Sentence examples for pursuing virtue from inspiring English sources

This is what Descartes called "pursuing virtue" and Spinoza "freedom from bondage," but they shared the view that the emotions are crucial to the good life, conceived both eudaimonistically and morally.

Would you pursue virtue over material wealth?

Ms. Catterson presents her 88th dance, "Crowd Pleaser," an hourlong exploration of the struggle to pursue virtue in today's political climate.

To do that is to pursue virtue in a perfect manner" (art. 153; CSM I 384).

Socrates nevertheless has strong opinions about virtues, opinions that guide his search for definitions for example, that courage is noble (Laches 193d) and that we should pursue virtue above all else.

The first interpretation implies that the human being has been determined to be good to actually pursue virtue: thus, the human being's moral status is a settled matter.

Only if man pursues virtue, a component of which is indeed love, does Emerson believe that man can be in harmony with all of God's creation.

In addition, in his remarkable lecture "Religion" in 1836, Emerson even portrayed Confucius, the Chinese philosopher, as among a class of heroes who pursued virtue rather than "worldly riches".

They're just repeating the old slogans about stable prices and fiscal responsibility, with no narrative at all about how pursuing those virtues can be consistent with European recovery.

"Yes, there would have been a certain amount of convenience in that, but I actually think in many respects the process that we'll need to pursue by virtue of the court's decision today, is the right one.

A new conscious capitalism is an emerging philosophy, directed to pursuing ethical behaviors (Virtue Ethics).