" Venerable / Heroic in Virtue " When enough information has been gathered, the congregation will recommend to the pope that he make a proclamation of the Servant of God's heroic virtue ( that is, that the servant exhibited the theological virtues of faith, hope and charity, and the cardinal virtues of prudence, justice, fortitude and temperance, to a heroic degree ).

In addition, Nietzsche ( in Beyond Good and Evil ) and Alasdair MacIntyre ( in After Virtue ) have pointed out that the ancient Greeks did not associate morality with altruism in the way that post-Christian Western civilization has done.

In the Section on Virtue, and Chapter 32 of the Tirukkuṛaḷ ( c. 200 BC-500 AD ), Tiruvaḷḷuvar says: Why does a man inflict upon other creatures those sufferings, which he has found by experience are sufferings to himself?

Virtue, according to the utilitarian doctrine, is not naturally and originally part of the end, but it is capable of becoming so ; and in those who love it disinterestedly it has become so, and is desired and cherished, not as a means to happiness, but as a part of their happiness.

MacIntyre's book After Virtue famously dismissed the naturalistic teleology of Aristotle's ' metaphysical biology ', but he has cautiously moved from that book's account of a sociological teleology toward an exploration of what remains valid in a more traditional teleological naturalism.

The content of one of his speeches is still known, and concerns a fable in which Heracles has to make a choice between Virtue and Vice.

Perhaps Madsen's most famous work is Vice and Virtue in the Middle Time ( Tugt og utugt i mellemtiden, 1976 ) which has been translated into English.

Norman Fiering, a specialist in the intellectual history of colonial New England, has described Francis Hutcheson as “ probably the most influential and respected moral philosopher in America in the eighteenth century .” Hutcheson's early Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue, introducing his perennial association of " unalienable rights " with the collective right to resist oppressive government, was used at Harvard College as a textbook as early as the 1730s.

There is, and always has been, sharp disagreement on this question: thus, as Alasdair MacIntyre observed in After Virtue, though thinkers as diverse as Homer, Aristotle, the authors of the New Testament, Thomas Aquinas, and Benjamin Franklin have all proposed lists, and sometimes theories of the interrelation, of the virtues, these do not always overlap.

* Alasdair MacIntyre has made an effort to reconstruct a virtue-based theory in dialogue with the problems of modern and postmodern thought ; his works include After Virtue and Three Rival Versions of Moral Enquiry.

* Rosalind Hursthouse has published On Virtue Ethics.

Virtue ethics has a number of applications.

# Virtue ethics has implications for an account of the proper ends of legislation.

# Virtue ethics has implications for legal ethics.

In the Storytelling System, each character has one Virtue and one Vice.

Hezbollah has clashed violently with the Islamic Virtue Party which controls Basrah governorate.

In the book Piglet is shown to possess great power — a common interpretation of the word Te, which more commonly means Virtue — not only because he is small, but also because he has a great heart or, to use a Taoist term, Tz ' u.

She has published her own translations of the Tao Te Ching, The Book of the Way and Its Virtue by Lao Tzu, the traditional founder of Taoism ( Daoism ).

In 15, Scipio, choosing Virtue over Vice, has a successful campaign in Spain, while at the Battle of the Metaurus, Hannibal's brother is killed.

The Origins of Virtue ( ISBN 0-670-86357-2, ISBN 0-670-87449-3, ISBN 0-14-024404-2 ) is a 1996 popular science book by Matt Ridley, which has been recognised as a classic in its field.

Predecessor culture is a sociological phrase originating in Alasdair MacIntyre's book, After Virtue, in which he considers society before the Enlightenment's project of rationalizing all things as having an internal consistency and meaning which has been lost to us.

The area through which the street runs has been known as Notre-Dame-de-Vertu, Notre-Dame-de-la-Vertu, or Notre-Dame-des-Vertus ( Our Lady of Virtue ) since at least 1700.

The nineteenth-century critic who has most lastingly and profoundly influenced MacIntyre is not Nietzsche but Marx — indeed, After Virtue originates in MacIntyre's plans to write a book repairing the moral weaknesses of Marxism.

Jerkins has written or produced for Brandy, Michael Jackson, Beyoncé, Toni Braxton, Jessica Simpson, Jennifer Lopez, Aaliyah, Mary Mary, Destiny's Child, Spice Girls, Mel B, Shola Ama, TLC, Will Smith, Janet Jackson, Beyoncé, Whitney Houston, Mary J. Blige, Men of Vizion, Keith Washington, Lionel Richie, Kirk Franklin, Kierra Sheard, Virtue, Trin-i-tee 5: 7 and Deitrick Haddon.

Rong, the son of Weishi, fled and made submission to the Han, who named him: “ Marquis Who Maintains Virtue .” A general from Suoju ( Yarkand ), named Junde, had been posted to Yutian ( Khotan ), and tyrannised the people there who became indignant.

Stilpo seems to have been interested in Virtue, and its self-sufficiency.

His books -- Postmodernism Rightly Understood, Aliens in America, Stuck with Virtue, and Homeless and at Home in America -- have been widely and positively reviewed.

Landscaping began in 1838 with the hiring of James Virtue, who planted privet inside the fence as a border ; by 1839 pathways had been laid out and trees and shrub planted.

In April, 1895 the Dai Nippon Butoku Kai, or “ All Japan Martial Virtue Society ” had been established by civilian enthusiasts of various traditional Japanese arts such as Archery, Ju-jutsu and Ken-jutsu.

The Moralia include On the Fortune or the Virtue of Alexander the Great — an important adjunct to his Life of the great general — On the Worship of Isis and Osiris ( a crucial source of information on Egyptian religious rites ), and On the Malice of Herodotus ( which may, like the orations on Alexander's accomplishments, have been a rhetorical exercise ), in which Plutarch criticizes what he sees as systematic bias in the Father of History's work ; along with more philosophical treatises, such as On the Decline of the Oracles, On the Delays of the Divine Vengeance, On Peace of Mind and lighter fare, such as Odysseus and Gryllus, a humorous dialog between Homer's Odysseus and one of Circe's enchanted pigs.

Law professor Ken Gromley's book The Death of American Virtue reveals that Clinton escaped a 1996 assassination attempt in the Philippines by terrorists working for Osama bin Laden.

Virtue ethics describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior, and is used to describe the ethics of Socrates, Aristotle, and other early Greek philosophers.

The Marquis de Sade used a Gothic framework for some of his fiction, notably The Misfortunes of Virtue and Eugenie de Franval, though the marquis himself never thought of his work as such.

He is kind to the kind ; he is also kind to the unkind: for Virtue is kind.

He is faithful to the faithful ; he is also faithful to the unfaithful: for Virtue is faithful.

Taliban hit-squads from the infamous " Ministry for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice " watched the streets conducting arbitrary brutal and public beatings of people.

On 15 February 2009, in a reshuffle King Abdullah removed Sheikh Ibrahim Bin Abdullah Al-Ghaith from his position as President of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

This change of ruling heads is portrayed in the morality play, Liberality and Prodigality, where Equity serves Virtue in the detection, arrest, and punishment of Prodigality for the robbery and murder of Tenacity, a yeoman in the country of Middlesex.

Like other Sharia laws, alcohol prohibition is enforced by Mutaween, the Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice.

He is best known for his three epistolary novels: Pamela: Or, Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ), Clarissa: Or the History of a Young Lady ( 1748 ) and The History of Sir Charles Grandison ( 1753 ).

Early in 2002 Smith ( who was preparing for his first Hollywood role in the Bruce Willis action film Tears of the Sun ) went to China to shoot the US-Chinese martial arts film Warriors of Virtue 2, which would allow him to work with the stuntman from Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon.

In 1726 he published A letter to a Deist concerning the Beauty and Excellency of Moral Virtue, and the Support and Improvement which it receives from the Christian Religion, chiefly designed to show that, while a love of virtue for its own sake is the highest principle of morality, religious rewards and punishments are most valuable, and in some cases absolutely indispensable, as sanctions of conduct.

Becoming Good American Schools: The Struggle for Civic Virtue in Education Reform.

Bem, for his bravery, was nominated as Commander-in-Chief of Artillery and was honoured with a Virtue Militari Cross.

Other major 18th century English novelists are Samuel Richardson ( 1689-1761 ), author of the epistolary novels Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded ( 1740 ) and Clarissa ( 1747-8 ); Henry Fielding ( 1707 – 54 ), who wrote Joseph Andrews ( 1742 ) and The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling ( 1749 ); Laurence Sterne ( 1713 – 68 ) who published Tristram Shandy in parts between 1759 and 1767 ; Oliver Goldsmith (? 1730-74 ) author of The Vicar of Wakefield ( 1766 ); Tobias Smollett ( 1721 – 71 ) a Scottish novelist best known for his comic picaresque novels, such as The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle ( 1751 ) and The Expedition of Humphry Clinker ( 1771 ), who influenced Charles Dickens ; and Fanny Burney ( 1752-1840 ), whose novels " were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen ," wrote Evelina ( 1778 ), Cecilia ( 1782 ) and Camilla ( 1796 ).

With its tiny population of about 7 million, Australia ranked sixth in the world for scheduled air mileage, had 16 airlines, was growing at twice the world average, and had produced a number of prominent aviation pioneers, including Lawrence Hargrave, Harry Hawker, Lawrence Wackett, the Reverend John Flynn, Sidney Cotton, Keith Virtue and Charles Kingsford Smith.

He was induced to start a private academy in Dublin, where he taught for 10 years, also studying philosophy and produced during 1725 Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue.

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Robespierre, generally the spokesman for the successful faction, had great esteem for his reputation as " the sea-green incorruptible ", and set up the slogan of the Republic of Virtue, until the Jacobins ' last purge, 9 Thermidor, 27 July 1794.

However, as Alasdair MacIntyre notes ( in After Virtue, 2007 ), Sidgwick reluctantly had to confess that he had gone in search for Cosmos and found only Chaos, i. e., he could find no rational foundation to basic moral beliefs ; where he had hoped to find unity, he could only locate heterogeneity.

In the center of the Temple of Buddhist Virtue stands the Tower of Buddhist Incense ( Fo Xiang Ge ), which forms the focal point for the buildings on the southern slope of Longevity Hill.

Virtue ethics describes the character of a moral agent as a driving force for ethical behavior, rather than rules ( deontology ), consequentialism ( which derives rightness or wrongness from the outcome of the act itself rather than character ), or social context ( pragmatic ethics ).