Sentence examples for based on virtue from inspiring English sources
Using Aristotle's classifications of friends, I will attest that many of my Facebook "friends" were friendships of utility or pleasure at one time, but perhaps social media can assist in allowing those friendships to develop into ones based on virtue and character, which Aristotle insists takes time and trust and love and mutual sharing.
To the Editor: While I agree with Richard D. Kahlenberg's essay opposing legacy preferences at colleges, and appreciate his reference to Thomas Jefferson's belief that college admission should be based on "virtue and talent," I wish Mr. Kahlenberg had gone one step further.
As if in response, "Draft Day" offers a way of judging draft choices based on virtue.
The paradox is that while they are an American contrivance, they are also un-American, standing in direct contradiction to Thomas Jefferson's famous call to promote a "natural aristocracy" based on "virtue and talent".
Montesquieu also produced an innovative analysis of governance that assigned to each form of government an animating principle for example, republics are based on virtue, monarchies on honour, and despotisms on fear.
Abandoning the classical divisions of his predecessors into monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, Montesquieu produced his own analysis and assigned to each form of government an animating principle: the republic, based on virtue; the monarchy, based on honour; and despotism, based on fear.
Allegiant Part I is a good action adventure film about a post apocalyptic world which is divided into five factions based on virtues, but enough already with this franchise.
But his loss need not cut him off from true happiness, which is attained primarily by an austere life based on sufficiency, virtue and wisdom.
Burns portrays Calvinism's contradictions as ridiculous, advocating instead a religion based on innate virtue: in 'Epistle to a Young Friend' (1786), he counsels that 'where ye feel your Honor grip,/Let that ay be your border'.
This seemed pretty ironic, given the show he starred in parcels out an exceedingly hetero-normative interpretation of love; women on the show are appraised based on their virtue, their vulnerability, and their ability to raise children.
