Sentences with phrase «of civic virtues»

The result is that there is a real understanding of civic virtues in all academy students.

No catalog of civic virtues can be shown to be a prerequisite of academic excellence, a part of such excellence, or its product.

It seeks to develop the kinds of civic virtues and skills that can empower all citizens and, through them our social institutions, to play leading roles in the transition to sustainability.

«Piety,» writes Dodaro, «is the pinnacle of all civic virtues.»

It is a sad paradox that in our society, with its almost unprecedented need for mutual accommodation and the practice of civic virtues, we should be so hesitant about developing the qualities in our children that they will most need if our society is to endure.

Four of the six chapters in Losing Our Virtue constitute the heart of the book and are devoted to themes liberally treated in Wells» first two volumes» materialistic consumption, image and style over substance, the therapeutic culture, the lack of civic virtue, and, not least, society's aversion to truth, truth - telling, guilt, and moral accountability.

Neither Franklin nor Jefferson were averse to extending their property, though the latter was aware of the dangers inherent in putting money - making ahead of civic virtue.

Augustine was formed in this same world, and he begins his response by appealing to the Roman understanding of civic virtue as presented by Cicero in his treatise De Re Publica, a work both he and Volusian knew well.

To the extent that we are committed to the ideal of a secular society free of ecclesiastical influence and governed by toleration, liberty, and a conception of civic virtue; and insofar as we think of true religious piety as consisting in treating other human beings with dignity and respect, and regard the Bible simply as a profound work of human literature with a universal moral message, we are the heirs of Spinoza's scandalous treatise.

As such, the institution of marriage is a foundation of a just political order and the nursery of civic virtue, as spouses exercise mutual responsibility for raising their children.

Just as process - relational thought provides the framework for a new ethics of character and virtue, it also offers the foundation for the usual extension of that ethics in the cultivation of civic virtue.

Promoting a brittle presentmindedness, the idea of progress weakens «the inclination to make intelligent provision for the future, and nostalgia, its ideological twin, undermines the ability to make intelligent use of the past» Distinguishing carefully between nostalgia and an appropriately critical historic memory, Lasch laments the ways in which — driven by progress, even driven a bit mad by it — we can do no better than issue a «communitarian counterpoint» to attempt to right the balance and to retain, at least here and there, smidgens of civic virtue.

There was something of the republican ideal of civic virtue expressed in that conversation on Valdimontone's hilltop perch — a glimpse of a level of Italian political functioning that rarely comes across in news media obsessed with the theatrics of Berlusconi - era national politics.

It is true that republicans also stress that for these institutions to be non-dominating they must be supplemented by a sense of civic virtue in their citizens.

Second, because only in small, culturally homogeneous populations could the affective basis for republican citizenship — i.e. the strong sense of civic virtue required to re-orient private to public interest — be sustained.

And they reflect the lack of civic virtue which drives the increasing failure of our democratice institutions.

This type of civic virtue combined a disinterested concern for others with calculations of private welfare.

Or do we pray for the day when some brave new State Comptroller or authentic crime - busting Attorney General, devoted to upholding traditional notions of civic virtue and public integrity, jumps into the fray?

In her words, «the basic ties of the family are at the heart of our society and are the nursery of civic virtue».

Civic educators are often quite frank about the need to subordinate not only truth but also academic achievement to the imperatives of civic virtue.

The depiction of civic virtue, honesty, and austerity became common themes of this genre and the severe composition and cold colors reflect the subject matter.This 1786 version was ordered by the Comte de Vaudreuil (depicted in the exhibition in a portrait by Elizabeth - Louise Vigée - Lebrun) and is nearly identical to the original, except that the artist added a staff with a cleft end holding wool near the feet of the women.

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The Court has sent the message that it is unconstitutional for government to offend the religious sensibilities of any American, thereby creating a right not to be offended that makes being thin - skinned a civic and constitutional virtue and thus undermines the virtues necessary to social and religious harmony.

Another vision of democracy; however, sees it not only in terms of its result (private freedoms) but in terms of its foundation upon the virtues known in the classic tradition as «republican» or «civic» virtues.

Next comes the claim that this now - abandoned metaphysical thought is incompatible with democracy and the exercise of civic responsibility and virtue.

And finally there's the claim that religion, though slow to achieve this, is moving inexorably in the same post-metaphysical direction: away from being a contributor to the ordering of the public sphere, and toward being a private comfort that may foster civic virtue.

Patronage of the arts, converted by Protestants from a privilege of the church to a thriving private enterprise, became a means for displaying personal success and civic virtue.

The Constitution could not take for granted that its citizens would all be motivated by civic virtue and so its concern was as much to protect individuals and groups from abuse at the hands of the government and their fellow citizens as it was to involve all its citizens in genuine participation.

The civic vitues of the Protestant work ethic; not the theological virtues of faith, hope and love have become the basis for moral guidance in the American Church (es).

Religion might teach of duties and soften the inherent corruption of leaders and the governed alike, but the founders knew that the virtue of the nation was by no means assured, no matter what religious commitments its civic leaders might have.

He also acknowledges debts to Augustine and especially to Luther, and although he rejects Christianized «Hellenic» conceptions of justice and the state, his program seems to owe much to ancient and modern ideas about civility and civic virtue.

Instead of the Sermon's provision for cases at law, for the exercise of charity, for civic virtue, presupposing if at the same time reinterpreting the requirements of the ancient national code; instead of the Old Testament Law with its provisions for the inheritance of property, for various kinds of civic and social duties, albeit of a primitive order, which the Sermon presupposes, (Matt.

We owe to God both a public service and a private one; one can not slip a knife between civic virtues and the life of devotion and say that one is pleasing to God and the other is not.

The Holy Trinity is God, Church and Country; not Father, Son and Holy Spirit and the civic virtues of the Protestant work ethic have replaced the theological virtues of Faith, Hope and Love.

By understanding the task of voting as a comparative judgment, the affirming voter never thinks of disengagement as an option, and with this attitude manifests the virtue of civic engagement.

This is the virtue of civic engagement.

Sirico's that he quotes, and Sam Gregg, a prize student of John Finnis, prefers to be called a Whig — a descendant of the party of liberty and civic virtue.

It can be understood as social or civic friendship, which is a kind of habit or virtue.

The progress of mankind does not lie in the destruction of national identity and the denial of patriotic pride and devotion — any more than civic virtue would be improved by undermining family loyalties.

Such churches, respecting the difference between church and state yet recognizing the cultural and practical interconnection of civic and religious life, can serve as schools for civic as well as personal virtue, for public - spirited citizens as well as for devout believers.

If Machiavelli seems a decent guide to Christian politics, it is only because Americans are uniquely tempted by the liberal civil religion he touted — a backward, Hobbesian monster of a thing, wherein civic virtue shapes Christian practice instead of vice versa, trading eternal things for temporal ones.

For example, as Mr. Lawler points out, Brownson makes some valuable comments when he emphasizes the importance of the solidarity and interdependence of humans and what naturally follows from that, but it seems to me that Brownson then goes too far in concluding that «civic virtues are themselves religious virtues» and even that «he who dies on the battlefield for his country ranks with him who dies for his faith.»

The openness of the civic culture has depended on the fact that these groups and traditions have functioned as teachers of virtue and morality, sustaining by their various lights a general predisposition toward acting well.

After the Russian invasion of his country, Major - Archbishop Shevchuk has worked tirelessly to inform the world of the truth of Ukraine's plight and to maintain, under extreme pressure, the new Ukraine's commitment to the civic virtues that inspired the Maidan movement in the first place.

Another community - based claim emphasizing republican government and civic virtue has both ancient roots and is of contemporary interest.

To do so means challenging the theory that republicanism, with its seeming dependence on civic virtue, is incompatible with our modern world of competition and commerce.

[4] Scottish social thought, and Adam Smith's political economy in particular, thus appear as: `... a theory of a pluralisation of human personality -LSB-...] presented as an ideological alternative to the classical ideal of the personality unified by civic virtue and by a relatively static economy.»

Additionally, classical and neo-republicans share the central claim that the achievement of freedom and the stability of republican laws and institutions depend on widespread civic virtue on the part of the citizenry.

For him and others in this tradition, it was the civic virtue of citizens that secured the common good.

SCHROON LAKE — A popular fraternal organization has formed a farm team designed to install civic virtues in the next generation of tomorrow's leaders.

While the major focus of the book, and the news in it, is what has happened in Fishtown, Belmont has also changed greatly in 50 years, if not in the four virtues and civic behavior: Belmont, Murray argues, and in particular its higher levels (graduates from more elite colleges), has withdrawn from contact with the rest of American society.