You could not put the book down without admiring Theodor Herzl's courage and practical achievements — his romance turned into a Congress, a bank, a diplomacy.
Obsessed with babies, Adela feels unworthy now to be a mother: "Motherhood requires a practical genius, a physical courage, a cleanness of soul, and an inconquerable creative instinct that not many women can hope for".
The key virtues of the Homeric warrior are courage and practical intelligence, which enable him to be an effective 'speaker of words and doer of deeds'.[3] Now this 'functional' conception of virtue, as we may call it, can easily come into conflict with Hesiodic ideas about justice.
Further, given that we must not only act, but act excellently or virtuously, it falls to the ethical theorist to determine what virtue or excellence consists in with respect to the individual human virtues, including, for instance, courage and practical intelligence.
Teri Agins, the author of "The End of Fashion," winced at the fashion mash-up, which seemed either a practical joke or a test of courage in the face of festive adversity.
His claim is that hot, thin, pure blood is best, because such blood correlates both with courage (manliness) and with practical wisdom (Parts of Animals II. 2 748a2–14).
To undertake such an expedition without the practical and spiritual help of comrades requires courage and a disregard for self-preservation rarely found.
It quickly becomes clear that Mouse is in a world created by his unconscious mind, and Violet – who loves reading – uses the wisdom she has gained from books to solve practical problems as well as to give herself courage.
Roberts and Wood (2007, part II) provide in-depth "maps" of several intellectual virtues and many corresponding vices, most notably: love of knowledge, firmness, courage, caution, humility, autonomy, generosity and practical wisdom.
