Thanks to Organization Celebrities such as Fey and Schumer, fame has become a newly virtuous pursuit.
"Average investors without insider connections were left with huge losses," we are told, in a way that makes it sound like insider trading is some sort of virtuous pursuit.
Man as the humanoid survivalist creature sadly gets in the way far too often and supplants those mandates with competitive brokerage in the form of income and power requisites that result in destructive vetting, leaving the virtuous, organic pursuit of legacy via one's deeds and works in the dust as agendas are chased at cost to self and others - and the recording of our of own history.
In short, German leaders have practiced stakeholder capitalism and followed the century-old wisdom of Henry Ford, while American business and political leaders have dismantled the dynamics of the "virtuous circle" in pursuit of downsizing, offshoring and short-term profit and big dividends for their investors.
We cannot expect high civility from our national leaders or our own public discourse until we return to the high pursuit of virtuous leading and living.
The pursuit of the good life is considered to be the pursuit of a virtuous life.
The now ex-champion, I have always contended, has the frame of a light-heavyweight, on which — by exercise, a virtuous life, and an intensive pursuit of sleep — he has packed another dozen pounds or so of muscle.
In addition to developing clear guidance of how to gain redemption in the afterlife, religious law (sharî'a) also aims at creating an environment that allows each individual wellbeing and the pursuit of a virtuous and pious lifestyle.
Recent articles have suggested that the use of cognitive enhancement as a facilitator, in adjunction with moral and epistemic virtues, may make the pursuit of a virtuous life, with morally responsible judgements, more achievable [ 31].
This analysis is particularly important in the context of this article, as doctors, perhaps more so than other people, are ultimately reliant on the pursuit of a virtuous life.
The Greeks believed that human beings innately desired knowledge and that the pursuit of knowledge was virtuous in itself.
