Virtue

St. Paul, in his Letter to the Philippians, captured the idea of virtue and the living of a virtuous life: "My brothers, your thoughts should be wholly directed to all that is true, all that deserves respect, all that is honest, pure, admirable, decent, virtuous or worthy of praise" (4:8). With this in mind, the classic definition of virtue is a habit or firm disposition that inclines a person to do good and to avoid evil. Characterized by stability, a virtuous person not only strives to be a good person, but also seeks what is good and chooses to act in a good way. Aristotle defined virtue as "that which makes both a person and what he does good."
--- William Saunders, Fr.Prudence: Mother of All Virtues (catholiceducation.org). https://www.catholiceducation.org/en/culture/catholic-contributions/prudence-mother-of-all-virtues.html
Virtue is a beneficial quality or power of a thing or action. No chief enough culture has not valued helpfulness, and regarded helpfulness as beneficial, and virtuous, and virtue is co-essential with helpfulness in any era and area on the planet in history. What is seen as beneficial is of course dependent on a concept of the good, since ‘beneficial’ means helpful and the most mainstream view of helpfulness is as something that is good. 
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Category:Virtues