Living the Virtues: A Guide to Christ-like Character

From the earliest days of human civilization, the pursuit of virtue has been central to philosophical, ethical, and religious traditions. Among the ancient Greeks, thinkers like Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle sought to define the moral life in terms of virtues-habits of excellence that led to human flourishing, or eudaimonia. Aristotle, in his Nicomachean Ethics, articulated a vision of virtue as the mean between extremes, a cultivated disposition of the soul that inclined one toward the good.
But while Greek philosophy laid an intellectual foundation for virtue ethics, it was within the Judeo-Christian tradition that the full depth of virtue as a pathway to holiness and communion with God was revealed.