Sentence examples for virtues based on 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.

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.

See Little (1997) more generally, for an extensive and detailed examination of arguments against virtue theory based on appeal to considerations in the philosophy of mind.

Using Aristotle's classifications of friends, I will attest that many of my Facebook "friends" were friendships of utility or pleasure at one time, but perhaps social media can assist in allowing those friendships to develop into ones based on virtue and character, which Aristotle insists takes time and trust and love and mutual sharing.

The arts and virtues are both based on engravings derived from paintings by the Flemish artist Marten de Vos.