So, McCain's emphasis on the classical virtues gives them a post- Clinton glow without pushing them to confront their own lives.

In the 18th century English gardens and French landscape gardening often featured Roman temples, which symbolized classical virtues or ideals.

He called his utopia Sophis, setting it in Africa, and gave it classical Greek virtues but without war, slavery or sexual inequality.

As such, some commentators have called it the first systematic and holistic attempt to relate the classical virtues to professional leadership in modern times.

That is the stargazing that appeals to Dr. Riess, who shares few of the classical astronomical virtues.

Machievelli extended the study of classical virtue in the sense of skill, valor and leadership, to encompass the individual prince or war-leader as well.

All the while, classical virtues, the visual in particular, are preserved.

The Renaissance idea that the classical Roman virtues had been lost under medievalism was especially powerful in European politics of the 18th and 19th centuries.

Justice, Strength, and Temperance were three classical "cardinal virtues" depicted in the more familiar Tarot trumps.

She said there, capitalism "is an ethically drenched human activity" which requires attention to all of the classical seven virtues, while economists usually focus exclusively on prudence.