honest, loyal, and caring. An example scenario of a trustworthy

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    The Virtuous Role of a Spouse Women in today’s society have become equal to men in nearly every aspect of life. They hold independent jobs, can provide for themselves, and have almost every right that man has. Up until very recently, this was not the case for women or their value in the community. In the 16th century, women were treated completely different. They were primarily domestic-minded, and were chosen by husbands based off of the value that they could bring into a household. Beauty and

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    "is the friendship of good people similar in virtue" (1156b8). This means that the argument of whether or not young people can form complete friendships is rooted mostly in virtue. Aristotle distinguishes human beings' unique ability to commit virtuous, voluntary actions when he says that "…none of the other animals will ever act voluntarily...", however, he finishes his statement saying, "...nor will children." (1111a25) This means that young human beings do not act voluntarily, but instead as

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    Virtuous Leader Essay

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    What makes a Virtuous Leader. Being admirable and accommodate others can influence people to be a virtuous leader. Using virtues can teach us ways of how to have a moralistic happy feeling in life and care for other people since people get influenced by you. Being able to be a virtuous leader you need to know what the virtues are, this can change the way you are and can help other people understand how you made yourself to become a leader, virtue means showing high moral standards. Here are 4 supporting

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    Furthermore, the qualification of the virtuous friendship aims to use the similarities of the friend as a moderator, which would benefit the agent in their pursuit to achieving an intermediate state of virtue. The closer the similarities are between individuals, the better they can moderate each other’s actions/desires. Ideally, if one of the individuals were to act out of line, their friend would respond accordingly and put them back on track. However, presuming one of the individuals in the relationship

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    Hero : A Virtuous Heroes

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    playwright, once said, “Heroes in drama are people who try hard to reach a virtuous ideal. And whether they succeed or fail really doesn’t matter - it’s the trying that counts.” Sorkin states that heroes are those that attempt to reach their goal, not necessarily those that succeed. Heroes will proceed to try, no matter who or what is preventing them from reaching a goal. Sorkin is also discussing people attempting to reach a “virtuous ideal”, which is often obtained for others. A hero is one who solves

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    Creon: a Virtuous King?

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    Creon: A Virtuous King? Antigone is a Greek Tragedy that was written in 441 B.C. by Sophocles who is considered one of the great tragedians of the Greek time period and even today. Antigone is a complex play which centers on the two main characters, Antigone and Creon; Antigone is the daughter of Oedipus and the niece to Creon. This play starts with brothers to Antigone, Polyneices and Eteocles dying in war; they killed each other tragically while fighting over the throne of Thebes. Eteocles

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