They put their faith in a rational elite and a moral avant-garde that would champion justice, virtue and equality by leading social and political revolutions.
The purpose of reform therefore will be to restore justice, virtue, and compassion to Muslim conditions.
Monier-Williams' Sanskrit-English Dictionary lists several, including: conduct, duty, right, justice, virtue, morality, religion, religious merit, good work according to a right or rule, etc.
But he also includes in this section a lengthy discussion of the cardinal virtues: prudence, fortitude, temperance (and the associated virtues of modesty, sobriety, continence, and virginity), and justice, virtues which one might argue have no direct connection with grace.
Big ideals - honour, justice, liberty, virtue, duty - were high on Robespierre's personal and political agenda from early adulthood.
In "The Book of Rites" he wrote that Chinese kings who led their people to a xiaokang lifestyle were pillars of courtesy, sincerity, justice and virtue.
The Western tragic view, which holds that the individual cannot understand or control the unseen forces of the universe, has no place in Chinese drama; the typical play concludes on a note of poetic justice with virtue rewarded and evil punished, thus showing the proper way of human conduct in a social world.
This is not a creation in which there are no real risks; our faith has always held that the inexhaustible love of God cannot compel justice or virtue; we are capable of doing immeasurable damage to ourselves as individuals, and it seems clear that we have the same terrible freedom as a human race.
The more one's benevolence expands to encompass the happiness of more and more others, the more one grows in justice and virtue, thereby increasing the moral good.
Socrates takes this as equivalent to showing that "justice is virtue and wisdom and that injustice is vice and ignorance" (350d).
In politics as elsewhere in life, truth, justice and virtue too often don't triumph.
