Such "material virtue" traditions held that the body-mind was constructed of qi and that embodied self-cultivation practices could transform qi.
Material virtue traditions also had important links with Daoist texts, southern schools, and the "moralization" of health in traditions that culminated in the Huang Di neijing.
Mark Csikzentmihalyi has argued that "material virtue" traditions drawing on yang sheng techniques appear prominently in the Mencius and in two versions of the Wu xing 五行 or "Five Kinds of Action" recovered from Guodian and Mawangdui.
Designers are widely frustrated by a lack of consistent, reliable services that can authenticate green materials' virtues.
I know that it gets harder to believe in the appeal of non-material virtues in our world of monster-size plasma TV sets, Access Hollywood and Donald Trump-ery; hard to believe that we are nothing more than what we have acquired; harder still to believe that we are a part of what we unabashedly used to call the family of man.
Ironically, in Pocock's adaptation of Baron's thesis, applied to Anglo-Saxon materials, virtue is opposed to property, and it is the urban, bourgeois entrepreneurs and the chancery of the modernizing state, the very creators of civic humanism in Baron's mind, that are on the wrong side of the fence.
Specific tactile textures are peculiar to every material by virtue of its manufacture or natural composition, but they may be altered to produce a variety of expressive qualities.
After all, such things as health and wealth cannot just be dismissed since they are something like the raw material of virtue.
The porous Ti6Ta4Sn scaffold is thought to be a promising orthopedic implant material by virtue of its excellent biomechanical properties, in vitro bioactivity and biocompatibility highly preferred by osteoblast-like cells.
Nanotwinned metals have the potential for use as structural materials by virtue of having a combination of high strength as well as reasonable ductility and damage tolerance.
Yet other ontologies are contextual or social constructivist, proposing that architectural objects exist, beyond their status as structured materials, in virtue of ways our reality is framed, psychologically, socially, or culturally (per Hartmann 1953, Margolis 1958).
