Sentences with phrase «most ancient moral»
His «anti-life» budget, they wrote, ignores the «most ancient moral teachings» of the Catholic Church on the duty of the powerful to care for the powerless.
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they have forsaken Yahweh, they have despised the Holy One of Israel,» (Isaiah 1:4) and then he uttered one of the most solemn and moving denunciations of moral wrong and one of the most momentous pleas for social justice in ancient literature.
They were the most notable series of ethical teachers in the ancient world and the fountainhead of the noblest moral qualities in the Hebrew faith, but the great prophetic writers were comprehended within four centuries, and not only the legal but the sacrificial system preceded, underlay, and outlived them all.
Although the complex moral ability called courage, highly honored by the ancients and ignored by most non-existentialist modern philosophers, is not directly named by Whitehead, it is directly implicated throughout his works in discussions of tragedy and heroism.
«I am convinced,» he wrote, «that every deep or delicate treatment of the magical theme, from the lightest jingle of Peacock Pie... to the most profound shaking of the phenomenal world... will always be found to imply an indirect relation to the ancient blessing and cursing; and it is almost as vital that it should be moral as that it should not be moralizing.»