Sentence examples for active virtue from inspiring English sources

Later humanism would broaden and diversify the theme of active virtue.

François Rabelais used the idea of active virtue as the basis for anticlerical satire.

Endorsements of active virtue, as will be shown, would also characterize the work of English humanists from Sir Thomas Elyot to John Milton.

Baldassare Castiglione, in his highly influential Il cortegiano (The Courtier), developed in his ideal courtier a psychological model for active virtue, stressing moral awareness as a key element in just action.

Natural virtues are divided into moral virtues and intellectual virtues.

The fact that this curtain has clearly defined folds gives it vigour, active virtues.

"'What I say is: let's join hands with those who love the good, and let there be one banner--active virtue.'".

The goal of an experiment for achieving robustness is to separate the control factors into three groups: (1) a group of control factors whose different settings give rise to different average responses, (2) a group of control factors that are active by virtue of having an interaction with noise factors, and (3) a group of control factors that have no effect on the response.

The call of Tocquevillian ideals civic virtue, active citizens, strong community associations has seldom been stronger.

On the view of agency in play here, Elena's decision is an exercise of active control in virtue of being caused by prior mental events, such as her recognizing certain reasons.

Thus Dante can speak of our rational nature as our "truly human, or, to speak more exactly, our angelic nature" [3.3.11], as if it enjoyed a more or less mystical existence of a higher order as well as that of the "merely" human nature that pursues the active life of virtue [Moevs, 83 86].