Sentence examples for for virtue that from inspiring English sources

The second interpretation of the view that the human being was created good (or, to be good), implies that the human being merely has the capacity for virtue: that is, could pursue good, but could also pursue evil.

When the intensity of our love matches the order among perfections, we have a right love that provides the basis for virtue, that is, a habitual inclination to love objects according to their perfections.

But sometimes evasiveness isn't a straightforward matter of wanting to keep out of trouble, or stick up for virtues that are in danger of being trampled.

I dreamed of rewarding him, for virtues that he would never possess, for helping me run this farm on model lines.

But mastery of definitions would be sufficient for the expert knowledge of virtue that Socrates disclaims, so either he lacks that mastery or his disclaimer is (as some hold) ironic.

In commenting on the notion of contingency in Aristotle's Prior Analytics, Alexander introduces the idea of stochastic technê — an idea important for the Stoic explanation of virtue that we have just seen.

Various cats were decorated with awards for combinations of virtues that included correct eye shape and proper size and bone structure.

I think the success of a movie like "Saving Private Ryan" is another sign, a sign of a new respect for the kind of virtues that were traditionally associated with patriotism or love of country.

One obvious objection to examinations is that they cannot test for the kinds of virtues that concerned Confucius -- flexibility, humility, compassion and public-spiritedness -- and that, ideally, would also characterize political decision-makers in the modern world.

In this sense, one might say that the so-called "value-freedom" (Wertfreiheit) is less a methodological principle for Weber than an ethical virtue that a personality fit for modern science must possess.

Patience is a virtue that, for better or worse, I am all too familiar with.