Sentence examples for produce virtue from inspiring English sources

But the main work of politics is not to produce virtue, and personal virtue does not of itself produce good politics.

Kant considered critical conscience to be an internal court in which our thoughts accuse or excuse one another; he acknowledged that morally mature people do often describe contentment or peace in the soul after following conscience to perform a duty, but argued that for such acts to produce virtue their primary motivation should simply be duty, not expectation of any such bliss.

This was the basic idea behind his proposal for a "moral equivalent to war," which was an attempt to find a way to produce virtues without connecting them to militarism.

One way to feel more sanguine about capitalism's influence is to be more welcoming of the variety the marketplace produces: virtue in the midst of plenty.

Alternatively, he may think that what produces virtue is not the content of one's action but the thoughts that go along with it.

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States did not have a very good record of producing moral virtue in rulers or subjects.

At the beginning of the 20th Century, James acknowledged that war and military service did produce certain virtues, such as courage and discipline.

In the initial stages, Pb(g) (Equations 4 and 5) will predominate and much less ZnO g) and Fe2O3 (s) will be produced by virtue of their different heats of formation ZnO (348.3 kJ/mol) and Fe2O3 (824.2 kJ/mol).

The Claps — a Roger and Johanna who immigrated to Dorchester in 1630 — produced a virtue-themed progeny that included Experience, Waitstill, Preserved, Hopestill, Wait, Thanks, Desire, Unite, and Supply, making them perhaps the Kardashians of Colonial Massachusetts.

But James hoped that there could be a non-military way of producing these virtues.