Sentence examples for held virtue from inspiring English sources

Even if they held virtue in more esteem, the Cyrenaics would nonetheless not be eudaimonists since they deny that happiness is the end of life.

Thus, he is a eudaimonist in that he holds virtue is indispensable to happiness; but he does not identify virtuous activity, in whole or in part, with happiness.

*Socrates held that virtue is a kind of knowledge and that anyone who knows what virtue is cannot help but act virtuously.

I doubt not that many valuable titles are now held by virtue of the provisions of these statutes.

"In the dark of night, this officer repeatedly abused the arrest power that he held by virtue of his position as a police officer to prey on vulnerable women," Alan Vinegrad, the United States attorney for Brooklyn, said in a statement.

Zeno held that virtue is practical knowledge (phronêsis) in various forms.

He interpreted this provision to mean only that the commissioners could not grant title after one year, not that the property rights held by virtue of the Spanish grants were void.

For this particular study, the medical ethnographer on the team guided the informaticians through the RAP methodology in such a way that we became well aware of assumptions we held by virtue of our training and expertise.

These concepts were inherently difficult to define but disagreements may reflect differences in working models of health and illness the different team members held by virtue of their professional training and day to day work with patients.

While Plato and Aristotle maintain that virtue is constitutive of happiness, Epicurus holds that virtue is the only means to achieve happiness, where happiness is understood as a continuous experience of the pleasure that comes from freedom from pain and from mental distress.

Neither could God hold any virtues, as a virtue would be the disposition to follow his own commands – if he cannot logically command himself, then he cannot logically have any virtues.