Rightly or wrongly, the serious critics – in the form of the New York Post reviewer, played by Christian McKay – are shown as paragons of virtue, refusing to go along with the charade, and gloweringly denouncing her lack of talent.
What he demanded of himself was strenuous: It is these things that cause me concern: failure to cultivate virtue, failure to go deeply into what I have learned, inability to move up to what I have heard to be right, and inability to reform myself when I have defects.
(7 3) It is these things that cause me concern: failure to cultivate virtue, failure to go deeply into what I have learned, inability to move up to what I have heard to be right, and inability to reform myself when I have defects.
Describing the continent as "falling short" of perfect virtue appears to go against the intuition that there is something particularly admirable about people who manage to act well when it is especially hard for them to do so, but the plausibility of this depends on exactly what "makes it hard" (Foot 1978, 11 14).
When she wasn't accusing Mr. Pellicano of being a wiretapping genius, Ms. Virtue made time to go after two of the other defendants in the case--former Sgt. Arneson and telephone repair expert, Ray Turner.
The virtue of fiction is to go beyond the events.
With rival candidates like Tim Pawlenty demanding continued support for the Defence of Marriage Act, does anyone really expect Huntsman – proud father of seven, who extols the virtues of "traditional" marriage – to go out on a limb for gay people?
Director Cameron Duddy, who helmed the "Uptown Funk" video, plops in a catchy vibe that gets down with the scatological while extolling the virtues of being able to go wherever without embarrassing stink.
So, I guess if he wanted to see "Tarita Virtue:EXPOSED", he'd have to go on her website--just like everyone else.
The philosophical underpinning for this argument is given in the second half of Book Four where Godwin examines the character of truth and its relationship to virtue and goes on to discuss arguments relating to freedom of the will, the doctrine of philosophical necessity, and the character of moral motivation.
