In Virtues of the Mind, Linda Zagzebski (1996, 114) gives a very comprehensive list of intellectual virtues, adding such items as intellectual humility, perseverance, adaptability and communicativeness.
Classical republicans admire free schools because their creation requires the virtues of independence of mind and a sense of civic obligation.
How is it that the state can promote the civic virtue or "strength of mind" [fortitudo] on which peace depends (5/2, 5/3)?
The Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza writes, "Peace is not the absence of war; it is a virtue, a state of mind, a disposition for benevolence, confidence, justice".
Greatness is not a goal you achieve or a skill you have, but rather greatness is a virtue, a state of mind, or a habit you develop.
"Discovering the Virtues of a Wandering Mind," (Findings, June 29) describes the creative activities that occur during daydreaming.
JOHN DRYDEN, a 17th-century English poet, wrote that repentance was the virtue of weak minds and the want of power to sin.
Virtue is a perfection of mind.
It is a word that implies not only strength, as one might expect, but also gentleness, as one might not, and along with gentleness the virtues of learnedness, including flexibility of mind and the capacity to experience deep emotion, both in life and in art.
Reading a few chapters of "The Phantom Tollbooth" (which, among other lessons, extols the virtues of keeping an open mind) might have helped lift the boy's spirits, as he's clearly in the Doldrums.
