Sentence examples for stable virtues from inspiring English sources

The strongest challenge that Legalism raises to virtue ethics is not that stable virtues are impossible to achieve, but that they are not realistic possibilities for most persons, and that therefore lofty virtue ideals cannot provide the basis for a large-scale social ethic.

Yet, as Helen Braithwaite writes in her study of Johnson, his "enlightened pluralistic approach was also seen by its opponents as inherently permissive, opening the door to all forms of unhealthy questioning and scepticism, and at odds with the stable virtues of established religion and authority".

Phases are stable by virtue of minimization of free energy, and the conditions for various equilibrium phases to exist, and to coexist with each other, are described by phase diagrams.

Similarly, doing the right thing from a fixed and stable character which virtue ethics considers a condition of the good is not beyond the reach of existential evaluation: such character may simply be a product of my tendency to "do what one does," including feeling "the right way" about things and betaking myself in appropriate ways as one is expected to do.

At the same time, for all the fiddling about with the cash flow, the returns and impulse buys, Spurs have become richer and more stable simply by virtue of being a Premier League team at the right time in the right city, with a new ground in the offing and the club's value steadily creeping up.

Meanwhile, a new biography by the British Conservative M.P. Jesse Norman, "Edmund Burke: The First Conservative Basicic), emphasizes a Burke who believed in stable communities, "civic virtue," and free markets as the foundation of free nations — Burke as a mildly anti-Thatcherian figure for this new Conservative age.

He believes that Terra can take a slice of the payments behind the partner businesses — he's targeting payment GMV in the region of "tens, if not hundreds, of millions of U.S. dollars" before the end of 2019 — and in doing so set itself up for becoming a stable token by virtue of usage.

Second, they appear to hold something like a conception of virtues as stable character traits that are resistant to undue situational influences.

In another 2013 interview, Scalia stated that "In order for capitalism to work, in order for it to produce a good and stable society, traditional Christian virtues are essential".

Since the emergence of cluster kinds is not entirely random and a causal-historical account can be provided in virtue of stable homeostatic mechanisms, cluster kinds are sufficiently robust to support induction (criterion 2) and perhaps even laws of nature in some cases (criterion 3).

To investigate the ramifications of SPL upregulation on irradiated cells, HEK293T cells exhibiting constitutively high SPL activity by virtue of stable overexpression of human SPL (SPLhi cells) and HEK293T vector control cells containing low endogenous SPL levels were irradiated, and apoptosis was evaluated.