Examples of virtue in the following topics:
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- Eighteenth century republicanism in the United States prioritized political participation, commitment to the common good, and individual virtue.
- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives.
- Civic virtue became a matter of public interest and discussion during the 18th century, in part because of the American Revolutionary War.
- In a republic, however, people must be persuaded to submit their own interests to the government, and this voluntary submission constituted the 18th century's notion of civic virtue.
- Independently wealthy men committed to liberty and property rights were considered most likely to possess sufficient civic virtue to safeguard a republic from the dangers of corruption.
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- The virtue of a knife is to cut; the virtue of a physician is to heal; the virtue of a lawyer is to seek justice.
- Yet, identifying such a virtue and making that virtue part of one's character are two quiet different things.
- Aristotle thus distinguishes between intellectual virtue and practical virtue.
- Practical virtues are those developed by practice and are a part of a person's character, while intellectual virtue is simply the identification and understanding of a virtue.
- Just as the virtue of the knife is to cut and the virtue of the boat is to sail, the virtue of the self is to become the best of who it can be.
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- Obedience can be seen as both a sin and a virtue.
- However when one orders a person to kill an enemy who will end a lot of innocent lives and he or she does this willingly it can be deemed a virtue.
- Obedience can be seen as both a sin and a virtue.
- However, when one orders a person to kill an enemy who will end a lot of innocent lives and he or she does this willingly, it can be deemed a virtue.
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- Drawing from colonial experience, British political liberties, classical Roman and Greek culture, and various notions of civic virtue, intellectuals and leaders devised a political theory known as "American republicanism".
- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives, and a virtuous citizen was one that ignored monetary compensation and made a commitment to resist and eradicate corruption.
- In the 1790s, during the years of the early United States Republic, these figures would vehemently disagree with each other not only over how republicanism should be politically structured (embodied by the struggle between Federalists and Anti-Federalists over the ratification of the Constitution), but also, over various definitions of proper civic virtue.
- Republican virtue, Federalists argued, was found in commerce, because commercial ties created the national strength and wealth necessary to safeguard liberties.
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- Although Jeffersonians extolled the virtues of the independent yeoman, they also were strongly in favor of slavery.
- It was thought that because these white men had been born and raised in a system of freedom and republicanism, they had cultivated the virtues necessary to manage their own liberties.
- Slaves, on the other hand, were considered uneducated, unenlightened, and simple people who could not be expected to understand the virtues of self-reliance or political freedom; they instead needed the guidance of the white farmer to manage their lives and affairs.
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- Socrates is said to have pursued this probing question-and-answer style of examination on a number of topics, usually attempting to arrive at a defensible and attractive definition of a virtue.
- Socrates taught that no one desires what is bad, and so if anyone does something that truly is bad, it must be unwillingly or out of ignorance; consequently, all virtue is knowledge.
- Socrates also questioned the Sophistic doctrine that arete (virtue) can be taught.
- Aristotle did not consider virtue to be simple knowledge as Plato did,
but founded in one’s nature, habit, and reason.
- Virtue was gained by acting in
accordance with nature and moderation.
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- By virtue of their profession, they have obligations to those they serve.
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- Virtue was of the utmost importance for citizens and representatives.
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- Popularized by Greek philosophers such as Aristotle, this point of view assumes that virtue is a central benchmark for all ethical behavior.
- What is meant by virtue in this context is a desire to perform a certain act as a result of deep contemplation on the value of that act.
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- This austere new religion of Virtue was received with signs of hostility by the Parisian public.
- As a result of Robespierre's insistence on associating Terror with Virtue, his efforts to make the republic a morally united patriotic community became equated with the endless bloodshed.