Sentence examples for virtue making from inspiring English sources
"Please tell me - I have longed to find out!" Needless to say, Socrates swiftly and comprehensively demolished Meno's efforts to define virtue, making him exclaim at last, "I'm thoroughly confused; I don't know what to think!" To which Socrates replied, "Now that you know you're confused, we can begin to progress towards understanding".
The pope recognized Baker's "heroic virtue," making him eligible for beatification.
In truth, the presence of such unimpeachable virtue makes me feel like breaking bottles.
Along with bravery and perseverance, Mr. Nachtwey's pictorial virtue makes him a model war photographer.
The solidarity and collective virtue make you want to burst with pride.
His pose of open-mindedness and ostentatiously asserted country virtue made him, in his way, as unassailable as George Washington.
Mr. Perahia's virtue makes me a little uncomfortable, but what am I to do? Ask him to play less well?
Nevertheless, he believes that Christian virtue makes for better government.
Aristotle replies: "Virtue makes the goal right, practical wisdom the things leading to it" (1144a7 8).
In Book One, he argued that justice, as a virtue, makes the soul perform its function well and that a person who lives well is "blessed and happy" (352d-354a, quoting 354a1).
What he must have in mind, when he says that virtue makes the goal right, is that deliberation typically proceeds from a goal that is far more specific than the goal of attaining happiness by acting virtuously.
