Sentence examples for to human virtue from inspiring English sources
To underscore the bonobo's status as a signpost species — a guide to human virtue, or at least modern dating — it is said to walk upright.
As Coyne points out, "Templeton funds many other scientists who study Big Questions … These include studies of cosmology, human altruism, spiritual healing, and the contribution of faith to human virtue". So who are these scientists benefiting from Templeton's largesse?
But these arguments do not seem to tug on the heart strings of policymakers or appeal to the human virtue to do what is right for others, for our future generations, and even for ourselves.
In this way, even those who reject the ambitious positive project of trying to perfect human virtue seem at least committed to the negative project of aiming to minimize the influence of biasing factors on our moral psychology.
Wilson is cautious here, but some "evolutionary ethicists" don't hesitate to claim that all we need in order to understand human virtue is the right explanation — whatever it may be — of how altruistic behavior evolved.
Palmieri's philosophical poem, La città di vita ("The City of Life"), developed the idea that the world was divinely ordained to test human virtue in action.
You remember how we felt when the serenity of a bright September morning was destroyed by a savage atrocity so hostile to all human virtue we could scarcely imagine any human being capable of it.
At every opportunity, people rush to attribute "human" virtues to this extinct human-like species.
Without a certain deference to the beyond, human virtue would almost always degenerate into self-serving and short-sighted opportunism, would fall prey to vanity and egoistic isolation, to nothingness.
Thus to develop such a capacity is to develop a distinctively human virtue, something which is a constituent of human well-being.
He is far from the first writer to identify the pursuit of human virtue as prime satirical fodder, but he's probably the first to do so by working within the system.
