Sentence examples for notion of virtue from inspiring English sources

In some ways I'm going back to Aristotle and the notion of virtue ethics.

O'Hanlon always speculated that his travels were connected to a Protestant notion of virtue in suffering.

Important too is the notion of "virtue", which also resists understanding, but is most certainly a problem for philosophy.

Virtue ethics, Approach to ethics that takes the notion of virtue (often conceived as excellence) as fundamental.

Now what Annas notices is that there are two particular features of flow experience that are actually central to the ancient harmony-of-the-soul notion of virtue.

The criminal, or criminals, involved in this act have appointed themselves moral judge, juror and executioner, seeing fit to impose a personal notion of virtue on all of society".

"Children of Desired Sex" (1987) challenges the Indian custom of aborting female fetuses; "India Cabaret" examines the hypocrisy of male notions of "virtue".

And by doing that, the two collaborators really did challenge notions of virtue in ways that remain relevant.

Ironic references to heroism and the hero suggest that Gobo might be some kind of ordering principle, perhaps based on antique notions of virtue.

Still other researchers are tracing the history of blue pigments in human culture, and the role those pigments have played in shaping our notions of virtue, authority, divinity and social class.

He begins by admitting, as always, the limited powers of reason: by itself, reason can no more give us notions of virtue and vice than it can prove a necessary connection between events.