In 1891, Francis Bellamy left a Boston pulpit to work with an admirer of his, the publisher of The Youth's Companion, a mass-circulation family magazine devoted to instilling virtue in young people.
But much of his speech was devoted to extolling the virtues of hereditary peers, such as himself.
A Madea Halloween with a stopwatch just to see how much of it is devoted to extolling the virtues of corporal punishment in child rearing.
One recent town-square meeting, in fact, was devoted to the aesthetic virtues of the Golden Gate Bridge.
Perfect happiness, he says, consists in contemplation; but he indicates that the life devoted to practical thought and ethical virtue is happy in a secondary way.
Shaftesbury, like most teleologically-minded philosophers, held that the end or telos of human nature is virtue, and much of his writing is devoted to an explication of his conception of virtue.
These are dialogues devoted to ethical inquiries into the virtues, e.g., what is courage, or what is justice?
The first book was devoted to an analysis of two necessary conditions: virtue (virtus), which requires piety and goodness; and prudence (prudentia) which is dependent on use and historical memory.
and by his characterisation of the ideal agent as someone devoted to a life of benevolence and virtue.
This emerges with clarity in the first book, devoted to ethics, where Giles' classification of virtues is heavily dependent on the Summa Theologiae and, therefore, on Aquinas' reinterpretation of the Aristotelian heritage.
