The phrase "against virtue" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing moral principles, ethics, or actions that contradict virtuous behavior.
Example: "His actions were seen as a betrayal against virtue, leading to widespread condemnation."
Alternatives: "in opposition to virtue" or "contrary to virtue".
Which is not an argument against virtue.
But only if the West is not paralysed by fear or drawn further into the clash of evil against virtue espoused by democrats and jihadists alike.
Unholy row The perils of political Europe ReprintsProbably scores of Turkish women are murdered every year for offences against "virtue", including even going to the cinema with a man who is not their husband.
Their whole meaning and virtue is in their unredeemed lowness, not only in the sense of obscenity, but lowness of outlook in every direction whatever… Like the music halls, they are a sort of saturnalia, a harmless rebellion against virtue".
The perception that Turkey's dismal record on human rights was improving has suffered from new scandals, including the brutal repression of prison riots in December, and the revival of charges against Virtue, the biggest party that dares to air mildly Islamist views.The biggest setbacks have been diplomatic.
In that world of his, in the ideal world, to which the real world must finally conform itself, I dwelt among the shows of things, but under a Providence that governed all things to a good end, and where neither wealth nor birth could avail against virtue or right.
After all, love was so flimsy when held up against virtues like independence and freedom.
Background reading: Harman 'Moral philosophy meets social psychology, Herman 'A mismatch of methods', Pettit 'The instability of freedom as non-interference', Pettit Love and its place in moral discourse, Setiya 'Love and the value of life' Skinner 'Freedom as absence of arbitrary power', Sosa 'Situations against virtues'.
It was Chaucer, she points out, who in the "The Parson's Tale" suggested that envy may be the worst of the deadly sins, "For all other sins are sins only against one virtue, whereas envy is against all virtue and all goodness".
The Supreme Court unanimously disagreed, holding that blacks had the right not to be discriminated against by virtue of their national citizenship.
It's barbaric but, hey, it's home!" The stereotype of the cruel, depraved Arab has long been propagated by Hollywood, which has traditionally set the supposed otherness of the east against the virtue and rightness of the west.
