Last Thursday, Senator Joseph Lieberman, a Democrat from Connecticut, and William Bennett, the Republicans' shadow Secretary of Virtue, held a press conference to denounce the "lurid" daytime talk shows, to expound on their dangers, and to deplore their effects on children.
It seemed to him that for all the talk of family and faith and neighborliness the heartland virtues held up in rebuke of competitive, materialistic Gomorrahs like San Francisco there was something not quite wholesome in this placidity, something lazy and sensual.
In short, Mr. Gergen said that he thought he already saw an effort to begin defining Mr. Kerry as a Northeastern liberal, and that Mr. Brady in turn represented "manly" virtues held in esteem at the White House.
It seemed to him that for all the talk of family and faith and neighborliness — the heartland virtues held up in rebuke of competitive, materialistic Gomorrahs like San Francisco — there was something not quite wholesome in this placidity, something lazy and sensual.
A direct consequentialist about virtues holds that the moral qualities of a character trait (such as whether or not it is a moral virtue) depend on the consequences of that trait (Driver 2001a, Hurka 2001, Jamieson 2005, Bradley 2005).
Correspondingly, on the left-hand side of the tree we find the seven cardinal virtues, held securely in the ground by many more roots, including kindness, magnanimity and wisdom.
As a fan of democracy, Klug will surely appreciate that people are representative not by virtue of holding a PhD.
Instead, it must come from donors, who should be made to see the virtue of holding their alma maters, their children and themselves to higher academic and moral standards.
An Earthquakes win by any score over Heredia will leave all three teams level on 6 points in the group, and the Quakes will advance to next spring's knockout by virtue of holding the goal-differential tiebreaker.
In American politics, incumbents generally have an unfair popularity advantage, by virtue of holding power and the soapbox that comes with it.
