Sentence examples for grounds of virtue from inspiring English sources

What Scott praises is, in effect, granola cinema, abstemious films that are made to look good for you but are no less sweetened than mass-market products, that cut off a wide range of aesthetic possibilities and experiences on ostensible grounds of virtue.

Aristotle grounds his account of virtue in his theory about the soul — a topic to which he devotes a separate treatise, de Anima.

This account of Kant's conception of virtue is grounded in six related theses about virtue that Kant advances.

Plutarch argues that the crucial difference between the Platonic and the Stoic understanding of virtue is grounded in their different conceptions of soul as the source of human agency (De virtute morali 441C-E).

Training of researchers should be grounded in a strong foundation of virtue ethics and resources should be made available to enhance knowledge and awareness of various forms of scientific misconduct.

But this reading is not obvious; taken by itself, the dialogue seems to end on ground that is hostile to the unity of virtue.

The analysis presented here was indebted to many of the principles and methods of grounded theory (including initial line-by-line coding (Glaser, 1978) and iterative memo writing), though departed from grounded theory by virtue of our prior formulation of certain overall objectives that shaped how the study was designed and carried out (see Charmaz, 2006).

In "The Protestant Ethic," Max Weber pointed out that the foundational values of the nation were grounded in the virtue of work, work, work.

BGR Gabara sent an email a week later declining the business, on the grounds "that by virtue of taking on the Uzbek account we would do a disservice to our existing client, the government of Kazakhstan.

Mr. Khodorkovsky is no paragon of virtue.

Hers is a story of virtue victorious.