Sentence examples for as a virtue of from inspiring English sources

Mr. Buruma writes, It is a characteristic of Calvinism to hold moral principles too rigidly, and this might be considered a vice as well as a virtue of the Dutch".

Hall got one thing right: if Keaton was indeed a stoic, he was one in the classical Greek sense, of maintaining self-control and discipline as a virtue, of virtue being in inherent harmony with nature, and of virtue being the sole possible source of happiness (that of the character of Steamboat Bill, Jr., if not of Keaton himself).

Indeed, he cites this as a virtue of his conclusive reasons view.

Such simplicity has usually been viewed as a virtue of the approach.

But welfarists view this as a virtue of their theory, since they think the only morally relevant characteristic of any distribution is the welfare resulting from it.

It would be a brave philosopher to endorse this as a virtue of the theory, but it may offset some of the costs.

Against a president for whom certitude was as often a failure as a virtue, Obama made a virtue of thoughtfulness or perhaps merely its convincing replica.

Patience, as it is said, is not a virtue of the youthful.

Certainly, after a century of blown bubbles and gum stuck to the bottoms of desks, it must be difficult for them to begin to see chewing gum as a virtue instead of a vice.

Scientific realists might point out that constructive empiricists do allow that explanatory power can count as a pragmatic virtue of a theory (van Fraassen 1980, 89).

In a neighborhood where many residents regard lack of change as a virtue, the construction of a large or modern building can be as controversial as drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.