Kierkegaard 
.... Repeatedly Kierkegaard uses the phrase "by
virtue of the
absurd," which suggests that people of faith admit that the
absurd cannot be decoded but go ahead and ....
(1566
6
)
Socrates' Accepting View of Death
.... If Pablo's stubbornness is seen as courageous and virtuous, life is rendered even more
absurd, because that "
virtue" has led to the death of another and to the ....
(1742
7
)
Camus Sense of the Absurd
.... There is no reprieve, and this makes life
absurd. .... Camus would later be proud of his working-class family and would see a
virtue in their lives, though it may ....
(4207
17
)
Nicomachean Ethics
.... In other words, in order to form moral
virtue, the individual must consciously .... it is
absurd to blame external circumstances rather than oneself for falling an ....
(1550
6
)
Utilitarianism and John Stuart Mill
.... It would be
absurd that, while in estimating all other things quality is considered as .... Mill uses to support the utilitarian way of thinking is that of
virtue. ....
(1518
6
)
Theory of Moral Sentiment
.... appears to him
absurd and extravagant in the highest degree. . . (Smith 189). This discussion demonstrates the sources Smith sees as serving to produce
virtue. ....
(2080
8
)
Use of Personal Experience by 3 Authors
.... would later be proud of his working-class family and would see a
virtue in their .... an ethical dilemma in the face of his realization that life is
absurd and that ....
(2035
8
)
Socrates The Apology
.... And
virtue does not simply "happen." It must be proactively nurtured and developed .... exist; and thus even now nothing would be in existence--which is
absurd" (154 ....
(4497
18
)
Poems by Ogden Nash
.... The fourth stanza is a paean to the
virtue of slumbering; after all, a sleeping man has no malice .... The ironic,
absurd tone of the poem is its most obvious feature ....
(2612
10
)
Philosophical Principles
.... is an activity in accordance with
virtue and so in accordance with the highest
virtue. .... be based on experience, and the idea of doing so is
absurd in Kant's ....
(4734
19
)
Plato and Rousseau Freedom
.... the commoners are interested in pleasures and their
virtue needs be .... alone legitimizes civil undertakings, which, without it, would be
absurd, tyrannical, and ....
(1928
8
)
Moral Philosophies & Drug Usage
.... Hume thus defines
virtue as whatever mental action or quality gives the observer a feeling of .... the will of God is a good will, but that it is
absurd to speak of ....
(3825
15
)
Joseph Andrews (Henry Fielding)
.... Stringing together an episodic series of
absurd and fanciful twists and turns within .... earliest career was as a printer, presents the tale of
virtue retained as ....
(1850
7
)
The Iliad
.... What Aristotle refers to as the "marvellous"--ie, the uncanny,
absurd, miraculous, or .... than the measure of humanity: men will live it not by
virtue of their ....
(3823
15
)
THE SALT AND IRON DEBATES
.... The LM also talked a lot about
virtue as an end in itself, but deemed it to be .... This is an
absurd argument on the face of it, and presumes that if everyone was ....
(1687
7
)
Shoah: The Paradigmatic Genocide
.... of Shoah, the only example of absolute novum/evil in history, renders
absurd all words .... Their death is not merely a victory of
virtue over evil, but is rather a ....
(1861
7
)
Republican Welfare Plan
.... people not to strive for merit and reward, and for that matter is as
absurd to believe .... Woodward, Kenneth L. "What Is
Virtue?." Newsweek (June 13, 1994), 38-39.
(1562
6
)
Miss American Pageant
.... it continues to insist that participants conform to an image of chastity and
virtue. .... Some of the rules may seem archaic and others may be patently
absurd. ....
(3438
14
)
Controversies Regarding Miss America Pageant
.... it continues to insist that participants conform to an image of chastity and
virtue. .... Some of the rules may seem archaic and others may be patently
absurd. ....
(3438
14
)
Contemporary Philosophical Orientation
.... What Camus refers to as the
absurd man "knows himself to be the master .... an artificial construction, a creature of culture, " produced only by
virtue of multiple ....
(4925
20
)
Grotowski's Theater
.... notable and not unrelated exceptions: (1) the theatre of the
absurd, which developed .... possible to argue that in that regard Grotowski made a
virtue of necessity ....
(3038
12
)
German-Italian Alliance in WWII: Articulating the Underlying Human ...
.... Duce, Benito Mussolini, told his generals that it was "
absurd and impossible .... relates, "Italian soldiers habitually used the language of Christian
virtue in both ....
(1361
5
)
African-Americans in Film
.... The portrayal of black men in both films is
absurd, but their intentions .... But the hypersexual buck who threatens the
virtue of white heroines disappeared from ....
(3302
13
)
Letters of Madame de Sevigne
.... of the hapless king of England, and the summoning of that
absurd little Dutchman to .... as I said, an entirely ordinary man; he would not tempt the
virtue of even ....
(3317
13
)
The Organization of the Massachusetts Bay Colony
.... by Mather and many Puritans due to their belief that they maintained a
virtue on faith .... presents Jim in ways that make it clear how ludicrous and
absurd the then ....
(3220
13
)
Aristophanes' The Birds
.... However, all that apparent
virtue vanishes immediately upon this tempting scenario laid .... Here in Aristophanes' play, a similarly
absurd scheme is born in which ....
(2690
11
)
Zen and Socrates
.... designed to expose ignorance - and allow the possibility of knowledge and
virtue. .... Christianity and other religions which force you to believe
absurd dogma with ....
(1100
4
)
The Controversy over Slave Power
.... half of the nation should suffer the weaker to rule over it in
virtue of its .... It is
absurd to make the case that the North was somehow being held hostage by the ....
(1282
5
)
Utilitarianism and Kantian Ethics
.... It would be
absurd that . . . .... else, the imperative is hypothetical; if the action is represented as good in itself and therefore as necessary, in
virtue of its ....
(1891
8
)
"Action" by Sam Shepard
.... and diminishes the very images and effects it aims to create by
virtue of its .... It is
absurd: a man keeps breaking chairs for apparently no reason; a woman ....
(1693
7
)
