Sentence examples for guided by virtue from inspiring English sources
In the Analects (Lunyu《論語》), which contains the main teachings of Confucius, it said: "Guided by dictates of political authority, and regulated by punishment, people can get by without violating the law but have no sense of shame; guided by virtue, and regulated by li, people will have sense of shame and a standard of personal development" (Analects (Lunyu 《論語》2 3, in Cheng 2011b: 12).
It is a major civic group that says it is "open to all boys" and guided by virtues like honesty and respect for others.
At Osakana, like at Okonomi, Haraguchi is guided by the Japanese virtue of mottainai, or aversion to waste.
As for history, Webster had this answer: "If there ever was a government, which under the name of a republic or democracy, was generally guided by eminent wisdom, virtue and talents, it was a government of a mixed kind, in which an aristocratic branch existed independent of popular suffrage".
Since virtue is the state (hexis 443D) in which emotion is guided by reason, it follows that virtue requires training in how to make emotion right.
Legalism is perhaps best introduced as the opposite reaction to Analects 2.3, in which Confucius says that guiding the people by edicts and keeping them in line with punishments will keep them out of trouble but will give them no sense of shame; guiding them by virtue and keeping them in line with the rites will not only give them a sense of shame but enable them to reform themselves.
Thus, neo-Aristotelians like Nussbaum who emphasize the importance of "finely tuned and richly aware" particular discernment also regard that discernment as being guided by a set of generally describable virtues whose general descriptions will come into play in at least some kinds of cases (Nussbaum 1990).
The Confucian moral outlook mandates truthfulness as a basic ethical principle and a cardinal social virtue which physicians ought to be guided by.
The Bush era was guided by the maxim, "Conservation may be a sign of personal virtue but it is not a sufficient basis for a sound, comprehensive energy policy," and by the contention that global climate change was unproven.
"They are guided by foreigners".
