And, unlike in traditional romance, the reader is no longer simply expected to admire deeds of bravery and virtue, but instead is caught up in intense first-person testimony on the psychology of desire.
Although interesting, the only evidence the author is able to muster is a patchwork of unusual circumstances regarding a victim highly assimilated into German custom and culture and benefactors who in most cases performed their good deeds not so much because of virtue as of default.
That truth was often a moral or theological one, and to the extent that narratives related the deeds of men, proximity to an image of virtue or holiness would be considered worthy of imitation, and distance from it worthy of opprobrium.
The key virtues of the Homeric warrior are courage and practical intelligence, which enable him to be an effective 'speaker of words and doer of deeds'.[3] Now this 'functional' conception of virtue, as we may call it, can easily come into conflict with Hesiodic ideas about justice.
Machiavelli saw action not only as the goal of virtue but also (via historical understanding of great deeds of the past) as the basis for wisdom.
Mr. Khodorkovsky is no paragon of virtue.
Hers is a story of virtue victorious.
Moore G (2012) The virtue of governance, the governance of virtue.
They were visionaries of virtue.
Virtues and Vices of Virtue Epistemology: John Greco.35.
It meant the pursuit of virtue".
