moral virtue
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmoralandvirtue
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moral
adjective
uk/ˈmɒr.əl/us/ˈmɔːr.əl/
relating to the standards of good or bad behaviour, fairness, honesty, etc. that each person believes in, rather than ...
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virtue
noun
uk/ˈvɜː.tʃuː/us/ˈvɝː.tʃuː/
a good moral quality in a person, or the general quality of being ...
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(Definition ofmoralandvirtuefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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Natural philosophy was supposed to lead tomoralvirtue, to modesty and religious reverence.
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Moralvirtuewould be downgraded because it would no longer be required for heaven.
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For it's not obvious whatmoralvirtuethis would express or develop.
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Characterizing the notion of amoralvirtueseems to me to be an exceptionally difficult task.
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At the heart of this diagnostic chart is one factor which is re-establishing itself, in an increasingly resource-conscious and cash-starved world, as amoralvirtuein its own right.
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Since exhibiting this virtue already takes account of each relevantmoralvirtue, it cannot conflict with any.
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Thus, the lack of control associated with religious virtue fails to subvert it as does lack of control in the case ofmoralvirtue.
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The obvious possibility is to regard justice as a straightforwardmoralvirtueor principle that applies to the law but is entirely independent of it.
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For in this case, rightness is no particularmoralvirtuebut rather the master virtue of acting morally, all things considered.
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To havemoralvirtueone must be a moral agent, the sort of being exemplifying agency, and intentional action.
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Moralvirtueconsists in obedience to the divine will.
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Because donor organs were regarded as a scarce resource, the ability to utilize them economically was described as amoralvirtueof transplantation coordinators and recipients.
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Obviously, it must not be taken to deny that any particular law or legal system can be unjust or prioritize somemoralvirtueother than justice.
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The state-supported ideology of themoralvirtueof pension sharing and of the ' natural ' selflessness of old-age pensioners dominates much of the public discourse on older people.
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He described broad universal moral ideals, avoiding rhetoric that condemned certain segments of the polis as lackingmoralvirtue.
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Distinctive institutional facts about the law give more importance to justice than to any othermoralvirtueor principle.
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Suppose we grant that haphazard harm due to human and natural forces is built into an overall desirable system, because required for free will and formoralvirtue.
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Reagan replaced his predecessors' explicit emphasis on stark moral individualism with two inventive rhetorical appeals that introduced a softer, more implicit, and less imposing version ofmoralvirtue.
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Nixon regarded the display ofmoralvirtueas prevalent - the "moral" majority was simply quieter than the "immoral" minority.
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I claim no greatmoralvirtuefor this.
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