Sentence examples for native endowment from inspiring English sources

Although native endowment is necessary for realized capacity, it is not sufficient.

Of course, if the native endowment is extremely poor, there is not much that can be done.

With regard to qi, Zhu Xi held that even though goodness is within human nature, individuals differed with respect to their native endowment of energy stuff, and that this, togther with differences in their family and social circumstances, affected the development of their good natures.

In the long run, native talent endowment and family of origin social class position run together for all members of society.

One is that the rank order of each person's genetically given native talent endowment mirrors the rank order of each person's family of origin income.

But my native talent endowment may unfortunately leave me with poor value-forming and ambition-forming and choice-making ability, so that shortfalls in my condition that result from my acting on my ambitions may just express a shortfall in my native talent endowment.

Dworkin distinguishes between my circumstances, for which I am not reasonably held responsible, and my ambitions, for which I am reasonably held responsible, and includes native talent endowment among circumstances.

If any two people in society have the same native talent endowment and the same ambition, they have the same prospects for competitive success, and their family of origin incomes will also be the same.

If there are 100 persons in the current generation of individuals and your native talent endowment is overall 40th-best, your family of origin income is also 40th-best, and the same holds for every other member of the current generation.

Another possible mechanism is that ambition formation tracks family of origin income position (via some process that does not itself violate FEO), so that no persons with the same native talent endowment and different family of origin incomes have the same ambition, so their having different prospects of competitive success does not violate FEO.

You are not owed more from society by way of fair shares in virtue of the fact that your ambitions are large rather than small, demanding rather than undemanding, but you are owed more from society by way of fair shares in virtue of the fact that your initial resource holdings are scant or the fact that your native talent endowment is more meager than that of others.