Sentences with phrase «earlier as virtues»

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The philosophy of stoicism, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in the early 3rd century BC, asserts that virtues (such as wisdom) should be based on behavior, rather than words.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

From the earliest weeks of life, when an infant is taught to control hunger in order to meet the sleeping needs of parents and to fit into a social pattern in which people do not eat during the night; through babyhood, where etiquette skills include learning conventional greetings such as morning kisses and waving bye - bye; to toddler training in such concepts as sharing toys with a guest, refraining from hitting, and expressing gratitude for presents, manners are used to establish a basis for other virtues.

Do these early texts, and does Christianity as a religion, contain an appreciation for humankind's highest virtues and most noble ideals?»

Whereas earlier theology spoke of God as Goodness as such, whose every act (by virtue of divine simplicity) expresses His nature, the spectre that haunts late Scholastic thought is a God whose will precedes His nature, and whose acts then are feats of pure spontaneity.

Given his early Marxism as well as the influence of Collingwood and Wittgenstein, it should not be surprising that MacIntyre grew to find in Aristotle's account of the virtues and practical reason an understanding of the conditions necessary for our actions to be intelligible.

(Exodus 20:5) Reward and retribution, therefore, were to the early Hebrews not individual but social phenomena, and only upon this basis could the doctrine of happiness as always reward for virtue and trouble as always punishment for sin have rested so securely and so long.

Confucians earlier than Wang noted that a sage - king could order the state by encouraging people to imitate his own virtue; but this is not the same as causing the people to be virtuous by the will that knows them.

Now these characteristic theological emphases were of great importance for the preservation and formulation of the gospel tradition, even prior to its incorporation in the earliest written Gospel, that of Mark, The whole conception of Jesus» earthly ministry is influenced by them: «Jesus is the Savior, but only as combining in himself the office of a Jewish teacher and that of the hidden Son of Man, by virtue of which twofold office he is able by word and deed to bring men to the «gate» of the Kingdom of God.

In the early Christian exercises aiming to instill virtues such as peace of mind and absence of the passions, and in the tradition of contemplative monasticism as developed by such fourth «century Church fathers as Basil of Caesarea, Gregory of Nyssa, and Gregory Nazianzen, Hadot detects a strong whiff of Greek philosophical practice.

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.

The Bianconeri are four points clear at the top of Serie A right now, so seeing them put to the sword so devastatingly was a disappointing sight for those who believe in the virtues of calcio, especially as it came on the back of Milan's aggregate 5 - 1 hammering against Arsenal and Napoli's partially surprisingly early Europa League elimination.

They can bring home an income and be wonderful caregivers for their kids, but the message I was trying convey to you is that since we learn gender roles early on, it is to no surprise why as young boys, one would learn values that are geared more towards homeward stability and success, rather than other virtues, i.e. dependent behavior.

As early as the second month of the Obama presidency, an anti-Obama conservative grassroots movement was established called the Tea Party (firstly an allusion to the Boston Tea Party, which has long been used by anti-tax libertarians and conservatives to celebrate the virtues of non-interference and small government; and secondly an acronym for «Taxed Enough Already» PartyAs early as the second month of the Obama presidency, an anti-Obama conservative grassroots movement was established called the Tea Party (firstly an allusion to the Boston Tea Party, which has long been used by anti-tax libertarians and conservatives to celebrate the virtues of non-interference and small government; and secondly an acronym for «Taxed Enough Already» Partyas the second month of the Obama presidency, an anti-Obama conservative grassroots movement was established called the Tea Party (firstly an allusion to the Boston Tea Party, which has long been used by anti-tax libertarians and conservatives to celebrate the virtues of non-interference and small government; and secondly an acronym for «Taxed Enough Already» Party).

Country royalty has weighed in on the presidential race — Hank Williams Jr. (known to the kids as the «Are You Ready for Some Football» guy) released a song earlier this week praising the virtues of the current Republican ticket.

As Jessica Kimpell has charted in her earlier article in this debate, this was the period of tension between virtue and commerce, between republican language and political economic language [3].

Steve Greenberg, spokesman for New York's Siena Poll and a veteran Democratic operative, said that it's incredibly early in the presidential process, and that there's as much virtue in being a tortoise as a hare.

Saunders explained the earlier implications of an outright ban as a virtue of Twitter.

During the early 1950s, Richard Diebenkorn was known as an abstract expressionist, and his gestural abstractions were close to the New York School in sensibility but firmly based in the San Francisco abstract expressionist sensibility; a place where Clyfford Still has a considerable influence on younger artists by virtue of his teaching at the San Francisco Art Institute.

In earlier decades, as will undoubtably be the case now, a great deal was written about Soto (1923 > 2005), and, throughout his lifetime he was passionately vociferous in extolling and defending the virtues of kinetic art in numerous and insightful press interviews and letters.

Many children as early as three or four years of age can begin to relate individual virtues to their actions.