Someone posted this on FB: "The virtuous man is driven by responsibility, the non-virtuous man is driven by profit." - The Analects, Chapter IV

Well, virtuous man is a questionable translation of the original Chinese junzi (君子), though other Confucian terms do refer to qualities which not one does not have merely because one is a human being - they are acquired somehow. This must be an older translation, but at the moment I can't check if it is Legge's.

Anyway, there may be some agreement among members of different traditions that a virtuous action is one that is in accord with reason, and that virtue is some sort of habit. But what sort of reason? How does one reason well (practical reason)? How does this differ from "calculative" reason, which is in accordance with "base" desires? And what is the relationship between reason and the various appetites? Is virtue merely rule-following (like various proponents of the New Natural Law Theory would hold)? Or is it more than that?

I was reading about the Six Martyred Ministers this afternoon, because the KBS drama The Princess' Man (공주의 남자), while fictional, is based on the events of their time. There are a lot of tests of relationships and their virtues, such as loyalty. I couldn't think of any Uhmerican movie or TV drama that really examines the virtues of interpersonal relationships.