We suggest that it is strategically smart for an organization to make sure that stories about the practice of virtue are actively and intentionally shared throughout the organization.
He said he believed single-sex dorms would "improve the practice of virtue," reducing binge drinking and "the culture of hooking up".
For a tradition of ethical thought from Aristotle and Aquinas to Hegel and Marx, human self-fulfilment springs from the practice of virtue, and this happens purely for its own sake.
The first teaches the means by which a soul may advance toward perfection by destroying the image of sin and forming the image of Christ through the practice of virtue.
Though the lesson is not worth the cost, the Taliban's crimes against memory and spirit--which are more than matched by its crimes against men and women--are a reminder that the profession of religion and the practice of virtue need not go together.
For Gandhi, nonviolence is part of a total practice of virtue.
He said, "Whenever I want ren, it is as close as the palm of my hand". Yet he also stated that his best student, Yan Hui, was the only person he had known who had exhibited ren for any significant length of time, and then only for three months, suggesting that the attainment and practice of the virtue was an arduous or even elusive task.
Yet he also stated that his best student, Yan Hui, was the only person he had known who had exhibited ren for any significant length of time, and then only for three months, suggesting that the attainment and practice of the virtue was an arduous or even elusive task.
Now, the judgment that a human being is "not a person", made in the wake of that individual's persistent unethical behavior, implies that the practice of moral virtue is considered intrinsic to the conception of a person held in Akan or Yoruba moral thought.
On the contrary, integrity involves the practice of intellectual virtues, such as practical wisdom (phronesis, the reflection on the good and its embodiment), relational/psychological virtues such as empathy, as well as moral virtues, such as justice.
The principal teachings of Confucius, as contained in the Analects, emphasize the practice of moral virtues, especially humaneness or love (jen) and filiality (hsiao).
