The adulterers of "Betrayal," the mutually attracted quipsters pretending to be adversaries in "Much Ado," the scheming arch-manipulator who becomes Richard III and the intellectually bullying, alcoholic English professor Ben Butley: these are men and women who wear masks as armor and camouflage and who may well (to paraphrase Hamlet) assume virtues when they have them not.
Although the case is being investigated, it seems that much of the money must have come from his archdiocese.So the saga goes on, each week toppling some figure of assumed moral virtue and uncovering stomach-turning incidents from the past.
The Aristotelian view, he claimed, assumes that virtue differs from vice only in terms of degree rather than in terms of the different principles each involves.
These larger spreads are especially pronounced for borrowers without credit rating that have the most to gain from the certification assumed by virtue of a loan contract with a top tier arranger.
Trust would be a sign of respect for others if it were an attitude of optimism about the trustee's character: that is, if it assumed that virtue resided within this person's character.
Whether they are beneficial or detrimental to the viability of the neurons, cannot be assumed by virtue of their classification states.
If social practices are affected by attempts to audit them then the picture generated is not only a poor representation of practice (at the very least the data is often out of date) but the assumed primary virtue of this information, its decontextualized nature, is undermined.
Religion rejects the arrogance of those who assume that by virtue of the fact that they are here now, living and breathing at this moment, they possess greater insight into the human condition than revered teachers of old.
The ancient moralists assumed that virtues are, in John Doris's description, "robust traits: if a person has a robust trait, they [sic] can be confidently expected to display trait-relevant behavior across a wide variety of trait-relevant situations, even where some or all of these situations are not optimally conducive to such behavior" (2002, 18).
No political program is evident in the work, but as has already been remarked with regard to the Roshanis religious movements in the period had a tendency to assume political overtones, by virtue of the fact that they created bonds of solidarity among their adherents, who could then challenge the authority of the state in some fashion.
