Lewis, a Christian apologist, understood that the natural law -- which gave us universally recognized virtues like justice, honesty and mercy -- was derived from the Bible.
From this point, the human being recognizes virtue and virtuous activity as the only human goods and acts for the sake of the good.
What we can say for certain is only that an ethos that permits us to appreciate the work of modernist painters also lets us recognize the virtues of Gee's Bend quilts, which another era might not have seen.
Sir Harold Alexander, Monty's superior as Middle East commander during El Alamein and then 18th Army Group commander in Tunisia, was viewed by the Americans as less condescending than Montgomery, but even he showed little willingness to recognize their virtues.
Michael McCue, a co-founder and the C.E.O. of Tellme Networks, has also come to appreciate that the most effective way to champion a disruptive technology is to recognize the virtues of diplomacy.
Their successors in the Russian mafia did, however, recognize the virtues of the G-Wagen, and adopted it -- in black, with blacked-out windows and a big 5-liter V-8 -- as the conveyance for bodyguards who trailed them through Russian streets.
I say it's because we are so divided into religious vs. secular tribes that we don't recognize the virtues and values people from across the political and spiritual spectrum have in common.
"While we recognize by virtue of his position that John is a public personality, we consider this a private matter," the statement added.
Kennedy called on Americans to recognize the virtue of their Russian counterparts, and thus the universal human interest in peace: "So, let us not be blind to our differences, but let us also direct attention to our common interests and the means by which those differences can be resolved.
Regulators should calm down and recognize the virtue of simplicity in the face of complexity.
