All About Character
The Building Blocks of Character Character, the measure of a person’s mental and moral qualities that determines his or her thoughts and actions in the world, seems to be increasingly elided in contemporary discussions about how to live the good life. Among much of the self-help literature, well-being or happiness is now typically invoked as the most important quality worth maximising. There is indeed good argument to value well-being if we understand it as happiness and satisfaction. If, however, this…