natural virtues

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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

With all, moreover, Father Hecker insisted on the practice of the natural virtues, honesty, temperance, truthfulness, kindliness. courage, and manliness generally, as preceding any practical move towards the higher life.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

They had faults, great ones if you please; at the same time they knew them to be faults, and they had the natural virtues in greater or less degrees.

From Life of Father Hecker by Elliott, Walter

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