Sentence examples for Virtuous persons from inspiring English sources

Virtuous persons, on the other hand, enjoy who they are and take pleasure in acting virtuously.

It is quite clear, however, that intelligent, virtuous persons are not exempt from its obligations.

Thus, the concept of impetus recurs in Buridan's psychology to explain the difference between occurrent and dispositional thinking, as well as in his ethics, to account for the relative ease with which virtuous persons are able to do the right thing (they have acquired, or cultivated within themselves, an impetus to act virtuously).

In a world (paradise) of saints (completely virtuous persons), there would be need for law but not for coercion; so coercion is not part of Aquinas's definition of law and law's directive force can be contrasted with its coercive force (and see 6.1 ii) above).

Many interpreters writing on the rhetorical emotions were misled by the role of the emotions in Aristotle's ethics: they suggested that the orator has to arouse the emotions in order (i) to motivate the audience or (ii) to make them better persons (since Aristotle requires that virtuous persons do the right things together with the right emotions).

Finding the 'right' balance between involvement and distance in a situation is an expression of what Aristotle [ 47] calls practical wisdom (phronesis) or the practical knowledge of virtuous persons.

And how do we identify a virtuous person?

As Bertrand Russell observed, "A virtuous person may be rendered vicious by encephalitis lethargica, and..

Virtue ethics tells me to do what a virtuous person would do in the circumstances — scant guidance for anyone who lacks the virtuous person's built-in ethical know-how.

Again, we are quickly warned not to interpret the Gruppenführer's action as the deed of a virtuous person.

All these interpretations, however, share two notions: every human being has the capacity to possess ren, and ren manifests itself when a virtuous person treats others with humaneness.