Perhaps there are aesthetic norms that guide us to beliefs that have some sort of aesthetic merit, or that make us more beautiful in virtue of believing them.
Isango has in a recent press release tried to claim some sort of special status by virtue of a tenuous connection with the history of District Six.
Ray's ideas were opposed to other prevailing theories of the origin of fossils: that they were lusi naturae, "games of nature"; that they were formed by some sort of creative force or "Plastick Virtue" acting on the Earth; or that they had been made by God for His pleasure, or by God as models for living organisms, or by the Devil to tempt, frighten, or confuse people.
I was born about a year before the Six Day War and the occupation of the territories, and grew up during a time when many Israelis believed that the occupation would bring some sort of redemption to Israelis (by virtue of regaining control of the biblical land of our ancestors) and peace to the surrounding Palestinian villages.
The younger Mr. Ross is disarmingly honest about his own anger, an admission that serves, he writes, as an antidote to people's tendency "to turn the caregiving experience into some sort of Norman Rockwell depiction of the virtues of compassion".
Decency, here, is a circumspect sort of virtue.
So the question that Aristotle's concerned with, in the pages that we read, is a question of what that virtue looks like, and how that sort of virtue might be cultivated.
He is an exponent of what might be thought of as a Slow Foot movement, asserting that a sort of virtue is forged in the discipline of wearing exquisite, handmade shoes, even if they cramp the metatarsals.
The Prince is a sustained attempt to define, in the most realistic terms possible, the sort of virtue that a prince must possess if he wants to succeed in achieving his objectives.
