Sentence examples for virtuous quality from inspiring English sources

So when one says that "such a man did well and worthily, his conduct is highly approvable" (EAP 5.7, 673), one predicates of this man's action a virtuous quality.

The Argument from Uncodifiability is that explaining a virtuous person's action in terms of a desire for doing N things, where N is a natural property of actions, combined with the belief that something is N falsely presumes that there is some finite and codifiable natural kind N corresponding to every virtuous quality in actions.

The motive of acting virtuously cannot be the standard or basic motive to virtuous action, since, according to Hume, what makes an act virtuous is its expression of a virtuous motive, which in turn reflects a virtuous quality of character (T 477).

Do you consider greed to be a virtuous quality?

For men in the restaurant industry, it's a virtuous quality to be edgy and unapproachable.

("Forever" can easily become a trap into passivity; anything can become the ego's next identity, even the seemingly virtuous quality of "being present in the interim time").

In response, Coriolanus is too confident in his own virtuous qualities to concern himself with answering the people's charges.

"A leader doesn't have to possess all the virtuous qualities I've mentioned, but it's absolutely imperative that he seems to possess them".

Remember this, even if you don't get the book: "A leader doesn't have to possess all the virtuous qualities I've mentioned, but it's absolutely imperative that he seem to possess them".

Aristotle defends the idea that happiness consists in being a virtuous person over a complete life, and, in turn, the idea that being a virtuous person requires not only that one have virtuous qualities and dispositions, but also that one act on them.

It's also healthy enough, while still offering plenty of the less virtuous qualities that one is likely be looking for, when one is looking for fast food.