Sentence examples for on which virtue from inspiring English sources

In this account, that aspect of human nature on which virtue is based is fairly straightforward.

Within the context of the Woldemar, this conclusion also brings resolution to a question discussed in a dialogue (the Waldgespräch) introduced in the first part of the narration — the question, namely, of the extent to which virtue depends on either nature or art.

In their minds a link existed between terror and virtue: "virtue, without which terror is fatal; terror, without which virtue is powerless".

Think about which virtues are most important to you.

To trust in luck is to be courageous, and courage, the one essential virtue, on which all others depend, is also the one ambiguous virtue, since it is morally neutral: jerks have it as often as gentlemen.

Thus,the non-rational parts of the soul acquire reliable habits on which the moral virtues depend.

The kind of civic virtue on which social democratic states rely has traditionally been fostered in pious Protestant countries.

AND now, class, let us pause to name the virtues on which this country was built by our pioneering forebears.

Far from being a slur, it is intended as a tribute to the valorous warrior qualities of the original Indians – the virtues on which a fierce sport prides itself most.

This Problem of Good was, in the past century, raised specifically against views akin to the simple picture of pleasure, on which pleasure is valuable by virtue of its intrinsic nature, perhaps just because of the way it feels in its moment, and independently of our or other animals' actually desiring or pursuing it.

Aquinas accepts the Platonic-Aristotelian thesis that there are four virtues which are cardinal, that is on which the moral life and all other virtues hinge or depend: prudentia, justice, courage, and temperantia.