And this situation, albeit tragic and unfortunate, has the virtue of not involving clear moral wrongdoing.
By an unfortunate irony, the abiding virtues of the secondhand slow down the sales of the new: why buy an M8 when you can buy an M3 for a quarter of the price and wind up with comparable results?
The CDC's researchers hope to make a virtue of this unfortunate fact, and assess the vaccine's efficacy by comparing infection rates in groups vaccinated at different times.Which approach will work best remains to be seen.
This sort of confusion is depressingly commonplace, perhaps in virtue of an unfortunate tendency for philosophers to use terms like 'neutral'objectiveive', and 'relative' without always being completely explicit about what those terms are supposed to mean.
A financial visionary whose empire also includes health care, disaster relief and renewable energy, Mr. Yunus pops up frequently to extol the virtues of the unfortunate and their inalienable right to credit, usually in hoary, if heartfelt, aphorisms.
And it would be unfortunate if this upsurge of civic virtue resulted in only a tiny reduction in some people's property taxes, an outcome that thwarts the noble motives of those volunteers: to promote civic betterment by reallocating limited resources.
Alas, my adventures in Korean food have not yet convinced me of the virtues of kimchi – which is unfortunate because it is supposed to be a hot food trend in 2011 (you knew it had to happen eventually).
Traits like intellectual courage and carefulness are virtues even if we are unfortunate enough to be the victims of a Cartesian deceiver, and traits like laziness and carelessness are vices even if, contrary to appearances, they turn out to be reliable.
(The sole unfortunate consequence of this has been that it is now necessary to distinguish "virtue ethics" (the third approach) from "virtue theory", a term which is reserved for an account of virtue within one of the other approaches).
"To a certain puritanical frame of mind that views toil as a virtue in and of itself," he writes, "this may seem unfortunate," but leisure is one of civilization's great achievements: "George Jetson, after all, only worked nine hours a week.
