Sentence examples for virtuous rule from inspiring English sources

This emphasizes Xunzi's advocacy of virtuous rule and his opposition to superstition (an important corollary of his philosophy of nature).

He contrasts the ideal city, in which the wise rule, and two would-be aristocracies, the timocracy in which the militaristically "virtuous" rule and the oligarchy in which the rich rule.

Indeed, if we separate equity, which recommends judicial leniency as the means to a just squaring of accounts, from mercy, which exceeds justice, we see that the play frustrates the Duke's aspiration to virtuous rule by insisting that we must have, and also that we cannot have, both justice and mercy.

As the Confucian phrase goes: "Only the virtuous can rule all under Heaven". Mao's revolution, so it is believed, brought back harmony and virtue were there had been chaos and corruption.

The chancellor said a set of new rules for capitalism were embedded in the supposedly virtuous regulation of the German financial and economic system.

Accept that so long as a ruler is competent and virtuous he has a mandate from heaven to rule and therefore it goes against the highest order to overthrow a virtuous ruler.

The chapter does not dispute an assumption that is commonly held across Chinese philosophical schools that the sage-kings of ancient times were virtuous and ruled over a harmonious and prosperous society.

In Confucian terms, "only the virtuous are able to rule all under heaven".

As members of the governing elite, they also believed, at least in theory, that they had an obligation to remonstrate with the emperor when he failed in his duty to rule by virtuous example.

He shows no trace of the thought, common at the time and strongly held by Hutcheson, that a class of wise and virtuous people ought to rule over the common herd.

So how can businesses support this virtuous cycle of stronger rule of law, increased investment, and economic and social advancement?