The art avoids fuzzy mystical-romantic interpretation by virtue of the low, tacky buzz of the industrial tubes, and by the enforced choreography that frustrates one's desire to walk straight through each building.
So, if I am wondering whether I am a toxic person, I need to ask myself: "What does toxicity look like to me?" Making any interpretation of behaviour means, by virtue of being a human being with a wildly complex brain, automatically bringing ourselves into the equation.
However, as advocates of virtue ethics interpretations acknowledge, there are also substantial differences between Mencius and any Western virtue ethics.
It is possible to construct an interpretation that acknowledges the central importance of virtue and the cultivation of character in Buddhism within an overall framework that is consequentialist.
There was consternation that the heroine was an amoral seductress rather than a woman of virtue; Galli-Marié's interpretation of the role was described by one critic as "the very incarnation of vice".
For some other works that advocate a virtue ethics interpretation of Confucianism, see Angle 2012, Sim 2007, Van Norden 2007, and Yu 2007.
This is one of Valla's major claims against the Stoics and the Peripatetics, who at least in Valla's interpretation— regarded virtue as the end of life, that is, the goal which is sought for its own sake.
The word "initial" suggests the verb "initiate," and one interpretation of Emerson's claim that "all virtues are initial" is that virtues initiate historically developing forms of life, such as those of the Roman nobility or the Confucian junxi.
The philosophical foundation for the claim that the temperature of women's bodies is a sign of their virtue is an interpretation of Aristotle's natural philosophy.
Moreover, by virtue of his interpretation of the moral principle as the principle of pure practical reason, Kant is able to redeem the ordinary sense of moral requirements as over-riding, as potentially opposed to the claims of one's happiness, and thus as different in kind from the deliverances of prudential reasoning.
