Our fourth virtue is that of Temperance.  In some ways, it is the least popular of the virtues – today, the world tells us to pursue our passions, not to regulate them; to be all-in; to hold nothing back.  But this is...

Does it ever bother you when someone doesn’t seem to get the justice they deserve?  When your teacher gives mercy to a classmate, and lets them off the hook, when you think a just punishment should have been given?  William...

One of the most famous passages in the Bible about justice comes in the book of Exodus, when God gives the Israelites the laws that are to govern their nation.  Regarding justice for a specific crime, it says: “23 But if...

The third of our cardinal virtues is Justice.  Most of us hear the word justice only in the news: the Department of Justice; a justice of the Supreme Court; the criminal justice system, and so on.  But what does it...

Can a bad man have fortitude?  Can we attribute the virtue of courage to a Nazi soldier willing to risk his life for the cause of exterminating the Jews?  Or to an Al-Qaeda terrorist who blows himself up in order...

Fortitude requires hard and tedious work – it means reading what the text says, and then wondering what it means. It is slowing down to tackle a math problem, looking at all the details of it, or practicing over and...

John Milton writes in Paradise Lost: Henceforth I learn, that to obey is best, And love with fear the only God; to walk As in his presence; ever to observe His providence; and on him sole depend, Merciful over all...

The word fortitude comes from the Latin fortis, which simply means strength.  It shares an etymology with the word fortress or fort—which is a military stronghold built to defend against attack. Fort McHenry was built between 1798 and 1800, in order...