Sentence examples for virtue in general from inspiring English sources

Thomas says that both natural law and positive law prescribe acts of virtue in general but they do not prescribe every specific virtuous act (except for those that promote the social good of justice and peace).

He organizes his material by first studying ethical virtue in general, then moving to a discussion of particular ethical virtues (temperance, courage, and so on), and finally completing his survey by considering the intellectual virtues (practical wisdom, theoretical wisdom, etc).

We are left with two views to ascribe to Speusippus (and to Xenocrates): that wisdom, or virtue in general, is sufficient for happiness, and that there are non-moral goods the lack of which conduces to unhappiness.

Furthermore, different cultural viewpoint on pain perception and sick leave could be another reason for the low proportion of disability in our study population, given the fact that Korea is one of the Asian countries where many people still believe that patience is a virtue in general [24,25].

Orgel suggests that he is sceptical of female virtue in general, citing his ambiguous remark about his wife's fidelity.

Suppose we think of virtues in general as excellences of character.

While this view of the will is modified by such disciples of Aquinas as Giles of Rome, perhaps under the impetus of the Condemnations of 1277, Aquinas's linking of conscience with prudence and the virtues in general through his concern with weakness of will is innovative and undoubtedly connected with his interest in the Nicomachean Ethics.

This is why so much of Aristotle's ethical writing is given over to an investigation of virtue, both in general and in particular, and extending to both practical and theoretical forms.

To honor one's soul, he tells them, is to follow virtue and, in general, good things, rather than to allow it to satisfy any desires and to enjoy any pleasures it might want; and, at the end of the discussion, this ability of the soul to follow the good is identified as that which explains why the soul is to be so highly honored.

With the passing of time a candidate's foibles and weaknesses faded from common memory, leaving only their towering heroic virtue in the general mind.

During this time differentiation between samples take place by virtue of their (in general) different responses to the interventions administered in the trial.