Sentence examples for language of virtue from inspiring English sources

His reputation has long suffered by comparison with his contemporary and rival, Thomas Jefferson, who articulated an influential language of virtue; one which continues to inform America's self-image of butter-wouldn't-melt innocence.

At the same time, his proposed improvements of the tradition are related to a broader argument that the modern language of freedom, rights, and democracy should not and will not replace the traditional language of virtue, responsibility, and benevolent care, but rather be enriched by it (2013).

For in order for the language of the virtues to be intelligible, it must be grounded in a thick account of the good.

This qualitative difference is largely the result of our possession of language and, by virtue of language, an ability to have thoughts about thoughts and to imagine alternatives to our current reality.

Nathan says he sees bios "written by white people" that refer to "sexual racism...both in terms of exclusionary language and in terms of virtue signaling".

In terms of implementation, KSRC and SRC were coded in Matlab language by virtue of the OMP package [ 45].

English will remain the world's common language, by virtue of having got there first and because it has adapted well to the role.

Blue, green, yellow, and so on do not exist as distinct colours in nature, waiting to be labelled differently, as it were, by different languages; they come into existence, for the speakers of particular languages, by virtue of the fact that those languages impose structure upon the continuum of colour and assign to three of the areas thus recognized the words "blue," "green," "yellow".

It is because liberal democracies do not operate with a thick notion of the good that the language of rights has supplanted that of virtue.

Since names are only conventionally significant, which concept is associated with a given name depends in part on the psychological conditioning of language-users, in virtue of which Abelard can treat signification as both a causal and a normative notion: the word 'rabbit' ought to cause native speakers of English to have the concept of a rabbit upon hearing it.

Furthermore, the language of justice and individual rights supplanted that of virtue.