" 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 ).

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 clapper bridge at Postbridge, which is the central location of Phillpotts ' novel The Thief of Virtue.

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.

Virtue jurisprudence is the view that the laws should promote the development of virtuous characters by citizens.

Virtue jurisprudence is the view that the laws should promote the development of virtuous characters by citizens.

The active expression of Tao is called Te ( also spelled – and pronounced – De, or even Teh ; often translated with Virtue or Power ; ), in a sense that Te results from an individual living and cultivating the Tao.

his being infinitely happy in himself from all eternity, and from his goodness manifested in his works, that he could have no other design in creating mankind than their happiness ; and therefore he wills their happiness ; therefore the means of their happiness: therefore that my behaviour, as far as it may be a means of the happiness of mankind, should be such … thus the will of God is the immediate criterion of Virtue, and the happiness of mankind the criterion of the wilt of God ; and therefore the happiness of mankind may be said to be the criterion of virtue, but once removed …( and )… I am to do whatever lies in my power towards promoting the happiness of mankind.

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.

" This consistency of soul, out of which morally good actions spring, is Virtue, true good can only consist in Virtue.

Virtue is absolutely opposed to Vice, the two cannot exist in the same thing together, and cannot be increased or decreased ; no one moral action is more virtuous than another.

In his Inquiry Concerning Virtue ( 1699 ), Shaftesbury had postulated that the moral sense in humans is natural and innate and based on feelings rather than resulting from the indoctrination of a particular religion.

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.

The lack of scientific foundation is acknowledged by some believers, including Doreen Virtue, author of The Care and Feeding of Indigos, and James Twyman, who produced two films on indigo children and who offers materials and courses related to the phenomenon.

Virtue (, " arete ") is moral excellence.

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

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.

She was cast in the play The Mask of Virtue in 1935, and received excellent reviews, followed by interviews and newspaper articles.

Virtue ethics focuses on the character of those who are acting, while both deontological ethics and consequentialism focus on the status of the action, rule, or disposition itself.

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 ).

" The name of the holy Virtues signifies a certain powerful and unshakable virility welling forth into all their Godlike energies ; not being weak and feeble for any reception of the divine Illuminations granted to it ; mounting upwards in fullness of power to an assimilation with God ; never falling away from the Divine Life through its own weakness, but ascending unwaveringly to the superessential Virtue which is the Source of virtue: fashioning itself, as far as it may, in virtue ; perfectly turned towards the Source of virtue, and flowing forth providentially to those below it, abundantly filling them with virtue.

30 Seconds to Mars released the self-titled debut album in 2002, produced by Bob Ezrin, Brian Virtue and the band itself.

The only way to destroy the Guardian is to extinguish the life force of Britannia itself, but the people may be saved by evacuating them to the island of Skara Brae and using the power of the Runes of Virtue to protect them.

# Virtue ethics, derived from Aristotle's and Confucius's notions, which asserts that the right action will be that chosen by a suitably ' virtuous ' agent.

A Vindication of Political Virtue: The Political Theory of Mary Wollstonecraft.

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.

Franklin: The Autobiography and other Writings on Politics, Economics, and Virtue.

Diderot's earliest works included a translation of Temple Stanyan's History of Greece ( 1743 ); with two colleagues, François-Vincent Toussaint and Marc-Antoine Eidous, he produced a translation of Robert James's Medicinal Dictionary ( 1746 – 1748 ); at about the same time he published a free rendering of Shaftesbury's Inquiry Concerning Virtue and Merit ( 1745 ), with some original notes of his own.

* Discordian texts and scriptures include Principia Discordia, Black Iron Prison, Zen Without Zen Masters, Liber Malorum, Book 5 ( The Zenarchist's Cookbook ), Zenarchy Unapologia, The Book of the Apocalypso, The Book of Eris, The Book of Inconveniences, The Honest Book of Truth ( portions of which are used in Principia Discordia ), Jonesboria Discordia, Metaclysmia Discordia, Novus Ordo Discordia, Principia Harmonia, Aeturnus Ille Discordia, The Wise Book of Baloney, The Book of Life, The Book of Chaos and Its Virtue, Chao Te Ching, Summa Discordia, Voices of Chaos, The Book of Chaos, Apocrypha Discordia, Principia Entropius, etc.

Thus, Daodejing can be translated as " The Classic / Canon of the Way / Path and the Power / Virtue ," etc.

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.

* Rand, Ayn, 1964, The Virtue of Selfishness.

Elizabeth I: The Shrewdness of Virtue.

Against Robespierre's concepts of Deism and Virtue, Hébert's ( and Chaumette's ) atheist movement initiated a religious campaign to dechristianize society.

* Walker, Leslie H. " Sweet and Consoling Virtue: The Memoirs of Madame Roland " Eighteenth-Century Studies, French Revolutionary Culture ( 2001 ): 403 – 419.

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.

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?

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

Legislators from the Iraqi Accord Front, Sadrist Movement and Islamic Virtue Party all opposed the bill.

* Sosa, Ernest ( 1991 ) " Reliabilism and Intellectual Virtue ," in E. Sosa, Knowledge In Perspective, Cambridge Press, pp. 131 – 145.