Virtue refers to having good moral qualities and behaving in a way that is seen as right or admirable. It involves possessing positive traits such as honesty, compassion, and fairness.
Virtue guides individuals to make ethical choices and lead a good life.
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It is, in other words, the birth of new men and the new beginning, the action they are capable of by
virtue of being born.
Insurance products people can enroll in
by virtue of working for an employer, being a member of a union or part of an organization.
Later, I came to see that a healthy society needs communities of
virtue in order to sustain a vital culture of freedom.
That is, pastors and churches leaders raise up these «sins»
as virtues to be acquired.
He argues for the replacement of the welfare state with «politics based
on virtue».
It's a very difficult task to write an essay
with virtue which does not have any flaw.
I recently realized how uncommon it is to talk
about virtues in education and work settings.
It's a pitch which attempts to
make virtue out of a necessity.
For him and others in this tradition, it was the
civic virtue of citizens that secured the common good.
Though that's her idea of how to spend her campus time, she has the
great virtue of not trying to push it on him.
He said migrants are driven by the very
Christian virtue of hope, to find a better life, and said receiving countries should share in that hope by welcoming them and integrating them.
As show breeders, we tend to select for
other virtues; short backs, good legs, pretty heads, ear and tail sets, etc..
In other words, he's got a talent for getting attention in the very small pond of Canadian publishing, mostly by
virtue signaling.
But if those rights become contingent on poor people's having the same
moral virtues as the «respectable» middle class, then departures from these traits provide a way of avoiding responsibility.
A stronger and more positive perspective for thinking about civic obligation can be found in
virtue ethics.
Most Japanese singles still hold very high
virtues when it comes to sex and relationships.
Experiment with single
virtues at first, increasing them as their vocabulary develops.
They represent the finest of
human virtues, the ones needed to be preserved for all humanity.
They worked tirelessly to instill accuracy as the
highest virtue in all of us young editors.
It is the essence of general civil religion that it is religion in general, If we ask
what virtue and corruption meant to the founding fathers the answer is clear.
Through such an apprenticeship we seek to acquire the intelligence and
virtues necessary to become skilled practitioners.
Character strengths and
virtues so much more meaningful than work skills and resumes.
We're stuck with
virtue because we'll always have to be good to reliably feel good.
And to me it is clear that we must now say that freedom has no meaning
without virtue, nor rights without duties.
Just as it is not possible to eat bread without salt, so it is impossible to
practice virtue without love.
Behind our exaggerated estimates of our
own virtue there usually lies a more or less hidden consciousness that our case is not so strong as we would have it.
I just simply wanted to praise both his civic and
personal virtue in this specific case.
It carries biblical origins and grew in popularity along with these other
virtue names.
The chief
political virtue of cap - and - trade — a hugely complex scheme to reduce greenhouse gases — is its very complexity.
And like a lot of games, there's an element of chance, it isn't always fair, and the process doesn't always
reward virtue.
They recognize and recommend different ways of pursuing the goal of perfection, focusing less on
traditional virtues than on the unique qualities of a particular person.
It's built to be more efficient than bitcoin, partly
through virtue of being a newer and more optimized cryptocurrency.
Their differences
becomes virtues, their mistakes accepted, as it becomes more and more unclear what we are looking at.
This is not a story likely to
teach virtue or gratitude to a child when young.
The field of psychology, which once taught us not to value character, is beginning to
praise virtues as necessary for the good life.
We consider the lack of a central authority to be an
essential virtue, which means that we can't be protected by one either.
Waiting and hoping have been advocated as
primary virtues to marginal peoples by comfortable church people who have not had to do much of either.
The modern American HR office is a symbol of a culture's
defining virtue down.