George Washington, by Robert Edge Pine. (Courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery)
Trump’s morality is a rupture in the history of Americans’ desire for a virtuous executive.
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In 2000, two psychologists researched the question of character. They looked at how seven major world religions define it, as well as much literature and philosophy on the topic, and came up with six virtues (e.g., courage, humanity, temperance, wisdom, transcendence, and justice) and 24 “strengths,” among them judgment, perspective, fairness, self-regulation, perseverance (as in finishing what one starts), love, and curiosity.
