To Thomas Lickona a virtue is "a reliable inner disposition to respond to situations in a morally good way" (p. 51); "good character," he continues, "consists of knowing the good, desiring the good, and doing the good" (Idem).
The outcome of such training will be virtues, reliable dispositions to distinguish right from not correctly in speech and action.
The idea is that human beings possess intellectual virtues that involve sensory experience; i.e. stable and reliable dispositions for forming beliefs about the environment on the basis of experiential inputs.
Throughout the Bills' first Super Bowl season, Norwood -- 5 feet 8 inches and 160 pounds -- was known as a reliable kicker with a quiet disposition.
He provides a soul of sorts, a reliable touchstone that becomes indispensable to a film's disposition, and with Arrival, Jóhannsson's excelled once again.
The REI is a reliable and valid instrument containing scales that measure rational (need for cognition) and experiential (faith in intuition) thinking dispositions [ 10].
A reliable every-day drinker.
Get a reliable middleman.
Choosing a Reliable Hypothesis.
