In Hume's language, universal traits like benevolence, kindliness, and love for one's children are "natural" virtues, while socially necessary traits like courage, honesty, justice, and loyalty are "artificial" virtues; that is, they are engendered by our need to live with one another.
They also find the notion of studying only universal traits perplexing: in studies of animal behavior, a standard procedure is to study how traits vary in different environmental circumstances and to explore the effects of different traits on reproduction.
Such a framework will almost certainly accommodate a substantial amount of the evidence included in a review, given the universal traits of human behaviour and decision-making that influence health behaviours and are reflected in such models.
The behavior of hydration water in ultramicroporous carbon clearly demonstrates the same universal traits that characterize surface (hydration) water in other materials that are surface-hydrated.
The empirical test of a human universal is to show that it occurs in all humans; hence, much of the evidence for universal traits comes from anthropology (Brown 2000).
Mr. Burns's time in Vietnam attracted him to the material, which he said captured the universal traits of men at war.
Ion Luca Caragiale first introduced Mitică to his readers in an eponymous sketch of 1900, where he evidenced the character's universal traits and indicates that the first name is enough to define the character.
And while finding someone who is fluent in the special issues that gay and lesbians confront is important, there are some universal traits that are important to look for regardless of sexual orientation.
Only maritime law, although nationally codified, preserved some of its universal traits.
Generosity and support are far more universal traits than many think, he said.
