The better known of his books were The New Scepticism: Inquiry and Reliable Knowledge (1992), The Courage to Become: The Virtues of Humanism (1997), Skeptical Odysseys: Personal Accounts by the World's Leading Paranormal Inquirers (2001), which he edited, and Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm (also 2001).
He does not become, by virtue of what we have learned, a man forgiven and explained.
The film's tortured message has been debated in the pages of the Times and Newsweek and the Village Voice, and on "Nightline" and "Oprah"; the movie has become, by virtue of both its explosive subject and its rather slippery point of view, a real cultural event, and if you haven't seen it yet you might almost feel that you no longer need to.
No longer a barbarian king, Charlemagne became, by virtue of the symbolism of the age, a new Constantine.
Well finished and clean in appearance with simple decoration, Queen's ware became, by virtue of its durable material and serviceable forms, the standard domestic pottery and enjoyed a worldwide market.
If the constitutional challenges are unsuccessful, then the mandate becomes, by virtue of the supremacy clause, "the supreme Law of the Land and the Judges in every State shall be bound thereby, any Thing in the Constitution or Laws of any State to the Contrary notwithstanding".
That is, clemency is an attitude that was originally displayed towards enemies, not towards one's own citizens; with Caesar, it becomes the virtue of an emperor (these are the outlines of a highly instructive sketch of the concept's history in Braund 2009).
So, for example, on this approach a subject perceives redness when he has an eye made of suitably gelatinous stuff such that when it is exposed to a color in its environment it becomes, in virtue of this exposure, itself red.
When you stand inside the square four LED light bars affixed to the ground of the palace courtyard everything you observe in the world becomes, by virtue of your proximity to it, your responsibility.
In this way, moral virtues become the kind of human excellence that is other-regarding.
