Like the contemporary philosopher John McDowell, he thus suggests that the virtuous agent can properly see the point of virtue, and how virtue helps constitute happiness, only from a perspective within the actual practice of virtue.
Brightness is the obvious virtue, helping the resolution of light microscopy go even below 1 nm.
Following thinkers like Plato and Aristotle, who thought that our ethical task is to cultivate virtues that help us to live well, Kierkegaard argued that courage is the virtue that faces anxiety wisely.
In a day of Olympian dashes that took him from the Mormon Church to an emotional greeting of the American athletes to his role declaring the Olympic Games open, President Bush paid parallel tributes today to the heroes of Sept. 11 and to the Games, which he said would celebrate American virtues and help heal the nation's wounds.
They also possess virtues that help to ameliorate a problem of rapidly growing magnitude in the analysis of complex living systems: that the data produced by high-throughput methods ("gene chips") have very high error rates.
It may seem arrogant, but proclaiming your virtues can help wire your brain to believe that anything is possible.
Retrieving these values and virtues will help healthcare providers to find fresh perspectives and greater motivation, giving them a new perspective of professional and personal growth.
To my mind, that pervasive lightness is one of the novel's virtues and helps conceal some of its flaws.
He emphasized his first-time candidacy as a virtue to help tame a $3 billion budget deficit, and attract more jobs.
Ms. Andrieu, the cookbook author, said that despite Ms. Child's clichéd recipes, her style could be defined as a "combination of scientific and empirical virtues" that helped explain why Americans wrote better cookbooks than the French.
