Their virtue is in allowing individuals to retain control over the distribution of their money.
Actually, their virtue is that they fit neatly between the two: a "Matlock" episode or a Nero Wolfe mystery can be enjoyed more passively than a crossword puzzle (a puzzle, no matter how easy, requires a pencil and full participation), but it soaks up more time and attention than a cigarette.
Each year, in a sacred rite, statues of the goddess Durga, made from dirt gathered from prostitutes' thresholds, where men are thought to have cast off their virtue, are taken in procession to the Ganges where worshipers look on as they dissolve in the muddy water.
Conversely, it makes clear that those born to high standing who do not cultivate their virtue are not worthy of being deemed a prince.
The philosophical foundation for the claim that the temperature of women's bodies is a sign of their virtue is an interpretation of Aristotle's natural philosophy.
Similarly, Brink (1999, p. 272) distinguishes between the object and the manner of love, arguing in response to Vlastos that particular people are the objects of our love, and "priz[ing] and promot[ing] their virtue" is, at least in some cases, the manner in which we love them.
If not, how can we know whether these particular humans are indeed more virtuous, and that their virtue is indeed genetic?
Their virtues are acknowledged a bit stiffly.
The public was not demanding those reforms: Their virtues were their own reward.
"Those episodes of Bake Off or The X Factor, and their virtues are manifest, will never be watched again.
