Sentence examples for conceptions of virtue from inspiring English sources

We should not confuse Kant's concepts of the good will and moral worth in Groundwork I with his conceptions of virtue and the virtues that emerge in his more mature, normative works.

The central question was this: Is it possible to define principles of justice and individual rights in a way that is neutral toward competing conceptions of virtue and the good life?

Some feminist epistemologists have advanced conceptions of virtue epistemology to remedy epistemic injustice and ignorance.

By its nature, such a conception of virtue is likely to appear in negative form.

Doctors are being asked to save lives, and graduate students to know how Aristotle's conception of virtue differed from Aquinas's conception of — uh-oh.

Professor Gendler introduces Aristotle's conception of virtue as a structuring one's life so that one's instinctive responses line up with one's reflective commitments.

Rogen and Goldberg seem to have distilled religion into a conventional, generic, common-sense conception of virtue that's devoid of doctrine and that they reinscribe in the popular mythological trappings of Christianity.

This account of Kant's conception of virtue is grounded in six related theses about virtue that Kant advances.

On Kant's conception of virtue, virtue is the form in which a being with a non-holy will expresses her supreme commitment to morality.

The fact that Plato insists on the shortcomings of a purely 'technical' conception of virtue suggests that he was at least facing up to these problems.

Adams steers a middle road between "no character traits at all" and the exacting standard of the Aristotelian conception of virtue which, because of its emphasis on phronesis, requires a high level of character integration.