Sentences with phrase «class about morality»

It makes total sense that we met in a class about morality and goodness.

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Whatever doubts may exist about the sources of this democracy, there can be none about the chief source of the morality that gives it life and substance... [From the Hebrew tradition, via the Puritans, come] the contract and all its corollaries; the higher law as something more than a «brooding omnipresence in the sky»; the concept of the competent and responsible individual; certain key ingredients of economic individualism; the insistence on a citizenry educated to understand its rights and duties; and the middle - class virtues, that high plateau of moral stability on which, so Americans believe, successful democracy must always build [Seedtime of the Republic (Harcourt, Brace, 1953, p. 55)-RSB-.

Now, writes his biographer, «Mann was about to preach a new religion and convince his constituency of the need for a new establishment, a nondenominational institution, the public school, with schoolmasters as a new priestly class, patriotic exercises as quasi-religious rituals, and a nonsectarian doctrine stressing morality, literacy and citizenship as a republican creed for all to confess.

Ultimately is is not even necessarily about morality or class as it is generally the poorest and most vulnerable who really get it in the neck if an economy implodes... just ask the Greeks.

Topics of the Channel: Morality, Discussions about spiritual aspects, Culture and music, Vegetarian and vegetarian - vegan cooking classes, and Program for children.

For lead actor, dark horse «Biutiful» star Javier Bardem — who portrays a hustler confronting questions about his mortality and morality in the Barcelona - set film — edged strong contenders including «Blue Valentine» heartthrob Ryan Gosling, Robert Duvall's portrayal of a hermit in «Get Low» and Mark Wahlberg's turn as a working - class boxer in «The Fighter.»

There's something wonderfully delicious about a large - budget Hollywood production of Vanity Fair — the 19th - century novel whose aim was to skewer a self - important class that reveled in its own preening excess and adhered to its own inverted version of morality.

Commonly they are British period costume dramas of manners where women are tempestuous, men are either be cruel or intensely romantic, and prevalent themes of station, class, character and morality are bandied about.

Their efforts to escape are complicated by challenges to their beliefs about class, religion, and morality, and make for compelling otherworldly adventure.

I talked about this conundrum this week in a freshmen humanities class, in which we were reading Immanuel Kant on morality.