Big ideals - honour, justice, liberty, virtue, duty - were high on Robespierre's personal and political agenda from early adulthood.
In the first chapter of the Shanhaijing (3rd century bce 1st century ce; "The Classic of Mountains and Rivers"), the fenghuang appears to be a symbol of Confucian values, wearing the characters meaning virtue, duty, ritual, compassion, and trust on various parts of its body.
Implicit in these standards are honesty, integrity, virtue, duty, compassion, and honor.
The military virtues -- duty, honor and courage -- differ from the peacetime campus virtues -- tolerance, inquisitiveness, compassion.
He was an authoritative yet emollient public speaker, who commended the community virtues of duty, service and self-respect.
They also studied "the butler code of ethics," which, much like the chivalric code, is characterized by virtues like "duty" and "discretion".
If the virtues of duty and service Douthat cites seemed a bit corny or cobwebbed, it's because it's difficult to fathom that anyone seeking power in America believes in them anymore.
Hu also introduced a list of 16 do's and don'ts, the so-called "Eight Honors and Eight Shames," which included stressing the values of nationalism and the Confucian virtues of duty, hard work and plain living.
It's really important, but not out of virtue or duty: I just think it is so interesting.
Culturally, rights were precipitated by what Alasdair MacIntyre has called a "moral catastrophe": the destruction of pre-modern communities of virtue and duty.
