He has told those veterans, he said, that they can aspire to become bodhisattvas, enlightened beings who practice virtue by helping others toward enlightenment.
Those who would blame fantasists such as Nolan for fixating on or sentimentalizing the comforts of family life, or for exhibiting fantasies fit for kids, are missing the point: it's what remains after they've wrecked romance, and is also the domain of their greatest responsibility, and the one in which they might still practice virtue (so to speak, "into the minds of babes").
Individuals would learn and practice virtue in the home, virtue that would not only make them self-sufficient, but also prompt them to feel responsible for the citizens of their society.
Each story is named after a sin or a virtue, but the associations we make with, say, fidelity, are subverted by Baxter's complex characters, who practice virtues or commit sins in ways that couldn't easily by praised or criticized.
The moral education and the rescue and cultivation of qualities and attitudes of a virtuous person required for good medical practice (virtue-based ethics) has been a pressing need [ 1- 4].
One who practices purificatory virtue is no longer subject to the incontinent desires whose restraint constitutes mere civic or popular virtue.
But the clinician has not taken into account the possible impact of the Hawthorne Effect on the trial results that guide his practice- patients in clinical trials appear to fare better than those in routine practice by virtue of their participation.
He said he believed single-sex dorms would "improve the practice of virtue," reducing binge drinking and "the culture of hooking up".
Though Hans advises the restless young Mahmoud that patience is necessary in all things, from the game of dominoes to the art of baking, "Sixteen Wounded" does not itself practice this virtue.
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.
