Sentence examples for teach virtue from inspiring English sources

Shakespeare's contemporary Sir Philip Sidney argued, in contrast, that no writing is better than the works that both teach virtue and move us with the desire to be taught.

His rich account in TMS of the way that spectators around us subtly and unconsciously shape us morally enables him to hold that governments need not teach virtue.

The Protagoras treats its eponymous sophist with some respect, but the two Hippias dialogues (major and minor) poke fun at their namesake, and the Euthydemus shows its sophists as puzzle-makers who cannot make good their claim to teach virtue.

A substantial framing dialogue between Socrates and Crito surrounds and intrudes upon a reported discussion involving Socrates and two brothers, Euthydemus and Dionysodorus, traveling teachers who have much in common with the sophists, and who claim to teach virtue, rather than the forensic rhetoric expected of such experts (274d).

He is a co-recipient of a NSF grant to study and teach wildlife research ethics, and a recipient of a NEH grant to study and teach virtue ethics and Confucian philosophy.

Two centuries later the Grimms' stories teach virtues we still strive for: bravery, resourcefulness, loyalty, kindness, gratitude.

And parents value them because they teach virtues like teamwork and persistence, and keep children out of trouble and away from less enriching pastimes.

Take away karma, rebirth, nirvana, deities, oracles, reincarnated lamas and the like for Buddhism, however, and you still have a set of beliefs and practices to cultivate detachment from the impermanent material world and teach virtues such as compassion and mindfulness.

Socrates challenges the brothers to show that, in addition to teaching virtue, they can convince a pupil that he should learn virtue from them.

However, Swift does not believe that experience alone could make one capable of understanding virtue or being capable of teaching virtue.

David Brooks, in his column about Tom Wolfe's new novel, "I Am Charlotte Simmons" ("'Moral Suicide,' à la Wolfe," Nov. 16), suggests that our universities are not teaching virtues like courage.