Sentences with phrase «classical moral tradition»

But a failure of gentleness is what keeps most survivors from achieving temperance; and the fact that gentleness is the last thing that comes to mind as necessary in a zombie apocalypse only shows how far we are from understanding the classical moral tradition.

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The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian etMORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian etmoral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

This global compilation of traditional wisdom shows that none of the great, classical religious traditions conceived of God as a mere intelligent Designer, or as a First Cause within nature, or as a highly moral Personality who happens to be divine as well, or any kind of all - powerful agent that has a primus inter pares relationship with other, less powerful Superbeings and Incredibles.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition: for rising high school juniors and seniors, with readings in Plato and Aristotle, and discussion of contemporary moral issues from a Judeo - Christian perspective.

Moral Life and the Classical Tradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian moTradition (Women: June 19 — 25, 2016; Men: June 26 — July 2, 2016) is a seminar for rising high school juniors and seniors interested in the ancient philosophical tradition and its influence in the Christian motradition and its influence in the Christian moral life.

The moral tradition that shaped the West is an amalgam of classical and Christian sources.

This allows Balthasar to disagree with Barth's wholesale rejection of natural theology but transform this overly theologized insight into a practical claim regarding the inefficacy of modern Catholic appeal to the classical Western metaphysical and moral tradition in today's secular culture.