Elements for a section of The Field Guide devoted to identifying and connecting instances of virtue and vice.

Thinking About Virtue: A Bit of Scaffolding

More to the point, how do you develop the practical wisdom, the finely tuned awareness, to perceive the path toward the good through the hurly burly of a particular situation, with all the tangles and cross-currents of value and meaning and emotion that are in play . . . especially when you may be under pressure and running out of time?