Sentences with phrase «great moral traditions»

While asking the child to take the perspective of another who would be hurt by a harmful act, a teacher could draw the student's attention to the great moral traditions that have proclaimed the importance of doing so, connecting the student's personal sentiments with the earlier wisdom of civilizations.

To say that nothing whatever has come out of that discussion is to make nonsense out of all the great moral traditions — Stoic, Buddhist, humanistic, or democratic, as well as Christian.

Not exact matches

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.

By contrast to Europe's denial of its religious and moral foundations, Asia's great religious traditions, especially the mystical component expressed in Buddhism, have been elevated as spiritual powers.

And if moral education is first and foremost an immersion in a particular comprehensive social tradition, then we ought to pay a great deal of attention to what concepts and practices we admit into our traditions, and which ones we deliberately weed out to the best of our ability.

For the great majority of Americans, moral discourse — beliefs about right and wrong, good and evil — is shaped and carried by the biblical tradition.

I have always been drawn to Alasdair MacIntyre's prediction that we need «a new, doubtless very different Saint Benedict» that enables the great Christian tradition to be passed on, preserving the seeds for a new civilization to emerge after the moral poverty of today's liberalism leads us into dark, chaotic valleys.

the shift has been away from Freudian, Rogerian and Nietzschean values, especially individualistic selfactualization and narcissistic self - expression, and toward engendering durable habits of moral excellence and covenant community; methodologically away from modern culture - bound individuated experience and toward the shared public texts of Scripture and ecumenical tradition; politically away from trust in regulatory power and rationalistic planning to historical reasoning and a relatively greater critical trust in the responsible free interplay of interests in the marketplace of goods and ideas.

Still, Oakeshott's fundamental insight about Rationalism is of great importance for all of us who wish to cultivate, or resuscitate, as the case may be, an intellectual or moral tradition.

The great monotheistic traditions of the West are the major sources of Western moral and political attitudes.

In order to do justice to the idea of a divine Torah, it does not even suffice to say that the Hebrew Torah has a greater extension than what we call a moral commandment and that it is applied to the whole legislative system that the Old Testament tradition connected with Moses.

And one of the marks of a healthy conscience is an awareness of one's own limitations, a desire to test one's beliefs in a larger arena, to draw from the best that a religious tradition has to offer, to feel that one is not isolated and alone in the face of great moral perplexities.

One of the marks of a healthy conscience is an awareness of one's own limitations, a desire to test one's beliefs in a larger arena, to draw from the best that a religious tradition has to offer, to feel that one is not isolated and alone in the face of great moral perplexities.

The whole world may come to participate more or less imperfectly in the universal mission of Christ and the Church: the Eastern Orthodox churches, Protestant ecclesial communities, the Jewish people, Islamic monotheism, the great world religious traditions that are not always explicitly monotheistic, and even secularists through the workings of the moral conscience by which human beings are led to seek the true and the good.

More than any explicit reference to the kingdom come, Dreher refers throughout the book to Russell Kirk's «permanent things» — «those eternal moral norms necessary to civilized life and which are taught by all the world's great wisdom traditions.»

He begins the story with a description of the social setting and of the great traditions of Greece, Rome and Israel expressed in it, then looks at early Jesus group morals within that setting.

We can certainly point to great figures in varied religious traditions who exhibit some common moral and spiritual qualities.

James contains a great many moral maxims, though it must be remembered that he has a doctrine of grace as well: God «yearns jealously over the spirit which he has made to dwell in us» (4:5) from some apocryphal tradition).

Our party has a great tradition of social reform but we have sometimes hid our light under a bushel and allowed Labour to claim a monopoly of the moral high ground.

an extra step — backward through the ages of moral tradition — linking what Hunter takes to be a mere touchy - feely sentiment to one of the great moral maxims of all time: the Golden Rule.

A primary way that schools can provide students with this kind of guidance is to teach them the great traditions that have endowed us with our moral standards.

ACARA is reviewing the report on the Australian national curriculum finalised last year that recommends a greater focus on moral and spiritual beliefs, especially Australia's Judeo - Christian heritage and traditions.

Because movement conservatives of that time such as William F. Buckley Jr., and Barry Goldwater didn't view state - sanctioned racism as the great moral question that it was, because their fetish for preserving tradition led them to believe that the federal government didn't have the obligation to address segregation, because of their concerns about communism and the expansion of federal government, and because they viewed the civil disobedience by activists such as Martin Luther King (as well as their push to force social change) as an affront to the order they craved, they essentially gave succor to Jim Crow segregationists even if that wasn't their original intent.

We have the great religious traditions, which used to inform our moral choices.