Sentences with phrase «as an ethical ideal»

There the emphasis is on concern for others as an ethical ideal that is fulfilling for the individual.

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As Professor Alfred Whitehead puts it: «The result was that with passionate earnestness they gave free rein to their absolute ethical intuitions respecting ideal possibilities without a thought of the preservation of society.»

Part of the problem the way the question is posed is by assuming that we can abstract an ethical ideal from one part of scripture and use it to judge the actions of God in another part of scripture, as though scripture were given us so we could form such dehistoricized abstract ethical judgments!

Grace as sacrificial love is the pinnacle of the ethical norm of the Kingdom of God, the moral ideal of the Kingdom.

The panexperientialist version of physicalism does justice to this fact by portraying the mind in each moment (that is, each dominant occasion of experience) as having both a physical pole, which is constituted by the causal influences from the physical environment, and a mental pole, which entertains ideal possibilities, including logical, ethical, and aesthetic norms.

«Hence there is a place for ethical teaching, not as «interim ethics,» but as a moral ideal for men who have «accepted the Kingdom of God,» and live their lives in the presence of his judgment and His grace, now decisively revealed.»

The century opened with the older generation still following the Ritschlian approach to God in terms of ethical idealism,» and to Jesus as the historical fact exemplifying that ideal.

For instance, William Honig, the former state superintendent of schools in California, insisted that teachers instruct children in the common ethical convictions of the American people, «the ideals and standards we as a society hold to be worthy of praise and emulation.»

Hence Jesus» requirement of love can not be more nearly defined in content, or be regarded as an ethical principle from which particular concrete requirements can be derived, as would be possible with the humanistic command of love, which depends on a well - defined ideal of humanity.

However inapplicable to immediate conditions in this present age some precepts in the New Testament may seem to be, the ethical ideals of the New Testament as a whole have gone ahead of the race like a pillar of fire by night and of cloud by day.

As for Greco - Roman civilization, it was based squarely on slave labor, and one of the profoundest differences between the ancient Mediterranean culture and our own is that there slavery was taken for granted along with a growing consciousness of the moral compromise it involved with man's best ideals, while with us liberty is taken for granted along with deep ethical discontent at the parallels of slavery, or worse, which exist under the wage system.

The overpassing of the limitation of externality in early Hebrew morals involved not only the development of ethical ideals concerning special virtues such as magnanimity, but a profoundly important evolution of thought about the nature of sin in general and of what is necessary in securing salvation from it.

However, in a process and ecologically based ontology, such an ethical or normative plane is not given a priori as a fixed or non-changing Platonic ideal, but is derived continually within the concrescence of an ever - changing and evolving universe.

As Eric Erikson has shown, ethical ideals are vital elements in the ego's strength.

Always, in every place and every time, those who provide the energy and insight for real change in the human condition are those for whom values are not just ethical generalizations or moral ideals but, rather, life lived in faithfulness to apparently «insane truths» which define a real world as they have been given eyes to see it.

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The classical ideal was not only a poetic inspiration but also an ethical model and, in his creative quest, Mapplethorpe described photography as «the perfect way to make a sculpture.»

Widely viewed as the most effective attempt to promote the ideals of ethical consumption to a mainstream audience.

Students are taught to be «legal technicians,» with very little emphasis, at least during the first year, on the social and ethical ideals of the profession in its public role: «the first - year experience as a whole, without conscious and systematic efforts at counterbalance, tips the scales... away from cultivating the humanity of the student and toward the student's re-engineering into a «legal machine.

Specifically, Section III - C of the Code (Ethical Responsibilities to Colleagues / Responsibilities to Employees) was deleted, as these Ideals and Principles are addressed in the Supplement.

In an ideal world every seller would be knowledgeable enough and honest enough to be able to accurately initial «yes» or «no» or «unknown» boxes (of course with an ethical Realtor's explanations but non-coaching abilities) leading to an educated buyer who will nevertheless hire an ethical and knowledgeable home inspector (not a rubber - stamp artist, i.e., an obligated friend of the Realtor, be it the listing Realtor or the buyer Realtor) as a condition, which hopefully will culminate in a purchase with little or no subsequent surprises for the buyer.

Canadian real estate regulators are responsible for the uniformity of a MINIMUM standard of acceptable licensee behavior as articulated in regulation, while it appears that CREA members active in REM forums are advocating an IDEAL ethical standard of behavior.