These abstract painters had arrived at the unknown somewhat in the spirit of abnegation, but they conferred on their renunciation of the past,
positive values of freedom and spontaneity.
Not exact matches
It might well be that God could not — that the creation
of truly free entities was the only way God could create the potential for the
positive values related to
freedom without negating God's own integrity and destroying the dignity and true worth
of the moral agents in question (RS 500 - 02).
Because the capacity for realizing
positive values and the capacity for
freedom or self - determination are correlative, rising in proportion with each other, creatures capable
of the kinds
of values we can enjoy are necessarily creatures with a very dangerous level
of freedom.
Secularism is an important
value (one
of the most important IMHO) but I don't see the court using is unless 1) the exercise
of one persons religious
freedom impinges another persons charter rights or 2) the state is refusing to provide a
positive accomodation but isn't actively restricting religious observance.