Sentence examples for morally virtuous from inspiring English sources

However, he is not claiming that the only reason to be morally virtuous is that moral virtue is a constituent of happiness.

I believe it is a morally virtuous thing to do and we ought to facilitate it.

First, one has to live a morally virtuous life and second, the adept must prepare himself philosophically.

For Ockham, acts of will are morally virtuous either extrinsically, i.e. derivatively, through their conformity to some more fundamental act of will, or intrinsically.

The sole difference is that the prospect of reward or punishment can induce people to act as the morally virtuous would (as justice requires, for example), but cannot induce them to act as if they had the natural abilities.

Thus when he says that happiness consists in an activity in 'accordance with virtue' (kat' aretên; EN 1098a18), Aristotle means that it is a kind of excellent activity, and not merely morally virtuous activity.

Furthermore, whether or not a particular act of forgiveness would be morally appropriate, virtuous, or even prudent for the victim, pressuring a victim to forgive is widely regarded as problematic (Govier and Verwoerd 2002b).

Also, though physicians may not be morally perfect (virtuous in the Stoic sense), they know what is "preferable" for their patients, i.e., to get well, go home and be with their families.

However, the Stoics believed what was "good", was also morally perfect (virtue, virtuous acts and virtuous people).

Ecofeminist virtue ethics asks what a morally good or virtuous person would do, and which character traits, attitudes or dispositions a virtuous person would exhibit, in order to predispose the nonhuman natural environment to survive and "flourish" in a healthy way.

The mistake that Palin made was to cast small towns as more virtuous, morally superior in their struggle.