When W. E. B. Du Bois spoke in 1903 about embracing the «greater ideals of the American Republic» and the «spirit of the Declaration of Independence «11 he was only doing in the language of his day what Gordon and Cruse in our own time do when they espouse democracy and pluralism as fundamental to the American republic. (religion-online.org)
Or it means that people's ideals change to match the traits that members of one's preferred sex generally possess (e.g., men report greater ideals for physical attractiveness because women are more attractive than men). (pauleastwick.com)
Putting Jesus to the test, a professionally accomplished lawyer asked for a definition of a «neighbor,» the love of whom Jesus had set forth as the second great ideal for human life. (religion-online.org)