Sentence examples for virtues based from inspiring English sources

When he left Hungary for Italy in the 1970s, making erotic films such as Private Vices and Public Virtues (based on the Mayerling story), it seemed he had little more of value to say, or no way of saying it without repeating himself or exaggerating his weaknesses.

Yet these virtues based on self-esteem must be tempered by a second group that includes generosity, compassion, fidelity, and friendship; otherwise traits like courage are "fit only to make a tyrant and public robber" (Hume, Treatise, 603).

For he suggests that someone with the natural virtues based on self-esteem will have the wider imaginative powers needed for correct deliberation from the standpoint of the judicious spectator.

In ethics, Rand held a vaguely Aristotelian theory of virtue based on a teleological conception of living organisms, including humans.

Graeme Virtue Based on British series Criminal Justice, starring John Turturro as a shambling but shrewd defence lawyer and co-written by Richard Price (Clockers, The Wire), this miniseries shows every sign of being a major return to form for HBO.

Moreover, Zagzebski argues, we can give a unified account of moral and intellectual virtue based on an Aristotelian model of the moral virtues.

In any case, the meta lesson from studies like this is that we should be careful about ascribing virtue based on personality styles.

The ones who didn't saw a crowd of "deplorables," to whom they were prepared to ascribe any number of vices and counter-virtues based on their faces, their clothes, their bodies, and their presence at a Trump rally.

These include capitalism's subordination of human welfare to the pursuit of profits; its transformation of greed from Christianity's Third Mortal Sin to the preeminent capitalist virtue (based on a selective reading of Adam Smith); and its rejection of the biblically-mandated responsibility to "love your neighbor as yourself," i.e., to care for society's poor and vulnerable.

This second group of virtues is based on broadly-based feelings of good will, affection, and concern for others.

We shall consider how to define the virtues, the relation between virtue and right action and action guidance, the relation between virtue and happiness and criticisms made of virtue theory based on contemporary psychology.