natural virtues
Britishplural noun
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Some Renaissance thinkers praised the Indians as innocent “noble savages” whose natural virtues mocked the vices of civilized Christians, though exaggerated accounts of Indian innocence were as unrealistic as contrasting reports of Indian savagery.
From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018
God does not bestow a supernatural reward upon the natural gifts, or even upon the natural virtues, which are to be found among pagans as well as among Christians.
From The Happiness of Heaven By a Father of the Society of Jesus by Boudreaux, F. J.
Within the fourth and most important class, the social virtues, Hume distinguishes between the natural virtues of humanity and benevolence and the artificial virtues of justice and fidelity.
From History of Modern Philosophy From Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Falckenberg, Richard
We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
That many of the natural virtues have this tendency to the good of society, no one can doubt of.
From A Treatise of Human Nature by Hume, David
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