Sentence examples for capacity for virtue from inspiring English sources

The second interpretation of the view that the human being was created good (or, to be good), implies that the human being merely has the capacity for virtue: that is, could pursue good, but could also pursue evil.

Though the Framers held a high opinion of human beings' faculties and capacity for virtue and industry, they recognized, following John Locke, that men are not impartial judges of their own conduct.

Mencian optimism about human nature is based on claims about our capacities for virtue, and about the naturalness with which we can develop these capacities, not on the implausible claim that we start out with naturally virtuous tendencies.

According to Dacher Keltner, a professor in the film, "Recent research is suggesting that our capacities for virtue and cooperation and our moral sense are old in evolutionary terms".

This means that the human being is endowed with moral sense and, so, has the capacity for both virtue and vice; his judgment on some moral issue could go either direction: direction of the good or direction of the evil.

Another view is that Xunzi did, contrary to occasional appearances, derive value from tian, for example in his insistence that tian has provided us with the capacities necessary for virtue.

There is a capacity of virtue in us, and... a capacity of vice to make your blood creep.

Becoming a mother reveals a woman's capacity for numerous things: virtue, self-sacrifice, anger, foolishness, love.

What remains constant is the belief that education provides a necessary addition to people's natural capacities, which alone are not sufficient for virtue.

And if so, what will it take for what the historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. identified as democracy's greatest virtue — "its capacity for self-correction" — to kick in and restore the constitutional balance?

In his work both at the Admiralty and in Parliament, Pepys's unbending passion for efficiency and honesty (combined with a certain childlike insistence on his own virtue and capacity for being always in the right) made for him powerful and bitter enemies.