Sentence examples for virtue since from inspiring English sources

Rawls's conception of justice as an individual virtue is a good example of a non-virtue-ethical account of a virtue, since, as we saw, it treats individual justice as a matter of accepting and complying with independently defended moral/political principles or rules.

She refers medieval philosophical writings by Maimonedes, who argued that anonymity of giving was the highest virtue, since gifts can challenge the dignity of receivers.

Given the improbable journey of "Civic Virtue" since it was begun by the sculptor Frederick MacMonnies in 1920, nothing can be ruled out.

They may even tacitly admit the new plans have some virtue since the Blast, now described as "popular" by the ECB rather than "mediocre", will be not so readily overshadowed by the new competition, despite all the marketing.

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.

Not only does that conclusion seem unmotivated by the phenomenon under discussion, it would also paradoxically convert ethnocentrism into a kind of virtue (since assimilating the views of one's culture would be a way of tapping into the moral truth), which is at odds with the generally pejorative understanding of the term.

Philip admits that strictly speaking cardinal virtues are not divine virtues since they have to do with what is for the sake of the end and not directly with the end itself (the end of course being God).

The girl's should be asking Jake a lot more questions about who HE is as a person and about his values and virtues since they are thinking about spending the rest of their lives with him.

Predictability has been the great German virtue since 1945.

Awareness cannot be classified as exclusively a moral or an intellectual virtue, either, since knowing is an inescapably practical and evaluative activity not to mention, an embodied practice.

Indeed, she believes that both sexes ought to aspire to virtue, which, since it involves understanding and acting on moral principles discernable by reason, is the same for both sexes.