public virtue

基本解释

Some believe that some students are lacking in a sense of responsibility, unaware of public virtue .
一些人认为某些学生缺乏责任感，没有意识到公共道德。
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，对待他者的态度差异，成为二者的本质性差别，并使民族主义往往被想象为“公德”，而爱国主义仍保持其“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.
基于这些原因，与在美国的情况相对比，在欧洲，有关个人和公共美德的争论缺乏特定的宗教意义，也很少受宗教组织和教徒选民的影响。

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.
这种对灵魂状态的关心,如同他告诉陪审团,已经导致他不只精疲力尽,而且还使他从公共事务,即城邦所关心的事务,转向探寻个人的美德。
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