The phrase "perfect virtue" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who embodies all virtues and possesses exceptional moral excellence. Example: "The king was known for his perfect virtue, always making decisions that prioritized the well-being of his people and upholding justice and fairness in all his actions."
8. Whether divine moral perfection should be understood as perfect goodness, perfect virtue, or an optimal combination of goodness and virtue, depends upon whether the correct theory of morality is consequentialist, deontological, or mixed (that is, a mixture of core elements of consequentialist and deontological moral theories).
I grew up feeling that for black people only perfect virtue would do.
If tolerance is not a perfect virtue, suited to every context, that doesn't mean it isn't a critical one.
"It is as though with Dostoyevsky he could drop the appearance of perfect virtue he felt he had to keep up before the English public".
Ms. Rand was an ardent atheist who considered the cross a symbol of how "a man of perfect virtue" sacrificed himself for a bunch of losers.
Following (and adapting) Aristotle, virtue ethicists draw a distinction between full or perfect virtue and "continence", or strength of will.
This is only an initial ordination and Yinxi still needed an additional period to perfect his virtue, thus Laozi gave him three years to perfect his Dao.
In this way, even those who reject the ambitious positive project of trying to perfect human virtue seem at least committed to the negative project of aiming to minimize the influence of biasing factors on our moral psychology.
Rejecting Shankara's conception of reality, Ramanuja defended the thesis that brahman is a being with infinitely perfect excellent virtues, a being whose perfection cannot be exceeded.
The sage — someone perfected in virtue — would have no emotions in this sense, no feelings that carried him beyond reason's true assessment.
It's the perfect mix of virtue and magic, of hurrah and heave ho".
