Sentences with phrase «certain human virtues»

For classical philosophers law had an educational function; it was set up to structure individual and communal life in order to produce certain human virtues.

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Pride being the hatefullest of the virtues, the human spirit now turns away from this certain - sure morality, though it has nothing else in particular to turn to.

One needs certain virtues like courage, temperance and justice in order to realize human good, but those virtues are also necessary to be a good citizen.

I maintained that, contrary to the commonly expressed or tacitly accepted view, the era of active evolution did not end with the appearance of the human zoological type: for by virtue of his acquirement of the gift of individual reflection Man displays the extraordinary quality of being able to totalize himself collectively upon himself, thus extending on a planetary scale the fundamental vital process which causes matter, under Certain conditions, to organize itself in elements which are ever more complex physically, and psychologically ever more centrated.

I am going to maintain that while all the human virtues should ideally be acquired by everyone, certain virtues are more appropriate to men, and other virtues are more appropriate to women.

That said, while there may be very real difficulties in establishing a legal basis (and even less an enforceable right) for continuing and / or future enjoyment of any right to reside (and / or work) in the UK (or at least to reside in the UK as a matter of right rather than discretion), international law and / or the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)(at the very least on the international plane and, in relation to the ECHR, at least as long as it remains part of English law) are almost certain to protect certain rights established in the past by virtue of the individual's presence in the UK.