Sentences with phrase «developing human virtues»

Both place great emphasis on developing human virtues, or strength of character, because these virtues enable a person to be truly free.

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A story sustains the precariousness and openness of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by virtue of that power of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch of time as both sequentially related and also developing through human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.

Hauerwas» pacifism, in my view, is pivotal in his response to modernism and the concomitant capacity of humans to commit omnicide; it is crucial to how he develops an ethics of character and virtue, the Christian story, and the relationship between the church and the world.

Building on this convergence between reason and revelation, such thinkers as Aquinas developed an elaborate virtue ethics to outline what further perfections are possible and desirable for human nature, especially under the aid of grace.

It is not properly applied to animals or machines since it is a human quality, a moral virtue, that a person may have or lack, may have in a high or low degree, may develop or may lose.

We've been able to bridge those findings to human studies, developing ways to both look for those neurons in the retina, see whether or not they're sick using imaging techniques that Alf and Vivek have developed, and clinical tests along with Jeff Goldberg in order to detect whether or not patients are losing an excessive amount of those kinds of neurons by virtue of different types of field testing.