First, while (2) classifies being Obama as extrinsic, (3) plausibly classifies it as intrinsic, since it is plausible that something is Obama in virtue of how that thing itself is.
In any plausible account of loyalty as a virtue there must be openness to corrective criticism on the part of both the subject and object of loyalty.
Vanguard's High Yield Corporate would be a plausible candidate; it has the added virtue of a low expense ratio (0.28% of assets a year, compared to Fidelity's 0.75%), and has done better over the last three years.
Before 1974, it was plausible to argue that there was some virtue in having a debt limit because it forced Congress to acknowledge the consequences of deficit spending from time to time.
Therefore, the virtue ethics interpretation appears more plausible when applied to the Theravāda than when applied to the Mahāyāna.
Second, and closely related, it is plausible that a complete epistemology must feature both faculty-virtues and trait-virtues.
Hunt's film, made quickly and on a low budget, is full of traditional virtues — sympathetic and complex characters, plausible situations, evocative locations, committed acting, painful moral dilemmas — everything but a touch of mad beauty and a raison d'être.
He sets the standards for good manners, proper behavior, and gifts the iconic animal characters, a scare crow, a tin man and a lion with human virtues... all seem impossible but plausible; a brain, a heart, and courage.
Rashdall and Ross called the higher-level values they generated virtues and vices, as it is indeed plausible to do; surely benevolence and compassion are virtuous and sadism vicious.
Dworkin makes a plausible case for the strikingly implausible idea that equality is the sovereign political virtue, and then illustrates this claim with sharply pointed discussions of such topics as abortion, affirmative action and the role of money in politics.
