Sentence examples for only for virtue from inspiring English sources

Pantomime leaves room only for virtue and villainy, and the ritualised denunciations from the left seem increasingly true to the genre.

This is because, as Harris puts it, 'the sorts of traits or dispositions that seem to lead to wickedness or immorality are also the very same ones required not only for virtue but for any sort of moral life at all'.

Such considerations lead us to reject Harris's claim that 'the sorts of traits or dispositions that seem to lead to wickedness or immorality are also the very same ones required not only for virtue but for any sort of moral life at all' (p. 104).

A very fundamental problem, which has not been much discussed in the literature on moral enhancement, is that the sorts of traits or dispositions that seem to lead to wickedness or immorality are also the very same ones required not only for virtue but for any sort of moral life at all.

Such studies pose a problem not only for the commonsense conception of character traits, but also for virtue ethics, which appear to assume the possibility of achieving stable character traits that are virtues.

Socrates and the Stoics argued that only cognitive states were necessary for virtue, whereas Plato and Aristotle argued that both cognitive and affective states were necessary.

Linda Zagzebski (2010) provides an "exemplarist" semantics for virtue terms that only gets off the ground if there are in fact many virtuous people.

Now, I'm not saying that's true for everyone, but for me, it was only by virtue of being an outsider that I stumbled upon that possibility.

I grew up feeling that for black people only perfect virtue would do.

Only by virtue of working for years inside the box of traditional social media were David and Chrys able to figure out a way to think outside of it.

They were also suspicious of the idea that only educated elites have the cultivated judgment necessary for virtue.