Sentence examples for excellence of character from inspiring English sources

It was a certificate of merit for "excellence of character," sent along with a report card showing a grade point average of 96.4.

The administrators at Kellenberg cannot truly believe that requesting to be excused from singing in the spring concert is grounds for expelling a girl whom they themselves described as possessing "excellence of character".

Such ideals of action and moral excellence of character need not rise to the level of the moral saint or moral hero.

By calling excellence of character a state, Aristotle means that it is neither a feeling nor a capacity nor a mere tendency to behave in specific ways.

But for Fell, the ability to hearken to that light implicitly requires that women possess a natural capacity to discern the truth for themselves, to exercise strength of will, and to exhibit moral virtue or excellence of character.

When we speak of a moral virtue or an excellence of character, the emphasis is not on mere distinctiveness or individuality, but on the combination of qualities that make an individual the sort of ethically admirable person he is.

Suppose we think of virtues in general as excellences of character.

Thus, moral virtues (excellences of character) or vices arise through habituation.

Appraisal respect, by contrast, is an attitude of positive appraisal of a person or their merits, which are features of persons that manifest excellences of character.

At the beginning of Book II of the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle tells us that there are two different kinds of human excellences, excellences of thought and excellences of character.

His phrase for excellences of character — êthikai aretai — we usually translate as "moral virtue(s)" or "moral excellence(s)." The Greek êthikos (ethical) is the adjective cognate with êthos (character).