Sentence examples for full virtue from inspiring English sources
Indeed, the canonical texts all stress the difficulty of achieving full virtue.
He appears to have thought that education will bring only an elite minority to full virtue, and that the mass of humanity must be kept in line with the threat of severe punishment.
The ordinary usage, or the reliance on motivation by inclination, gives us what Aristotle calls "natural virtue"—a proto version of full virtue awaiting perfection by phronesis or practical wisdom.
In defense of his own internalist thesis, involving counterfactual motivation under the condition of sound deliberation from full information, Williams (1995) raises an objection of this kind against McDowell's rival claim involving the condition of full virtue.
For a recent defense of the claims that non-philosophers in the Republic have a meaningful sort of ordinary virtue that nonetheless falls short of full virtue, and that Plato's views of ordinary virtue in the Republic and the Laws are importantly continuous, see Kraut (2010).
Advised by seers, the king was able to tell her she was about to give birth to a strong, courageous son full of virtue.
And I think it's really threatening to feel like, wow, you mean I'm not as full of virtue and goodness as I thought I was?" NOTORIOUS: What Justin Bieber is to today's tween girls, the Duran Duran bassist John Taylor was to their mothers in the 1980s.
But in my opinion, this marketing doesn't live up to its full potential by virtue of its placement.
Moreover, to possess, fully, such a disposition is to possess full or perfect virtue, which is rare, and there are a number of ways of falling short of this ideal (Athanassoulis 2000).
Sonya, though a prostitute, is full of Christian virtue and is only driven into the profession by her family's poverty.
Rambunctious cadet, bomber pilot, prisoner-of-war, torture victim, senator, presidential nominee: these roles have provided a magnificent arena in which to rehearse the full range of virtues and vices.
