Sentence examples for virtuous principle from inspiring English sources

But respect for the umpire is not just a virtuous principle in most walks of life.

Butler referred to the general principle of charity or "love of our neighbor as thyself" as a virtuous principle or as the reason guided endeavor to promote the happiness of proximate others to the same degree that one attempts to promote one's own good (although he also identified "love of neighbor" with the particular passion of compassion).

The reality is that the United Kingdom may not long survive unless virtuous principles are grasped and acted on by whatever government is elected as soon as the general election has taken place.

The movie conveys an earnest effort on the part of the producers, the screenwriters, and the director to reboot Tarzan on virtuous principles, but the results feel constrained to that virtue.

Butler suggested a thought experiment of a monarchy run on virtuous principles (Analogy III §20) and argued that it would tend to be happier and more powerful than other regimes if allowed to flourish, eventually becoming a universal monarchy.

Others suggest that Covey's work parallels the Hindu concept of dharma, that a virtuous, principle-centered life is its own reward.

So in 1659 when Milton is writing his final political treatise, he's compelled to alter his views once again, and he finds very little evidence of the rational, virtuous, ethical principles that he had been so confident about in Areopagitica, this idea that all human individuals possess the virtue and the reason and the spirit that he had previously attributed to them.

Traditional religious ethics examines texts and traditions and highlights principles and virtuous behaviors that can apply to particular issues.

By directing their young charges' education and inculcating in them the principles of virtuous hard work and abstemious living, Victoria's beloved Lehzen and Albert's Florschütz had a democratizing influence on the royal couple that would be hard to overestimate.

A notable feature of "Models and Standards," the Mohist text discussed in the preceding section, is that the candidate fa considered are not ethical principles, but virtuous agents, such as parents and teachers, whom we can take as role models.

But how long I stay virtuous depends on the Curzon principle.