Sentence examples for concerning virtues from inspiring English sources

Extracts from other books have been preserved in two Byzantine compilations made by order of the Emperor Constantine Porphyrogenitus about A.D. 950, one entitled Concerning the Embassies and the other Concerning Virtues and Vices.

In 1699, John Toland published an early version of Shaftesbury's Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit (IVM).

He did write one work the Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit that has the kind of clearly-telegraphed thesis development and argumentation we've come to expect from a philosophical treatise.

It was during this period that he rewrote the Inquiry concerning Virtue or Merit and completed versions of A Letter concerning Enthusiasm (LCE), Sensus Communis: An Essay on the Freedom of Wit and Humour (SC), The Moralists (M) and Soliloquy, or Advice to an Author (SA).

She assigns its origins to the eve of the 18th century with Lord Shaftesbury's conservative and moralistic Inquiry Concerning Virtue or Merit.

In order to earn a living, Diderot undertook translation work and in 1745 published a free translation of the Inquiry Concerning Virtue by the 3rd Earl of Shaftesbury, whose fame and influence he spread in France.

The "Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit," however, also understands happiness in terms of long-lasting and reliable mental pleasures.

Indeed, he concludes the "Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit" by arguing that the evidence identifying the superior mental enjoyments with the natural affections is "as great as that which is found in numbers or mathematics," since it survives even in the face of doubts about the existence of the external world ("Inquiry" 229).

In Camera Session And ISI 9. (S) XXXXXXXXXXXX confided that ISI, (Note: Pakistan's military intelligence. End note), during the in camera session of the parliament recently, had briefed lawmakers and senior GOP officials concerning the virtues of some taliban elements versus the "real militants".

More importantly the theological setting of his work results in a number of distinctions concerning the virtues that pertain to human life and happiness.

One challenge here concerns whether virtues such as these can be defined precisely enough to permit relative rankings of explanatory goodness.