Regarding Virtue, see the discussion later in this subsection.
This is one of Valla's major claims against the Stoics and the Peripatetics, who at least in Valla's interpretation— regarded virtue as the end of life, that is, the goal which is sought for its own sake.
The classical Greek and Roman Cynics regarded virtue as the only necessity for happiness, and saw virtue as entirely sufficient for attaining happiness.
By forgoing the fruits of cooperation, Mr. Suozzi has ignored Mayor Bloomberg's lesson regarding the virtues of diplomacy and declined $8 million in legitimate refinance savings offered by the State Senate.
In the tradition of Socratic moral theory, the Stoics regard virtues like courage and justice, and so on, as knowledge or science within the soul about how to live.
Arguing that moral virtues truly have no gender, Mary Wollstonecraft regards "feminine" virtues as perversions of these true virtues and laments women's conscription into a bogus ideal (Wollstonecraft 1792).
Debate and differences of opinion continue to exist regarding the virtue of critical appraisal, or evaluation of the methodological quality of qualitative studies [ 6, 23, 24].
"Masculine" traits are therefore regarded as virtues in men and (often) vices in women, while "feminine" traits are regarded as vices in men and virtues in women.
Thrift, saving, and even parsimony were regarded as virtues, for only by these means could capital be created.
Moreover, he claimed that what pagan authors regarded as virtues were in fact vices unless they were developed for the love of God.
The (putative) cultural variation in character traits regarded as virtues is no greater indeed markedly less than the cultural variation in rules of conduct, and different cultures have different ideas about what constitutes happiness or welfare.
