Sentence examples for reason and virtue from inspiring English sources

The possibility of good government, they argued, lay in man's capacity to devise political institutions that would compensate for deficiencies in both reason and virtue in the ordinary conduct of politics.

Schlesinger is brilliantly succinct in recognizing the roots of liberalism in the Augustinian tradition as rendered by Reinhold Niebuhr, who taught him that "man's pretensions to reason and virtue... are ineradicably tainted by self-interest and self-love".

Might it be, he speculated, because death was, "in practical outcome, a negation of the future and of the hope it holds out for a society of reason and virtue?" Mr. Trilling had in mind the "progressives" of the 1930s and '40s, who were lit with utopian dreams and intoxicated, in many instances, by the Soviet "experiment".

On this basis, Spinoza identifies reason and virtue.

Aquinas claims that Aristotle understood that a complete life in accord with reason and virtue in this life is incomplete or imperfect happiness.

Insofar as he describes the life in accord with reason and virtue in this life as imperfect, he must be suggesting that it is in some sense faulty, not true or real happiness.

Scudéry also began her philosophical initiation with the reading of Montaigne, who would influence her later sympathy with skepticism, and Plutarch (in the French translation by Jacques Amyot), who introduced her to the Stoic philosophy of reason, will, and virtue.

Rather, if all goes well, a human being comes to value reason and hence virtue as the perfection of reason above all other things because reason is the most important part of human nature.

In the same way that the citizen had to follow reason (ratio), the ruler had to apply reason and political virtue to government, but first of all to his own life, since if "he desires to subject all things to himself, he should subject himself to reason first".

Indebted to Descartes' theory of the passions this argues that knowledge of virtue is attainable by reason, and the pursuit of virtue entails the control of the passions by the soul.

Committed to the reign of reason and ancient Roman virtues, the republican revolutionaries named the edifice the Panthéon and dedicated it to the cult of the nation.