Sentence examples for virtue on from inspiring English sources

Jolley could never seem to come up with a clear, settled explanation, and since clarity is a philosophical virtue, on one level this obviously bothered him.

According to this view, the classical republicans held what would now be described as a perfectionist political philosophy that is, a political philosophy centered on the idea of promoting a specific conception of the good life as consisting in active citizenship and healthy civic virtue on the one hand, while combating any sort of corruption that would undermine these values on the other.

To trust in luck is to be courageous, and courage, the one essential virtue, on which all others depend, is also the one ambiguous virtue, since it is morally neutral: jerks have it as often as gentlemen.

The self-righteous tone of advertising one's virtue on a bumper sticker while imposing it on others raised my loner hackles.

There, at the top of the charts for general domestic mutual funds published in Sunday Business last week, was a fund that wears its virtue on its sleeve: the Virtus Small-Cap Sustainable Growth fund.

In the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant divides moral philosophy into two domains, that of justice or law on the one hand (the Doctrine of Right), and that of ethics or virtue on the other (the Doctrine of Virtue).

The emphasis on private virtues, on community loyalties, on apologetic decency is already receding.

But despite their opposing promoters' slights, each has its virtues on paper.

AND now, class, let us pause to name the virtues on which this country was built by our pioneering forebears.

Eulogy virtues, on the other hand, are the aspects of character that others praise when a person isn't around to hear it: humility, kindness, bravery.

You can now read all about soy's virtues on Silk cartons.