Ockham's discussion of conscience, prudence, and the virtues indicates that he follows Scotus's turn towards discussing conscience in relation to the virtues.
Hume has less to say about the role of moral sentiment in relation to the natural virtues but similar observations would seem to apply.
Perhaps trustworthiness is instead a disposition to respond to trust in appropriate ways, given "who one is in relation" to the trustor and given other virtues that one possesses or ought to possess (e.g., justice, compassion) (Potter 25).
Thus, it is the oil-driven engine of productivity in relation to the global oil reserve that the Federal Reserve uses to determine the value of its currency and, by virtue of US dollar hegemony, the world's currencies.
In relation to the previous step, RAVE.
The interpretive question of how li is central to self-cultivation is posed in particular about its relation to the chief virtue of ren.
They place tools and methods in relation to one another by virtue of an engineered structure.
The second danger is that it leads us to focus on the activities of one group – junior doctors – with limited ability to contextualise these within wider social processes; the risk is that this group is pathologised in relation to medical decision making by virtue of being the main focus of the research.
From this description we can see that some versions of human excellence have a problematic relation to the moral virtues.
But it is equally common, in relation to particular (putative) examples of virtues to give these truisms up.
