Sentences with phrase «only benevolence»

the Augustinian God turns out to be remarkably like the Stoic sage: devoid of passions, unfamiliar with longing, foreign to suffering, dwelling in steady bliss, exhibiting to others only benevolence.

It is worth mentioning this in light of the tendency of some well - meaning Christians, sincerely committed to improving the Christian relationship with Judaism, to assume that all malevolent obstacles to that improvement come from the Christian side and that from the Jewish side flows only benevolence.

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Adam Smith wrote: «But man has almost constant occasion for the help of his brethren, and it is in vain for him to expect it from their benevolence only.»

In the monarchical model, God is distant from the world, relates only to the human world, and controls that world through domination and benevolence.

Even so, Marcion clearly tried to lift up a God of sublime benevolence for the alternative church he founded, but he was able to do so only by sacrificing the essential unity between love (his Supreme God) and power (his unloving Creator God).28

For instance, one may plan sympathetically for the welfare of others long after his death through such actions as making a will or buying life insurance, and he may enjoy these actions; but he does them not just for his own enjoyment but also for the future recipients of the blessings of his benevolence.11 However, Hartshorne maintains that such universally common altruistic actions can only be fully comprehended rationally by appeal to God as superhuman mind who ultimately unites all persons and entities in his infinite awareness and memory.

As Bernard Williams observed, «If it is a mark of a man to have a conceptualized and fully conscious awareness of himself as one among others, aware that others have feelings like himself, this is a precondition not only of benevolence but (as Nietzsche pointed out) of cruelty as well.»

The partner who has only honesty and benevolence without ability can offer only non-economic benefits (also called social benefits), not economic benefits; this leads to difficulties in gaining the full trust of the other party.