Reimagining the moral life through the prism of the Beatitudes takes us from rules to virtues: from a rule-centered idea of morality to a virtue-centered idea of morality. The basic question changes from “How far can I go?” to “What should I do to become a good person?” In discovering answers to that far more profound question, rules will come into focus, but those rules are not arbitrary impositions from outside the human condition. The rules emerge from the very dynamics of the human quest for happiness. They are, so to speak, built into the quest itself. 78
–George Weigel, The Truth of Catholicism: Inside the Essential Teachings and Controversies of the Church Today
