Sentence examples for spirited attitudes from inspiring English sources
So the intemperate person has appetitive or spirited attitudes in competition with the rational attitudes, appetitive or spirited attitudes other than those the rational attitudes deem to be good.
Note that Socrates has the young guardians not only responding to good things as honorable (with spirited attitudes), but also becoming fine and good.
If 'good' is the organizing predicate for rational attitudes, 'honorable' or 'fine' (Greek kalon) is the organizing predicate for spirited attitudes.
Insofar as Glaucon shows sympathy for spirited attitudes (372d with the discussion in section 4.1 below, and cf. 548d), his attachment to these attitudes could survive the realization that they are far from perfectly satisfiable.
A person is courageous just in case her spirited attitudes do not change in the face of pains and pleasures but stay in agreement with what is rationally recognized as fearsome and not (442bc).
The list is not exhaustive (544cd, cf. 445c), but it captures the four imperfect kinds of pure psychological constitutions: pure rule by spirited attitudes, pure rule by necessary appetitive attitudes, pure rule by unnecessary but regulable appetitive attitudes, and pure rule by lawless appetitive attitudes.
Mr. Kweller, now 20, showed his trademark ebullience, winning the crowd with spirited attitude and songs that still betrayed his youth.
Mr Bergsten compliments the United States for its perspicacity in forging PTAs that can be opened wider in due course emphasising America's leadership, to be contrasted with the less public-spirited attitudes of the "inward-looking" EU.
By the time we rejoin Blanche she is drinking heavily and entertaining a succession of lovers who manipulate her, invert her and, in a parody of her earlier free-spirited attitudes, lasciviously split her legs.
Take officialdom's mean-spirited attitude to community care of the elderly.
My mum has just died and I am upset by the mean-spirited attitude of Axa Sun Life insurance.
