Sentence examples for ethical virtue from inspiring English sources

In keeping with the rabbinic understanding of Torah, study also was viewed as an ethical virtue.

Aristotle had it right: The only way human beings can develop true character is through constant practice, until the ethical virtue itself becomes habit.

It makes a near ethical virtue out of an aesthetic practice of refusal (perhaps extending, disconcertingly, to notions of physical aesthetics in which obesity is associated with poverty and to be too rich is to be too thin).

And while there's certainly truth in that - marketers have certainly latched onto the concept, not least the controversial company PayPerPost - it's also a bit rich to assume that every journalist or publication in America is a paragon of ethical virtue (or indeed unaffected by outside influences).

Ethical virtue is thus fundamentally epistemological.

Ethical virtue is fully developed only when it is combined with practical wisdom (1144b14 17).

Weber suggested two sets of ethical virtues that a proper political education should cultivate — the ethic of conviction (Gesinnungsethik) and the ethic of responsibility (Verantwortungsethik).

(No one has ever been more eloquent about the ethical virtues of Jesus of Nazareth).

Despite the ethical virtues associated with going tipless, restaurant owners' primary motivation to do so is likely financial.

In Leonard's world, you can tell a good guy, meanwhile, not by traditional ethical virtues necessarily, but by the way he carries himself, and how he is able to outspeak his enemies.

Accepting Aristotle's division of philosophy into theoretical (physics and metaphysics) and practical (ethics and politics), he finds that the Sharīʿah teaches both to perfection: abstract knowledge commanded as the perception of God, and practice the ethical virtues the law enjoins (Commentary on Plato's Republic).