Virtues and Passions in Literature

Paradoxically, our human virtues that maintain our societal fabric, emerge from passional grounds/sources in individual existence. It is the Human Condition that prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. Our full possibilities allow our singular existence: excellence of individual character, courage, engagement, and wisdom to unfold. The transformations that the virtues work with a timing of human progress, never entirely accomplished, lift us toward personal fulfilment. Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel, Tsung-I Dow, Bernard Micallef, Victor Gerald Rivas, Dorothea Olkowski, Evgenia Cherkasova, Bruce Ross, Rebecca M. Painter, Alira Ashvo-Munoz, Raymond J. Wilson III, Peter Weigel, Annika Ljung-Baruth, Lawrence F. Rhu, John Baldacchino, Rajiv Kaushik, Jaimie Jadovitz, Enrico Escher, Martin Holt, William Roberts, Munir Beken.