Sentences with phrase «greater human virtues»

When you critique a movie you are obviously doing so as a sensitive, thoughtful human being on behalf and in defence of greater human virtues — and you love a good, dirty joke if no - one is being debased or humiliated.

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Some societies may not have high sense of selfhood and the right of self - determination, but may show a great measure of social virtues; and others may have high sense of self and its freedom but may show greater perversity in human relations.

But that social life can become a life beyond the ways of (human) judgment only by virtue of a greater rule and nourishment:

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

It is one of the virtues of Quint's book (another is the generosity of critical annotation, amounting almost to a mini variorum edition) that Paradise Lost's still center is given a density so great that reading the poem becomes itself a heroic act; an act difficult to perform, but in its difficulty providing an experience few (if any) efforts of the human imagination are capable of provoking.

With great emphasis he reminded all human beings of their brotherly love, their common origin, their equality without distinction except by means of virtue.

He argued: Where is the absurdity, then, in holding that there exist among men, so to speak, two extremes — the one of virtue, and the other of its opposite; so that the perfection of virtue dwells in the man who realizes the ideal given in Jesus, from whom there flowed to the human race so great a conversion, and healing, and amelioration, while the opposite extreme is in the man who embodies the notion of him that is named Antichrist?

Because man is the purest and best exemplar of the manifestation of the Great Ultimate, human virtues (at base, sincerity) provide the names for cosmological factors,

By virtue of its very categories, this picture of a final human end would be unacceptable or inconceivable for Buddha or Shankara, the great sage of Vedanta.

Vitamins, scientists learned, existed not only in meat, grains, and dairy products, foods they had always considered vital to nourishment and growth, but also in fruits and vegetables, which had previously been regarded as benign at best and as suspicious by many, although several nineteenth - century groups did espouse the virtues of a vegetarian diet.43 The promotion of fruits and vegetables as vital to human growth and nourishment grew during the Great War.