Virtue
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Furthermore, the army will always remain a school of discipline, loyalty to the country, coexistence, and solidarity, and thus also a school of civic virtue, including civic pride and self-confidence.
Slow and predictable decision-making is a
virtue
for such a creature, but it is maladapted for the fast-moving and complex world of twenty-first-century banks.
Unlike personal tastes, which are fickle and offer no sure path to happiness or virtue, duties can be discerned by a logical mechanism common to all humans.
Simply put, when middle-class Europeans begin to think that a good portion of the poor are recent immigrants, their ingrained belief in the
virtue
of the welfare state will begin to waver.
Hope has not, after all, become a redundant
virtue
in the twenty-first century.
Just by
virtue
of being there, the force shows the goodwill and commitment of the nations that sent it, and, by projecting a sense of law and order, it provides valuable leverage for honest brokers trying to mediate a peace deal.
After all, with a regime as volatile as North Korea’s, patience is never a
virtue.
There is, he maintained, “an intimate connection between public
virtue
and public happiness.”
That
virtue
consisted in honoring commitments, and it would build solidarity in the new political community of the United States.
Indeed, public
virtue
made federal finance what he called “the powerful cement of our union.”
Europeans today have latched onto the practical side of Hamilton’s argument – that is, the idea that debt mutualization might be a means to cheaper credit; but they have worked out neither the political institutions, nor the shared public virtue, that Hamilton deemed crucial.
The great
virtue
of capitalism is that it adapts to ruinous conditions and even finds ways of turning them to advantage.
But that is simply an attempt to make a
virtue
out of necessity: for a country with one of the world’s largest and most storied bureaucracies, China has a surprisingly difficult time telling its business community not to do business with someone, especially a historic friend and ally.
Ennobling DemocracyWARSAW -- Ever since democracy appeared in ancient Athens, it has generated suspicion among those who believe that humanity’s highest purpose is virtue, not freedom.
The former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, had, it seemed, provided a perverse lesson in
virtue
when, having been caught lying about his educational credentials, protested that he did not remember whether he had actually defended his master’s thesis as required to receive his degree.
His other great virtue, perhaps, is having ensured, through his work and henceforth in the minds of those inspired by it, that the dark memory of that exception that was the Holocaust will not exclude – indeed, that the Holocaust requires – ardent solidarity with the victims of all other genocides.
Climate change also represents a case study of how we can make a
virtue
out of a necessity, and an opportunity out of a threat.
America’s Fiscal IsolationismDENVER – Patience might be a virtue, but not necessarily when it comes to American foreign policy.
Questions about her record have been sidestepped; her inexperience is lauded as a virtue; any criticism is dismissed as sexism.
The
virtue
of democracy is that debate may lead to just such a consensus.
The fact that India has moved from an agricultural economy to a service-driven economy with almost no growth in industry is not a virtue; it is an outcome of policies that have hampered manufacturing and mining.
But this impossibility can be turned into a virtue, by creating a public trust fund to which companies like Google transfer a percentage – say, 10% – of their shares.
He didn't fear power structures that were based on government intervention or the desire by government to plan the economy, but those based on the desire of participants in the economic process to eliminate competition and determine the process of supply and demand by
virtue
of either monopoly or cartels.
Compounding the problem is the well-known advantage that extremists have over moderates, by
virtue
of yelling the loudest.
Although there is such a thing as original sin – the wickedness that simmers, blows up, and scars young children and their family and friends – there is also original virtue, which is always present after terrorist atrocities.
Skeptics will say that the US is simply making a
virtue
of necessity.
The Intellectual and PoliticsPRAGUE: Does an intellectual - by
virtue
of his efforts to get below the surface of things, to grasp relations, causes and effects, to recognize individual items as part of larger entities, and thus derive a deeper awareness and responsibility for the world - belong in politics?
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 sector of the population and, by
virtue
of this alleged enlightenment, arrogated to themselves the right to rule arbitrarily.
Of course, China stands to gain much from the renminbi’s emergence as an alternative international reserve currency, sharing in the “exorbitant privilege” that the US currently enjoys by
virtue
of the dollar’s global status.
Placing emphasis on governance also has the apparent
virtue
of helping to shift the focus of reform toward inherently desirable objectives.
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