They represent the finest
of human virtues, the ones needed to be preserved for all humanity.
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.
If the family really is the domestic church and parents the primary educators and protectors of their children, then we must be more creative in promoting and supporting them as the first and best of teachers in the home, the school
of human virtues.
«Independence is the only gauge
of human virtue and value.
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.
His fictional testimony to the power
of human virtue and solidarity...
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.
Not exact matches
The
human cost
of Australia's offshore detention centres, where freedom does not equal opportunity America is obsessed with the
virtue of work.
Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application
of natural law to our situation requires the
virtue of prudence, a mastery
of the details
of our circumstances (such as is possible for a
human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).
In
human society this aspiration is expressed by a desire to find significances and uses for things which otherwise have none, assigning meaning to things by
virtue of their affinity to other things or personalities available in the natural world.
And Socrates» paradoxical statement in Plato's Apology that «not out
of money does
virtue arise, but out
of virtue money and all other goods for
human beings, both private and public» - a passage that has given modern scholars fits for generations - underscores the self - sufficiency
of the virtuous individual.
The author, professor
of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job
of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles
of human action, the determination
of the moral good, and the connection between
virtues, gifts
of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.
Or consider the Church's loss without Thomas Aquinas» magisterial treatment
of human acts and habits,
virtue and vice, desire and chastity, law and grace, comprising the entire second part
of his Summa Theologiae.
It is another sign
of the miraculous
virtue of the Gospels to fold so much psychological depth and moral and spiritual truth into seemingly simple and natural
human encounters.
Nevertheless, by
virtue of our collective
human powers — our capacity for complex symbolic thinking, the sophistication
of our tools, our ability to steward nature, and our demonstrated interest in telling both nature's story and our own —
human beings also transcend nature.
Pride being the hatefullest
of the
virtues, the
human spirit now turns away from this certain - sure morality, though it has nothing else in particular to turn to.
Rather, specifically
human existence is, in Whitehead's term, a «personal society,» i.e., a temporal sequence
of occasions which share, by
virtue of inheritance from the earlier to the later, a defining characteristic that makes the man or woman in question just this individual and not some other.
I use «public world» to mean the world that is constituted by
human communication, i.e., the world shared by
virtue of the relation (s)
of one or more
human individuals to one or more other
human individuals.
It states that her «immunity from the effects
of Original Sin» was «by
virtue of the merits
of Jesus Christ, Saviour
of the
human race».
He defends, against the Neoplatonists, the Christian understanding
of human nature as intrinsically open to sociability such that the life
of virtue should be a social life.
Nonetheless,
human beings are naturally religious when by that we mean that they possess, by
virtue of their given ontological being, a complex set
of innate features, capacities, powers, limitations, and tendencies that give them the capacity to think, perceive, feel, imagine, desire, and act religiously and that under the right conditions tend to predispose and direct them toward religion.
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.
The Qur» an makes it clear in many passages that Angels possess all the spiritual
virtues and none
of the shortcomings
of human beings, while the Jinn are described as sometimes being whisperers and provocators — evils which are sometimes found in men.
These understandings are what
humans take for granted by
virtue of being socialized into a particular imaginary.
This was the Incarnation: Et Verbum caro factum est. 20 And from this first, basic contact
of God with our
human race, and precisely by
virtue of this penetration
of the divine into our
human nature, a new life was born: that unforeseeable aggrandizement and «obediential ’21 extension
of our natural capacities which we call «grace».
-LSB-...] charity is placed as a key link: divine charity works through
human action, as a theological
virtue -LSB-...] Man is not considered only as the object
of a process, but as the subject
of this process.
It corresponds to the deepest stirrings
of the
human heart and offers guidance for genuine growth in holiness and
virtue.
Temperance, then, is the
virtue by which we keep each
of these passions in its proper place, so that it works for our overall
human growth and leads to our fulfilment.
Thereby the living power
of the transcendent and omnipotent Judge is transposed in
human experience into the dead body
of Satan, as Milton's passage through the death
of selfhood unveils the ground
of an isolated selfhood as that chasm separating the creature from the Creator, thus making possible the reversal or dissolution
of natural
virtue and self - righteousness in the immediate and present actualization
of the self - annihilation
of God.
Our task today is to clearly unpack the nature and
virtues of minimal government, now forever wed to the notion
of securing rights, without slipping into a anthropological minimalism that radically liberates the abstract
human individual at the price
of devaluing the complete
human person.
The eternal Son
of God has truly suffered and died, but he has done so by
virtue of his
human nature (suffering in both body and soul).
«God should be detectable by scientific means simply by
virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation
of the universe and the lives
of humans.»
That said, the case has been made that if the Christian god exists, then «God should be detectable by scientific means simply by
virtue of the fact that he is supposed to play such a central role in the operation
of the universe and the lives
of humans», with the conclusion that» [e] xisting scientific models contain no place where God is included as an ingredient in order to describe observations.»
Again and again such thoughtful writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Bellah tell us that moral rectitude, fundamental truthfulness, and all
of the other
virtues and skills that make us
human depend upon society: upon our....
Rather, the embryo is
human merely by
virtue of this physical and spiritual substance created by the union
of sperm and egg (or at least by
virtue of its purported ability to survive physically outside the womb)
Again and again such thoughtful writers as Alasdair MacIntyre and Robert Bellah tell us that moral rectitude, fundamental truthfulness, and all
of the other
virtues and skills that make us
human depend upon society: upon our having a lifelong place within a social order and contemplating the historical «narrative» that defines the social order.
If
humans deserve our moral regard by
virtue of their possession
of these qualities, would not other animals deserve similar consideration?
Rather, we make decisions on the basis
of beliefs about what sorts
of virtues seem important, what sort
of human life we believe to be good.
It is interesting that Stephen Law actually denies that
human beings, just by
virtue of being
human, have any unique dignity.
Though both the conception
of human liberty and the
virtues necessary to its true exercise sprang from biblical teachings, the framers were careful not to endow biblical religion, or any religion, with state power.
One
of the many
virtues of Larsen's study is its revealing
of the «all too
human» character
of the scholarship
of the anthropologists he examines.
In this sense a process hermeneutic will be more fully «secular» than the new hermeneutic, since it will recognize that all beings, in all times and places, who can in the full sense be named
human persons, are — simply by
virtue of their humanity — capable
of grasping (and being grasped by) the message
of the text.
We have moved from a place in which
human rights have been guaranteed by
virtue of some understanding
of transcendent derivation, to a dispensation in which even the most fundamental rights are to be regarded as existing at the whim
of the electorate.
The defect in this confidence in individual conversion is that it obscures the dual and social character
of human selves and the individual and social character
of their
virtues and vices.
Its systematic unity is provided by the trinitarian perspective: from the beginning, the creation was intended for «inclusion» in the triune community by
virtue of union with Christ, the purpose being a «perfected
human community.»
The position taken in this book is that such a democracy is inherently self - defeating, in part because the unrestrained pursuit
of satisfaction tends to breed conflict rather than harmony, but more importantly because
human nature is such that persons and cultures do not grow in beauty, strength, and
virtue when people strive only to get what they want.
A story sustains the precariousness and openness
of the situation until it reaches its end, and does so by
virtue of that power
of imagination, or what I called memory that penetrates the future, to envisage a stretch
of time as both sequentially related and also developing through
human opportunity, intention, decision, and being acted upon.
By «God» I mean the pervasive personal presence, distinct from me and prior to me, who is the source and support
of my existence; who through Scripture makes me realize that he has towards me the nature and name
of love - holy, lordly, costly, fatherly, redeeming love; who addresses me, really though indirectly, in all that Scripture shows
of his relationship to
human beings in history, and especially in the recorded utterances
of his Son, Jesus Christ; and who is daily drawing me towards a face - to - face encounter and consummated communion with him beyond this life, by
virtue of «the redemption which is in Christ Jesus» (Rom.
«5 The full account
of the
human ousia in De Anima and in the Nichomachean Ethics is a dynamic one, in which the rationality
of the agent shapes, by
virtue of his choices and his actions, his own coming - to - be.
First, he seemed to assume too quickly the
virtue of the capitalistic system and one
of its foundational presuppositions the goodness
of private property - over against the Marxist contention that money is one objectivation
of human alienation.