The phrase "absolute virtue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe a quality or characteristic that is considered to be morally perfect or unconditionally good.
Example: "In philosophical discussions, some argue that absolute virtue is unattainable in human nature."
Alternatives: "unconditional goodness" or "perfect morality".
"Reading Rainbow," like cute wildlife, is an absolute virtue.
Tolerance was, by unspoken assent, an absolute virtue, right up there with Faith, Hope and Diversity.
They may not represent absolute virtue and absolute evil; Herodotus is too savvy about the peculiarities of each realm.
"The Burden of Tolerance in a World of Division" (Week in Review, Dec. 29) says that at a recent conference on multiculturalism, tolerance was considered "by unspoken assent, an absolute virtue" when thinking about human differences.
But there are examples in modern history of whole societies falling under the influence and control of a mechanism whose aim is to dictate every aspect of life after an image of absolute virtue, and in doing so to produce a mountain of corpses.
Every show on Broadway teaches the same lesson, points to the same moral: that difference is good, that individuality is to be celebrated, that tolerance is an absolute virtue and intolerance a source of misery; that immigrants get the job done.
To impoverish us in the blind pursuit of an abstract philosophical point about the absolute virtues of the private seems a little crazy.
He realizes that his own party is no better than that of the Ghibellines and so he removes himself from them, the act of removal from the criminal violence that he and his other accomplices were for a while thinking about, turns out to be madness and so he decides in this act of virtue, absolute solitude and that is by himself.
For the Supreme is not self-existent justice, or the Absolute of any defined virtue: it is, so to speak, an exemplar, the source of what in the soul becomes virtue: for virtue is dependent, seated in something not itself; the Supreme is self-standing, independent.
Mr Erdogan's party took almost 50% of the vote at Turkey's 2011 election: impressive, but not absolute proof of democratic virtue.If broad support does not automatically qualify a leader as a democrat, nor does strong opposition disqualify him.
Hegelianism promised to make absolute knowledge available by virtue of a science of logic.
