The phrase "a type of virtue" is correct and can be used in written English.
It can be used when discussing the different qualities that are considered virtues, such as honesty, humility, and determination. For example, "Patience is a type of virtue that is difficult to cultivate, but necessary for successful relationships."
Although he denies that the virtues are a type of grace, he includes them in this section because virtues come about as a result of grace working within human beings.
In Falun Gong's central text, Li states that xinxing "includes virtue (which is a type of matter), it includes forbearance, it includes awakening to things, it includes giving up things giving up all the desires and all the attachments that are found in an ordinary person and you also have to endure hardship, to name just a few things".
Each living being, by virtue of having a body, exhibits a type of body-consciousness, a relating of oneself to others in a given environment.
The concept of inertia was developed more clearly in the work of his contemporary Avicenna, who conceived a permanent force whose effect is dissipated only as a result of external agents such as air resistance, making him "the first to conceive such a permanent type of impressed virtue for non-natural motion".
Ian Jenkins emphasises that the beautiful youths of Greek sculpture served as types of virtue more than as objects of desire; they were not meant to arouse.
In this 34th volume, sponsored by the American Society of Legal and Political Philosophy, a distinguished group of international scholars from a range of disciplines examine what is meant by virtue, analyzing various historical and analytical meanings of virtue, notions of liberal virtue, civic virtue, and judicial virtue, and the nature of secular and theological types of virtue.
Both of these types of virtue are inferior to intellectual virtue which consists in the activity of the philosopher (see I 2. 6).
Hume looks at each of the four types of virtue and argues that in each case, our approval does not spring from a concern for our own happiness, but rather from sympathy.
Out of the various tenor relationships that we need to consider (e.g. institutional role, status role, sociometric role), I have concentrated on institutional role (also called agentive role) — the roles people play in a situation type by virtue of their contribution to the institution.
