Sentence examples for terms of virtue from inspiring English sources

Returns will beat the market in terms of virtue only, though investors may lay claim to a part in the salvation of the planet.

This is one reason to frame the view broadly, in terms of virtue, rather than morality.

In a sense, this is a venerable thesis in some ancient, specifically Platonic philosophy which envisaged the goal and method of philosophy in terms of virtue and the good.

So she thinks the truth is some form of compromise between the want story and the health story (Thomson 2001, 55 56).[27] Moral goodness is explained in terms of virtue and vice concepts.

There are contemporary attempts to analyze supererogation in terms of virtue (Kawal 2009), but they seem to fall into circularity: if the supererogatory is defined as what the (idealized) perfectly virtuous person would judge to be so, we still have to decide, independently of a theory of supererogation, who this ideal moral agent is.

Nathan says he sees bios "written by white people" that refer to "sexual racism...both in terms of exclusionary language and in terms of virtue signaling".

The findings suggested that the Gospel parable about a rebellious son, welcoming father and vexed older brother "should not be read in terms of virtues like mercy, forgiveness and humility".

Reflecting the difficulty of generating specific rules to protect love, many such views have understood the ethical content of marriage in terms of virtues (Steinbock 1991, Scruton 1986, Chapter 11, 356 361).

Linked with these meta-ethical controversies is the dilemma of understanding the ethical life either as the "ancients" do, in terms of virtues and vices of character, or as the "moderns" do, primarily in terms of principles of duty or natural law.

A virtue epistemologist would reverse the order of analysis, defining justified belief as one that manifests intellectual virtue, and evidence in terms of intellectual virtue.

She frames her work in terms of a virtue epistemology of a responsibilist form, and posits an epistemic virtue of testimonial justice.