As depicted by Plato, the search for such definitions led invariably to a concern with knowledge of how best to live, as not only one of the conventional virtues (in the form of wisdom) but also as underpinning, even constituting, them all.
Thus a particular human being is able to learn, say, in virtue of the form which is its rational soul.
In fact, in both cases, the subject term and the predicate term refer to the same reality in virtue of the form connoted by the predicate term itself.
On Kant's conception of virtue, virtue is the form in which a being with a non-holy will expresses her supreme commitment to morality.
Kant calls phenomenal virtue, virtue's "empirical character," the form in which true virtue appears to us (Rel 6 47 48).
In the States, radio has long been regarded as a crippled form of TV, but Milligan brilliantly exploited every virtue of the form.
As C. S. Lewis said, courage is not just one virtue but "the form of every virtue at the testing point".
The most compelling testament to the virtues of simplicity comes in the form of a counterexample: the much-heralded return of Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra, the standard-bearers for nineteen-seventies symphonic rock.
Moreover, both virtue in the soul and contemplating the forms are parts of happiness for the philosopher (517c-d; 580b-c).
Perhaps, the older population has intuitively understood some of the paradoxical virtues and power of technology in the form of a telemedicine encounter, namely, that the essence of care is the basic connectivity with another human being, the telling of one's narrative of what is ailing them, and the trust that the person across from them (on the monitor) is listening and observing carefully.
