Sentences with phrase «own vision of the good life»

These it takes as the conditions for nurturing «qualities of mind and character» (ICC 25) that have enabled and should again serve to enable «generations of men and women to grasp a vision of the good life, a life of responsible citizenship and human decency» (ICC 6).
In A Hobbit Journey, the reader has to plough through 17 pages of a rather diffuse introduction before Dickerson explicitly states the purpose of his book, and even then it is somewhat vague: it will explore the question «What can we learn from hobbits and from their vision of the Good Life, and how does that apply to our own present situation?»
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.
It competes with many other male visions of the good life, and for that reason alone is prone to come in cycles.
«Their vision of the good life isn't the suburbs,» he explains.
Full access to the treasures of wisdom depends on a spare, prophetic simplicity; the power of prophecy draws strength from its vision of the good life.
Brooks misleadingly associates the philosopher's vision of the good life with Homeric heroism (just count how many times Plato tells us Homer was mistaken, and what about).
Presumably, a liberal society is one that does not affirm any vision of the good life, but only affirms each individual's right to seek his or her vision of the good life.
If visions of the good life are to have any effect on the actual quality of life, they must find their way into this system of organizations.
In this social - butterfly - turned - spiritual - dynamo, I saw a woman who was both faithful and free, one whose vision of the good life felt expansive enough to accommodate my boldest desires.
Liberalism worked well in contexts where consensus already existed, where a rich moral vocabulary or vision of the good life was deeply embedded; but in a society with Berlin's negative conception of freedom at its center, there is no binding vision.
The real myth, in other words, may be that there can be religious freedom at all in the modern state without a strong religious tradition acting both as a curb to the state's power on behalf of believers and nonbelievers alike and also as an alternative narrative within which people can work out their individual visions of the good life.
To measure our values and stretch our consciences by the challenge of inclusive generativity is to be faithful to the biblical vision of the good life.
One couple's vision of a better life has turned into the ultimate small - town restaurant — proof that, in fact, you can go home again.
This is incompatible with a strong liberal stance aiming at enabling every individual to develop their own vision of the good life, including on gender matters.
What ever happens after the next election, Labour needs to develop a strategy to radically de-bureaucratize the welfare state, so that every citizen can construct their own vision of the good life, and people don't feel subordinated to paternalist bureaucracies.
Operational costs remain high for this kind of work and it is always our goal to aid volunteers and the selfless workers across the country who share our vision of bettering the lives of animals.
From our beginning, we've felt called to show gratitude and support for those who share our common vision of bettering the lives of small animals.
With limited access to the stuff of wealth, Nyambura's vision of a better life seemed a fitting illusion.
Looking around your friends, you will probably quickly spot a range of ways people seek to pursue their vision of the good life.
Dr. Martin Seligman and Dr. Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi (2000) state that the purpose of positive psychology as to «articulate a vision of the good life that is empirically sound while being understandable and attractive.»

Not exact matches

Perhaps it's not a bad idea to take the holiday season an occasion to formally and fully switch off, but the best use of the time, if Rosen is to be believed, is to think deeply about how you want to live, your priorities, and how you can draw up strategies (or boundaries) to help you achieve that vision in the coming year.
Plus, we've created an Instagram collage that shows glimpses of the film and our vision, as well as Facebook Live Photo and video ads targeted at the talent we want to find.
Smart people have well - developed life strategies that include writing of goals, visions, desires and dreams they want to achieve.
If you have a bigger vision for your life, and you have the desire to make your dreams — and the dreams of others — a reality, then selling a business may very well be an important step onto reaching your big goals.
You started this business with a clear vision of how it would make your life better.
As a team, they represent a strong and cohesive board, linked together by shared beliefs and the BiiCast vision of changing lives for the better on both sides of the coin.
«Waymo holds today's best self - driving technology, and collaborating with them will accelerate our shared vision of improving lives with the world's best transportation,» a spokeswoman for Lyft said to the New York Times.
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My vision is for «Discover Your True North» to build a new generation of authentic leaders who can make this world a better place to live for all people.
They fought on the Maidan and now fight in the east for a dignified life and for the integrity of their country as a society united by a shared vision of the common good, not by blood or language or religion.
2) «Over the course of evolutionary history, snakes have lost legs, cavefish have lost vision, and parasitic bacterium have lost the ability to live independently in the wild, all in an effort to become better adapted to their environments.»
Indeed, as post-modernity decomposes into ever more bizarre forms of irrationality, the cleansing, liberating truth of the gospel and the vision of life well lived found in the Beatitudes ought to be a compelling offer.
I know many who have been made into quasi-libertarian radical federalists by this narrative — after all, if we lower the stakes, surely the fights will grow less vicious — others, including MacIntyre himself, recommend the founding of autonomous communities with a shared vision of what a good life entails.
Another congregation in our study lived out this vision of neighboring well by taking on a different local struggle in southern California: neighbors navigating the US immigration system.
A review of Kierkegaard's treatment of the temporal «moment of vision» or «instant» (Augenblick) in this work is probably the best insulation against supposing too quickly that what Heidegger means to bring out about Dasein by insisting that in each case we «are» it is the simple subjective immediacy of psychic life.
The First Letter of Peter perhaps best exemplifies such an exilic ecclesiology, although certainly Paul's letters and Jesus» life point to similar visions of the church's mission.
Only such communities can embody for the broader culture the large, capacious vision of the good made possible by moral restraint and traditional ways of life — the vast and beautiful «yes» for the sake of which an occasional narrow or stern «no» is required.
In The Philosopher's Pupil (1983) a man's life is changed by his vision of a flying saucer; a key episode in The Good Apprentice turns on what appears to be the effects of a love potion; a young girl in The Green Knight exerts an involuntary telekinesis over the stones that she has collected in her room; in the same novel the goodness of a man named Peter Mir (Mir meaning, in Russian, both «world» and «peace,» as several characters note) seems to be contagious, bringing sweet dreams and love to those with whom he comes in contact.
Beside preaching, explicit instruction in prayer by the pastoral leader best acquaints parishioners with the master vision of the life of the congregation as a corporate journey toward maturing in the Christian life.
But as Plato wrote so long ago, the vision of the good does not exempt us from life in the cave.
I agree with you that our society does seem to recognise «deep down... that family life is good, beautiful and true» and it is certainly my experience that «there is something special and uncompromising about the Catholic vision of the family».
It made at best for an incomplete vision of the Christian life, at worst for a radically distorted one.
The vision of a congregation maturing in the Christian life offers the best chance I see of clergy being delivered from the impossibly hectic and forever unfinished round to which the profession now threatens to condemn every pastoral leader except those few who have large staffs.
His vision is to make the capital city of Jakarta a better place for all Indonesians to live.
I do not believe there is any theme more central to Lewis's vision of human life in relation to God, and I think there are very few indeed who have managed as well as he to invoke simultaneously in readers both an appreciation for and delight in our created life, and a sense of the pain and anguish that come when that life is fully redirected to the One from whom it comes.
As Cobb puts it, God doesn't «assure the success of the good in the world,» but «the vision of God nevertheless guarantees the worthwhileness of present life whatever may be its temporal outcome.
Your faith may well be an undying principle of conjuring desires but your rumors of the messiah returning will not lift up our civilizations desires to be on our own wanton ways for living our generational based afflictions in mindful aspirations without any godly influences derailing our commonwealths» visions.
By choosing to blend our vision with God's, to attend to God's direction of our life experience, we can condition ourselves and our environment to move more easily into the kinds of experiences that God sees are best for us all.
But such political judgment need not be translated into the view that there is no such thing as «the good life,» or that we are not ourselves to seek it and seek through a variety of institutional (though non-governmental) mechanisms to encourage and inculcate that moral and religious vision.
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