Immanuel Kant’s Kingdom of Ends, where every person is treated as an end in themselves, I found myself drawn to the concept of virtues as something dynamic and alive. A mist that flows through us rather than qualities we permanently possess.

Inspired by a Finnish word virtaus, flow.

Eudaemonia, or human flourishing, requires personal development, moral education, and a structured society with defined social roles and an unequal distribution of resources, at least in Aristotle’s view. He believed that individuals in higher social positions, with access to mentorship and material support, were best able to actualize their potential.