Understanding Virtues and Character Strengths

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The topic explores virtues and character strengths associated with those virtues and how organizations and individuals can benefit from the virtues and strengths. Various researchers have proved that human strengths are necessary in averting mental illnesses and contributing positively to human happiness and flourishing. Virtues provide a balance between our deficits and excesses by providing a golden mean in form of a virtue. Additionally, virtues help promote lawfulness and reduce societal problems such as class warfare, inequality, poverty, lack of education and undernourishment. There are six broad categories of virtues: wisdom, courage, humanity, justice, temperance and transcendence. Wisdom is a virtue that enables one to gather knowledge and make appropriate use of it. It is associated with strengths such as creativity, love of learning and curiosity. Courage is the ability to pursue your goals in face of adversities, and its strengths include bravery, persistence and zest (Roberts et al., 2005). Justice is the ability to help the community and its strengths include leadership ...