Paradoxically our human virtues that maintain our societal fabric emerge from passional grounds/sources in individual existence. It is the Human Condition that prompts our creative strivings beyond the natural round of life toward outstanding achievements. Our full possibilities allow our singular existence: excellence of individual character courage engagement and wisdom to unfold. The transformations that the virtues work with a timing of human progress never entirely accomplished lift us toward personal fulfilment. Papers by: Lawrence Kimmel Tsung-I Dow Bernard Micallef Victor Gerald Rivas Dorothea Olkowski Evgenia Cherkasova Bruce Ross Rebecca M. Painter Alira Ashvo-Munoz Raymond J. Wilson III Peter Weigel Annika Ljung-Baruth Lawrence F. Rhu John Baldacchino Rajiv Kaushik Jaimie Jadovitz Enrico Escher Martin Holt William Roberts Munir Beken.