Sentence examples for virtue entails from inspiring English sources

The consensus ends, however, on the question of what virtue entails.

He initially maintains that virtue entails happiness, and hence there is no need of an Afterlife since a virtuous person remains in the same condition whether dead or alive.

Indebted to Descartes' theory of the passions this argues that knowledge of virtue is attainable by reason, and the pursuit of virtue entails the control of the passions by the soul.

In taking the question "What sort of person ought I to be?" as fundamental, virtue ethics entails a richer moral psychology than its rivals.

Put differently, Butler assumes that his argument that virtue is natural entails an argument for the supremacy of conscience.

Even the Stoics, who notoriously regard all but a virtuous inner state as at best indifferent, would still assign happiness a kind of importance: at the very least, to be unhappy would be unvirtuous; and virtue itself arguably entails a kind of happiness, namely a pleasant state of tranquility.

For example, Williamson points out that philosophical views which entail that there are no mountains are often thought, in virtue of such entailments, to be highly counterintuitive.

The absolute absence of anger and of politics from their response the wife's fear, the husband's desire to get the door fixed in order not to attract copycats is exemplary of the bland goodness and almost unearthly decency of this model couple, who seem like living counter-arguments to Rousseau's notion that artistic culture doesn't entail moral virtue.

By this definition, being rational means valuing reason in thought, word, and deed, and realizing reason in one's life means being rational: the virtue and the value entail each other.

The Laine-Dankworth collaboration, by virtue of the compromises it entails, might be described as the musical embodiment of a long and successful marriage.

Indeed, if one assumes that knowledge entails justification, being a virtue reliabilist about the former seems to lead naturally to virtue reliabilism about the latter.