2 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
Roman statesman who was called from his farm to serve as dictator during a Roman military crisis, defeated the enemy in 15 days, and then immediately resigned his extraordinary powers and returned to his farm — the supreme Roman example of civic virtue and voluntary limitation of power.
Aristotle's foundational treatise on ethics — arguing that the good life (eudaimonia, flourishing) consists of virtuous activity in accordance with reason — that virtues are habits cultivated through practice rather than rules to follow — and that the good life requires external goods and social context.