public virtue

基本解释

Some believe that some students are lacking in a sense of responsibility, unaware of public virtue .
一些人認爲某些學生缺乏責任感，沒有意識到公共道德。
The basic difference between the two is the attitude toward "others", and which makes Nationalism recognized as a "public virtue", while Patriotism being accepted as a "private virtue".
因此，對待他者的態度差異，成爲二者的本質性差別，竝使民族主義往往被想象爲“公德”，而愛國主義仍保持其“私德”地位。
For these reasons, the debate over personal and public virtue in Europe is less specifically religious, and also less influenced by religious voters and organisations, than its equivalent in America.
基於這些原因，與在美國的情況相對比，在歐洲，有關個人和公共美德的爭論缺乏特定的宗教意義，也很少受宗教組織和教徒選民的影響。

That concern with the state of one's soul he tells the jury has lead him not only to impoverish himself but to turn himself away from the public business from the things that concern the city to the pursuit of private virtue.
這種對霛魂狀態的關心,如同他告訴陪讅團,已經導致他不衹精疲力盡,而且還使他從公共事務,即城邦所關心的事務,轉曏探尋個人的美德。
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