Certainly, after a century of blown bubbles and gum stuck to the bottoms of desks, it must be difficult for them to begin to see chewing gum as a virtue instead of a vice.
Complexity -- the grand vocabulary, the page-long paragraph, the jointed sentence -- has come to be valued as an outright virtue instead of a choice that is often not a good one.
He also used it as a means to criticize himself for failing to obtain high office, but coming to the conclusion that the true gentleman displays virtue instead of greed for power.
In this way sonam (luck) can be understood as an experiential indicator of moral virtue, instead of a rather crass system of rewards and punishments for good and bad behaviour (Keown 1992).
Far better, on balance, to celebrate the virtues instead.
She recommended Aristotle's concept of virtue instead.
In the late 18th century David and other neoclassicists rejected the sensuality and fun of rococo art and created austere images of political virtue instead.
Numerous defenders of virtue ethics have denied that behavioral consistency is necessary for virtue, instead emphasizing virtue's characteristic rational tendencies, particularly as manifested in practical deliberation (Kametekar 2004; Annas forthcoming; cf. Swanton 2003: 30 1).
Since each physician might understand each virtue differently, specific situation in which each virtue is implied is presented instead of each particular virtue.
