In classical and Christian thought, pleasure was seen as, at best, a distraction from the worthwhile pursuit of virtue.
And mainstream news outlets, which Mr. Siegel is otherwise delighted to assail (his love-hate relationship with The New York Times is particularly intense), suddenly look worthwhile to him by virtue of their real, earned authority.
There are some landlords, however, who see dorm-style apartments as a worthwhile business venture with real virtues for certain tenants.
The second day of the first Test here in Durban yesterday was full of resolve, determination and great competence, virtues that make it worthwhile.
Nabokov wrote of the game: "Chess problems demand from the composer the same virtues that characterise all worthwhile art: originality, invention, conciseness, harmony, complexity and splendid insincerity".
Confucianism is a perfectionist virtue ethic if such an ethic is distinguished by its central focus on three subjects: character traits identified as the virtues; the good and worthwhile life; and particularist modes of ethical reasoning.
From Trevor Paglen to Joan Jonas to Thomas Hirschhorn, the dozen artists discuss not only the compelling virtues that make creation worthwhile, but the ins-and-outs of producing their own aesthetic universes too.
For surely we cannot expect Aristotle to show what it is about the traditional virtues that makes them so worthwhile until he has fully discussed the nature of those virtues.
This idea is closely linked to the view that trustworthiness is a virtue, which makes it intrinsically worthwhile (see The Nature of Trust and Trustworthiness).
Aristotelians emphasise virtues and intrinsic values that make for worthwhile lives.Mr Sandel then suggests objections and counter-objections to each of those learned answers.
Parents who do so, he rued, "think it worthwhile to hazard [their] son's innocence and virtue for a little Greek and Latin".
