This from a candidate who paints his resignation as an act of personal accountability, and his self-financed campaign as an example of fiscal virtue.
Shen Te, a prostitute chosen by three gods as an example of shining virtue, opens a tobacco shop to serve factory workers, only to find herself exploited by dossers, drug dealers and even the pilot with whom she falls in love.
Someone showing concern for the well-being of others well beyond the degree of concern for others required of all of us is considered a morally better person than the rest of us (other things equal), an example of supererogatory virtue.
As I now prepare my children to consider their own college choices, I am grateful that I can point them to my undergraduate experience as an example of the virtues of a liberal arts education.
So a pope who was a member of the Hitler Youth and who served in the Wehrmacht asks us to take his word for it that the predecessor who sealed a concordat with Hitler was a coruscating example of virtue.
HENDRIK HERTZBERG: I think they should stand firm and set an example of solidarity, a virtue that has been nearly forgotten.
IT IS a fair bet that in churches all over the world, sermons are being preached today about Nelson Mandela as an example of the Christian virtue of forgiveness.
Careful and attentive reasoning would be an example of an epistemic virtue; jumping to conclusions would be an example of an epistemic vice.
25 The following is an example of a syllogism: "Virtue is the only thing that is good, for that alone is good which no one can put to a bad use: but no one can make a bad use of virtue; virtue therefore is good". The enthymeme draws its conclusion from denial of consequents.
The best we can do to find positive cosmopolitanism in Diogenes is to insist that the whole Cynic way of life is supposed to be cosmopolitan: by living in accordance with nature and rejecting what is conventional, the Cynic sets an example of high-minded virtue for all other human beings.
GG: So what's an example of one of those collisions of virtues?
