Sentence examples for levels of virtue from inspiring English sources

Suppose the government in some country steadfastly keeps out of the business of tracking the levels of virtue in its citizens.

The reader should be warned that my reference to the different levels of virtue, peace, etc. puts me at odds with many interpreters of Augustine.

Once again Campanella engages in an explicit polemic with Aristotle, who had excluded artisans, peasants and those involved in manual labor from the category of full citizenship and from the highest levels of virtue.

Some of his objections to desertism turn on difficulties that governments would face if they were to try to ensure a proper fit between citizens' levels of virtue and happiness.

There are many orderings and sub-orderings, and there are therefore different kinds or levels of peace, and (for beings capable of moral choice) different kinds or levels of virtue, justice and happiness.[14] True virtue presupposes obedience to the true God.

Morally right acts, he held, are those aimed at bringing about the highest good (summum bonum), a state in which people are rewarded with happiness in proportion to the level of virtue they achieve.

A number can then be assigned to each person indicating that person's level of virtue; persons assigned higher numbers have greater virtue.

Some hold that what makes any person fundamentally deserving of good or bad fortune is her level of virtue or moral merit.

2) puts theurgy on the highest level of virtue: philosophy can make us Intellect, while theurgy can unite us with the intelligibles, so that we act paradeigmatically (cf. Blank 2010, 659 660).

This indicates that Rawls was imagining (and trying to refute) a form of desertism that would saddle the government with the task of matching happiness levels to virtue levels.

The notion that the urge to splurge is fundamentally defensive death denial above and beyond the quite legitimate pursuit of material comfort and aesthetic pleasure is supported by both the historical record and contemporary empirical research.... Could the American Dream actually be just another psychopathological form of death denial raised to the level of civic virtue by cultural ideology?