Sentences with phrase «of social virtue»

Since time immemorial, etiquette has been used to establish the principles of social virtue, as well as the rules, symbols, and rituals of civilized life.

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.

Not exact matches

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«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

Unfortunately, fear of death, no matter how effective as a tool for social engineering, is not the proper moral grounds for virtue...

Politically, it's a dream of social justice without virtue.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

Religion is a very good thing for social cohesion and the cultivation of virtues, but the benefits can not be separated from commitment to the transcendent.

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.

From the earliest weeks of life, when an infant is taught to control hunger in order to meet the sleeping needs of parents and to fit into a social pattern in which people do not eat during the night; through babyhood, where etiquette skills include learning conventional greetings such as morning kisses and waving bye - bye; to toddler training in such concepts as sharing toys with a guest, refraining from hitting, and expressing gratitude for presents, manners are used to establish a basis for other virtues.

Throughout most of recorded history, theologians and philosophers have extolled propriety and correct social behavior as virtues akin to morality.

But I would contend that obeisance to etiquette, far from being a weak and optional virtue, much less a sin, is the oldest social virtue, and an indispensable partner of morality.

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.

to ihaftr, thats why we have to make a paradigm shift in our concept of Who is God from dualism, meaning He is separate from us to Holism, one with Him, This is very significant this shift for it will have a profound effect on the development of our concsience, Social responsibility and even altruism will be high virtue in this level of consciousness.

The deists feared that the lack of connection between virtue and reward in this life would lead to social chaos if there were no conviction that justice would be executed after death.

In this case, morality is reconstituted not in terms of virtues and a vision of the good life, but in terms of the minimal demands of justice necessary for some measure of social tranquillity.

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.

Their ultimate goal, the kingdom of God, is after all a society, and their supreme moral principle, love, is a decidedly social virtue.

When you're part of a real class, your social and political influence is acquired in virtue of who you are, independently of anything you happen to do.

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.

This ideology which is present in mass media by virtue of their nature and social organization then shapes how they represent social reality through processes of selection and reinterpretation.

That collective emphasis, that understanding of man as fundamentally social, was derived from the classical conception of the polis as responsible for the education and the virtue of its citizens, from the Old Testament notion of the Covenant between God and a people held collectively responsible for its actions, and from the New Testament notion of a community based on charity or love and expressed in brotherly affection and fellow membership in one common body.

I feel that more emphasis in Pastoralships should be preached on the New Testament's virtues and most righteous admonitions for positive» sakes so that our socialisms and culturisms do not flutter away and become likened into nothing worthy of proclamations be they from social mountaintops or cultural valleys we all do traverse.

The broader purpose of Ashcraft's study is to demonstrate by example the virtue of taking political and religious ideology out of the realm of abstract philosophical discussion and considering it «in relation to a socially defined audience whose members seek to obtain certain practical advantages through social action.

The virtue of Zaret's approach is that it demonstrates the relevance of broad social conditions as effects on religious ideas, but instead of pinning these effects on hidden psychological states or vague generalities about interests and legitimation, it traces the factors actually involved in the specific contexts in which ideas were produced, modified, and disseminated.

For a republic, and especially for its democratic rather than aristocratic form, the principle of social life is virtue, which James Sellers has recently paraphrased in more modern language as «willed initiative.»

On the one hand, the media shape social understanding and expression by virtue of their nature and organization.

Indeed, the new virtues of personal freedom and human equality being promoted by the Enlightenment led to the French Revolution, followed by much social change and radically new thought in Europe in the 19th century.

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

In a Guardian article on November 3rd the prominent Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan wrote concerning the «debate between faith and reason, and over the virtues of rationalism»: «The Pope's remarks at Regensburg have opened up new areas of inquiry that must be explored and exploited in a positive way, with a view to building bridges and, working hand in hand, to seeking a common response to the social, cultural and economic challenges of our day.»

Bonhoeffer answers: «The individual personal spirit lives solely by virtue of sociality, and the «social spirit» becomes real only in individual embodiment.10 Therefore Bonhoeffer can speak of both the individual and a collective being.11 The design of God for men to live in community leads to the natural question of the religious community.

The harmonization of activity in virtue of shared values and common goals marks the emergence of institutions — ephemeral ones such as social cliques and pressure groups, enduring ones such as churches and empires.

... the most important social task of Christians is to be nothing less than a community capable of forming people with virtues sufficient to witness to God's truth in the world.

Wallace also wrote without having seen the full impact of social media, where the most enviable virtue is to be ahead of the game.

The virtue of social justice allows for people of good will to reach different — even opposing — practical judgments about the material content of the common good (ends) and how to get there (means).

Social justice is a virtue, an attribute of individuals, or it is a fraud.

Our schools praise the virtues of Martin Luther King, Jr.'s ethics of social inlcusion, but apparently very few of us understand how these ethics are rooted in spirituality.

Hayek goes to the heart of the matter: social justice is either a virtue or it is not.

Aristotle provided MacIntyre with an account of why our actions require a conception of an end as well as the social and political conditions necessary to sustain a life formed by the virtues constitutive of that end that is simply lacking in modern moral practice and theory.

The incoming immigrants, some from other parts of the United States, others from Sweden, Germany, and elsewhere, built «an archipelago of Christian churches on the Dakota prairie that deepened community ties, inculcated social virtue, and generally promoted social order.»

And if Tocqueville is right that «the principle of association is the first law of democracy,» then social justice is the first virtue of democracy, for it is the habit of putting the principle of association into daily practice.

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.

They use «social justice» to denote a regulative principle of order; again, their focus is not virtue but power.

One happy characteristic of this definition of the virtue of social justice is that it is ideologically neutral.

We must rule out any use of «social justice» that does not attach to the habits (that is, virtues) of individuals.

In Jesus» teaching, the last who shall be first are people who, by virtue of life circumstance, have very little social or spiritual status according to traditional religious practice — women, children, and eunuchs.

The utilitarianism of an individualistic period, which promised men that through faith they might gain the economic virtues and wealth, differs from the pragmatism of our social climate of opinion, in which religion is used as a means for gaining social order and prosperity; but they are both utilitarian and equally remote from the love of God for his own sake and of the individual or social neighbor in his relation to God.

Even though theology as a whole has not gone to these Hegelian lengths, from the very beginnings of Christian theology there has been a kind of social contract between philosophy and theology in virtue of their common concern for truth, and a very close association indeed between the Catholic traditions of theology and metaphysics.

From passive to active membership growth: Mainline Protestants no longer have a «guaranteed market share» by virtue of their history, tradition, location and place in the social network.

For Whitehead, every kind of «society» has its ground of unity in its «defining characteristic,» that is, in a formal element common to all its «members» and in virtue of which there is a generally dominant «social order.»