Sentence examples for a virtuous disposition from inspiring English sources
Good habits, a sound mind and a virtuous disposition are some of the steps that lead us there.
For example, we have listed honesty as a potential attribute without distinguishing between truth-telling, as a behaviour, and authenticity as a virtuous disposition of character.
Also, Confucianism's stress upon the cultivation of humane characteristics and the development of virtuous dispositions has inspired some scholars to interpret the Confucian Way as a sophisticated mode of virtue ethics that developed independently of the Western tradition.
The German dramatist and literary critic Gotthold Lessing (1729 81) held that catharsis converts excess emotions into virtuous dispositions.
However, as Mencius's carefully chosen sprout metaphor suggests, humans are not born with fully formed virtuous dispositions.
Like Albert the Great and Thomas Aquinas, James of Viterbo holds that the moral virtues, considered as habits, i.e., virtuous dispositions or acts, are connected.
Ecofeminist virtue ethics asks what a morally good or virtuous person would do, and which character traits, attitudes or dispositions a virtuous person would exhibit, in order to predispose the nonhuman natural environment to survive and "flourish" in a healthy way.
It has been explained that SRH might better capture the burden of clinical and subclinical conditions compared to the traditionally adopted measures of disease, or that positive self-ratings may mirror a general optimistic disposition[ 21] (consequently promoting a virtuous cycle with beneficial effects on neurological, immunological and endocrinological pathways[ 22]).
Although virtue tends to coincide with interest it tends to coincide because a virtuous life is a life with the right balance of benevolent passions and dispositions to make one happy and a life which responds to the unchanging and immediate moral authority of conscience -- although they are approved of and motivated by self-love as well.
So the ready disposition to keep these passions in their proper role is an essential element of a virtuous character and life.
