Virtue
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Of course, all seducers of the masses, potential tyrants, or fanatics, have used this argument to make their case; the communists did the same when they declared themselves the most enlightened segment of the population, and, by
virtue
of this alleged enlightenment, arrogated to themselves the right to rule arbitrarily.
What
virtue
do the “official” nuclear powers possess that democratic India lacks?
Of course, we also hear that a
virtue
of financing debt through capital markets rather than banks is that the shock of an abrupt re-pricing or write-off will not impair the credit channel to the real economy to the degree that it did in 2008-2009.
SentriesThe notion that people have inalienable rights – the right to free speech and association, or the right not to be tortured – simply by
virtue
of their existence as human beings: that notion is, of course, a fiction.
Indeed, the notion of absolute rights inhering in human beings by
virtue
of their humanity initially arises as a wild assertion in the face of eons of stark evidence to the contrary.
The same is true for the
virtue
of tolerance and for multilingualism.
Psychologically, this
virtue
implies the ability to put oneself in others' position.
If that seems shocking today, the loss of
virtue
must be traced to the all-pervasive “permit raj,” with its licensing requirements to import, produce, and invest, which grew to gargantuan proportions.
Moreover, market relations stimulate honesty as a
virtue.
Nevertheless, Bush’s initiative is not devoid of
virtue.
And it has the
virtue
of doing so without hurting China’s future production capacity.
Doing so would also turn a painful necessity into a threefold
virtue.
But the assumption of
virtue
among those who count themselves as progressive may help to explain the popularity of right-wing agitators, as well as the link between anti-immigrant sentiment and denial of climate change.
These figures, who were indeed often inspired by noble motives, held a firm belief that their innate Protestant
virtue
gave them the right to govern.
Like a child who refuses to eat his spinach, just because his mother claims it is good for him, supporters of Trump, Brexiteers, or Baudet want to give the finger to the politics of
virtue.
This brings me to the second illusion: the blind belief in the supreme
virtue
of economic integration across borders, with its corollary that national frontiers are obstacles to the more perfect integration of markets.
The
virtue
of such an approach is that it spares national governments from having to issue new debt.
To some degree, policymakers are making a
virtue
of necessity, given developing countries’ relative lack of influence on globalization.
The neoliberal insight that came in for the greatest criticism after the crisis was that fiscal restraint is a
virtue
and rewards adherents with lower interest rates, cheaper credit, and enhanced consumer spending.
Rather, actions were shaped by bureaucrats and then defended after the fact as a testament to Swedish
virtue.
In addition, the court proceedings would have had the further, even more essential,
virtue
of underlining how the toleration of lies can gravely harm a democracy.
For US allies, patience will remain a
virtue.
And although we rightly admire acts of personal courage, we no longer demand it as a public
virtue.
Moral courage, as distinct from physical courage, is a civic rather than a military
virtue.
Similarly, those on the right are unlikely to deliver greater prosperity, but their ideas have the
virtue
of sounding different.
Trump won the election in 2016 by converting his professional and temperamental unfitness for the presidency into a political
virtue.
Yet, in an environment where wealth inequality is rising inexorably, that drawback may be a
virtue.
“If you were to ask me what are the professed goals of most central bankers,” Viner wrote in 1964, “I would say on the basis of what I have heard them say that if they were appearing before a commission … they would either include a wide range of goals, including
virtue
and motherhood and also everything they could think of which is nice and good, or insist on the lack of power of central banks to serve effectively any specific important goal.”
Prudence is sometimes dismissed as mere self-interest, but in foreign policy, it becomes a
virtue.
Prudence is a necessary
virtue
for a good foreign policy, but it is not sufficient.
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