The goddesses Fortune and Virtue argue about which of them has the greater influence over human affairs.
Think about which virtues are most important to you.
Visit different churches, temples, etc. Learn about which virtues each religions are based upon.
Second, it refers to Darwin's conception of moral virtue and moral progress, topics about which he, like many Victorians, thought a good deal.
And that's the thing about virtue, which I think society really hasn't caught on to.... Courage is not rushing off into battle having had a stiff drink and waving a sword around and yelling some great whoop!
The explanation may lie in a well-known passage in Plato's Apology (38a), where Socrates remarks that 'The greatest good for man is to hold discussions every day about virtue and about the other things about which you hear me conversing [dialegomenou, cognate with 'dialectic'] and examining myself and others.
Would we then revise our opinions about which traits count as intellectual virtues and which as vices?
Thus, James alluded to intentionality, the feature of some mental processes in virtue of which they are essentially about or directed toward an object.
Husserl's aim was to give an exact description of the phenomenon of intentionality, or the feature of conscious mental states by virtue of which they are always "about," or "directed toward," some object.
It's also questionable whether our grip upon the notion of the essence of a proposition is any firmer than our grasp of the notion of the generic reference of a judgement, or what a statement is about, or that in virtue of which it is true, or even the notion of truth-maker itself.
