Sentence examples for natural virtue from inspiring English sources

Jefferson (and Huddleston) believed that the agrarian model -- being free both politically (civil rights) and economically (self-sufficiency) -- led to natural virtue and equality.

Rousseau's "Émile," the book that became the bible of both Edgeworth and Day, had been written to demonstrate how the French philosopher's doctrine of natural virtue might work in practice.

But is this sort of natural virtue really adequate to those moral/political concerns that transcend intimate personal relationships?

Still, Hume makes things difficult for natural virtue by conceiving individual and social justice in highly conservative terms.

The ordinary usage, or the reliance on motivation by inclination, gives us what Aristotle calls "natural virtue"—a proto version of full virtue awaiting perfection by phronesis or practical wisdom.

Whatever, exactly, the logic of this argument is supposed to be, Hume's intent is to show that if we imagine equity to be a natural virtue we commit ourselves to a sophistry, and therefore honesty is instead man-made.

Only liberate money motives from the world by giving everyone the same, and imagine how people's "natural virtues" would be set free from "trade union and governing class corruption and tyranny".

Bloom's answer was to deepen the study of the American founders and to renew a classical pedagogy that weaves eros and intellect into the love of knowing and natural virtues.

In Hume's language, universal traits like benevolence, kindliness, and love for one's children are "natural" virtues, while socially necessary traits like courage, honesty, justice, and loyalty are "artificial" virtues; that is, they are engendered by our need to live with one another.

Thus there is a distinction between "infused natural virtues" and "acquired natural virtues".

Natural virtues are divided into moral virtues and intellectual virtues.