Sentence examples for will virtue from inspiring English sources

JAY S. MARKOWITZ Pacific Palisades, Calif., Sept. 26, 2012 To the Editor: When the elite students who are learning the culture of cheating at Stuyvesant High School become scientists, Wall Street wizards, leaders of industry and politicians, will virtue and honesty blossom?

Generosity incorporates both the perfection of the intellect (wisdom) and the perfection of the will (virtue).

However inelegant some of Lipsius's "adaptations" might seem, they belonged to the carefully considered program of a humanist who, by promoting free will, virtue and social commitment, based on a synthesis of Christian and Stoic ethics, wanted to achieve an acceptable, unifying and practicable Christian humanitas.

On top of this hierarchical arrangement of "created beings" we find the almighty Biblical God, who, according to Llull, had the following positive attributes: "goodness, greatness, power, eternity, wisdom, will, virtue, truth, and glory" [ 9].

"If you remove free will from virtue, you destroy its essence".

Not all relationships within the British Isles would be configured at Westminster, although England will, by virtue of its size, be a valued partner.

It is, however, an illusion to hope that the superpower will see virtue in maintaining institutions and alliances whose overall effect is to prevent it from pursuing its own vital interests.

They're calling it "A Day of Education in Defense of Public Education," and participants will make virtue out of necessity, venting on one of four furlough days mandated for the rest of the school year.

"Sex posited as prior to construction will, by virtue of being posited, become the effect of that very positing" (1993, 5).

Scudéry also began her philosophical initiation with the reading of Montaigne, who would influence her later sympathy with skepticism, and Plutarch (in the French translation by Jacques Amyot), who introduced her to the Stoic philosophy of reason, will, and virtue.

At this stage of the disease process physical exercise will, by virtue of the generation of large amounts of ADP in muscle tissue, protect against lipotoxicity and the development of insulin resistance.