moral excellence
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In this way, it relates to ren, a concept that refers to someone with complete virtue or specific virtues needed to achieve moral excellence.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
In contrast to consequentialism or duty-based deontology, virtue ethics emphasizes virtues or moral excellence.
From Slate • Apr. 15, 2019
Yet he and his father both questioned whether there would ever be a way to guarantee that moral excellence rose to the top in national politics.
From The Guardian • Apr. 13, 2019
Bush’s “kinder, gentler nation,” Bill Clinton’s “putting people first,” George W. Bush’s “compassionate conservatism” and Barack Obama’s “change we can believe in” all aspired to moral excellence.
From Washington Times • Feb. 28, 2017
The first condition of all really great moral excellence is a spirit of genuine self-sacrifice and self-renunciation.
From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole
