Sentence examples for that virtues from inspiring English sources
It's the bedrock American dream that virtues like hard work and playing by the rules are rewarded with prosperity.
Further, she insisted that virtues like courage, wisdom and temperance are indispensable to human life and the foundation stones of morality.
As explained in Section 2.1 above, several of Plato's dialogues criticize the view that virtues are merely tendencies to act in particular ways.
The idea that seemingly predictive and explanatory concepts might also have a normative component is not entirely original with Knobe; Bernard Williams pointed out that virtues and vices have such a dual nature (1985, 129).
In an inversion of the MacIntyrean position, Stout contends that it is at least in part because liberal democracies do not espouse some overarching, thick conception of the good that virtues such as civility and respect are especially called for.
This might seem to tie into the intuitively attractive idea that virtues are excellences of character that promote human flourishing, while vices are traits that inhibit our flourishing (Foot 2001; Thompson 1995, 2008).
But I am saying that virtue involves trying.
It's all about virtue and vice, with just the assumption that virtue will be rewarded.
Antisthenes believed that happiness was dependent on moral virtue and that virtue could be instilled through teaching.
Among the scouts here belonging to Troop 2, that virtue is being sorely tested.
The housing market has required that virtue in saintly proportions over much of the last two years.
