Sentences with phrase «human virtues»

They represent the finest of human virtues, the ones needed to be preserved for all humanity.

It was an attempt to realize through communal living the highest human virtues.

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

For classical philosophers law had an educational function; it was set up to structure individual and communal life in order to produce certain human virtues.

Few films in recent times have examined the possibilities of human virtue, elevated beyond the divisions of race, religion and class, with such compelling intelligence.

Based on the worldwide bestseller, DIVERGENT is a thrilling action - adventure set in a future world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues.

According to Diana Baumrind the permissive parenting style is high on «responsiveness», a good human virtue she approved of.

He also said: «We have put our hope in the myth that the summons to generic human virtue with no attention to the peculiar virtues required of manhood and womanhood, would be sufficient to create a beautiful society of mutual respect.

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.

A consideration of this greatest of human virtues begins with the puzzles of psychology, for it seems that courage is inexplicably distributed.

Since all of us are filled with admiration for the achievements of science and since all of us desire to practice and propagate such human virtues as friendliness, tolerance, good humor, sympathy and courage, we unconsciously assent to scientific humanism as a working philosophy of life.

Equanimity is essentially an umbrella for our most coveted human virtues: integrity, honesty, empathy, authenticity, patience, compassion, etc..

«Human virtues perfect man insofar as man is naturally moved by reason in the things that he does within or without,» wrote Aquinas on the Seven Gifts of the Holy Spirit.

These tales display Diogenes» cynicism as both ethical and philosophical: he is remembered for mocking the possibility of finding human virtue and for mocking the possibility of knowing human nature.

Christopher Peterson defines character strengths as the psychological ingredients, processes, or mechanisms that define human virtues.

Civilization is divided into five factions, based on human virtues: Dauntless, Abnegation, Erudite, Amity, and Candor.

I'm not sure that last article helps his cause: St. Thomas is talking there about mercy in humans, not divine mercy, and he says explicitly, following St. Paul, that charity, not mercy, is the highest human virtue (caritas, per quam Deo unitur, est potior quam misericordia, per quam defectus proximorum supplet).

Diana Baumrind considered these good human virtues that are vital in having a healthy child parent relationship.

His fictional testimony to the power of human virtue and solidarity is rendered especially poignant by Cheever's recent death from cancer at age 69.

The beasts receive their doom, and pass from the scene: the powers of evil are overthrown, not by any human virtue or strength, but by the presence and power of the living God.

If production is understood in this fully human and fully virtuous way, then industrial production appears as a triumph of the human virtues of cooperation, trust and intelligence.

Forgiveness is a human virtue, not an exclusively religious one.

His fictional testimony to the power of human virtue and solidarity...

There is no reason to deny that human virtues are genuine goods in God's sight as well as man's.

Human virtues and interactions are fragile, but for followers of Christ they are located in a divine economy that is sturdy.

It debunks every human virtue which falls short of the humility of love.

In his case it is the nobility, but also the fragility, of the republican ideal; the notion that human virtue, however compromised, might truly establish a polity of freedom; and that a polity of freedom, however human, might truly encourage virtue.

This is a man who possesses all human virtues.

Shailene Woodley delivers an exciting performance in the thrilling action - adventure, «Divergent,» set in a futuristic world where people are divided into distinct factions based on human virtues.

But a third act, abruptly shaped as a revenge thriller, forgoes these human virtues for heightened genre exhilaration.

Procrastination is a human virtue and most people deal with dental problems when they happen as opposed to taking steps to prevent them.