Sentence examples for criterion of virtue from inspiring English sources

John Gay, an English biblical scholar and philosopher, held the will of God to be the criterion of virtue, but from God's goodness he inferred that God willed that each person should act so as to promote human happiness.

Gay held that since God wants the happiness of mankind, and since God's will gives us the criterion of virtue, "…the happiness of mankind may be said to be the criterion of virtue, but once removed" (R, 413).

And like Hobbes, Bentham used the concept of sovereignty to explain the unity of a legal system as well as the criteria of legal validity for that system (that is, the criteria in virtue of which any particular norm or rule was deemed part of the law).

The classic solution upon which most researchers can agree is to apply the "triangle of virtue" as success criteria: time, costs and quality (Ika 2009; Raz et al. 2002).

After adjustment, high-risk ethnicity (OR 1.01 [95% CI 0.70 1.44]) and vascular disease (OR 2.25 [0.86–5.91]) were not associated with increased frequency of screening in patients <45 years who met screening criteria by virtue of being obese and having an additional risk factor (Table 4).

Many organic compounds do not fulfil these criteria by virtue of their possessing polar functional groups.

The ideal of virtue is therefore not very helpful in providing us with criteria for supererogation and for its demarcation from duty.

The result is an account of virtue which discriminates among pleasures, as any virtue ethics should; but the criterion of discrimination reflects the distinction between being and becoming.

Note that despite the prominent place of virtues in Mohist ethics, the theory is not a form of virtue ethics, because the virtues are not taken as the basis for fundamental criteria of right action.

Mr. Khodorkovsky is no paragon of virtue.

Hers is a story of virtue victorious.