Sentences with phrase «practice of virtue»

The ancient claim that man is by nature a political animal and must in and through the exercise and practice of virtue learned in communities achieve a form of local and communal self - limitation — a condition properly understood as liberty — can not be denied forever without cost.

What is conflict resolution without an understanding and practicing of the virtues of courage, self - control, justice, wisdom, and respect and responsibility?

The crucial divide is between those who look to the exercise of autonomy (following Kant or Nietzsche) as the essence of perfected dignity and those who stress the avoidance of evil and the practice of the virtues.

And, citing the book of Sirach (3:3 - 7, 14 - 17), he added: «The word of God presents the family as the first school of wisdom, a school which trains its members in the practice of those virtues which make for authentic happiness and lasting fulfilment.»

The philosophical foundation of Solzhenitsyn s Christianity is the plebian's mythopoetic conception of religion as the practice of virtue (as opposed to Sartre's modernist idea of it as a kind of mystified ideology).

This kind of liberty is a condition of self - governance of both city and soul, drawing closely together the individual cultivation and practice of virtue and the shared activities of self - legislation.

Aristotle's Ethics and Aquinas» Summa Theologica are alike efforts to delineate the limits that nature — thus, natural law — places upon human beings, and each seeks to educate man about how best to live within those limits, through the practice of virtues, in order to achieve a condition of human flourishing.

Although the individual may for a time seem to outwardly decline in their practices of virtue, they in reality become more virtuous, as they are being virtuous less for the spiritual rewards (ecstasies in the cases of the first night) obtained and more out of a true love for God.

The end of education should be to develop virtuous citizens, and the practice of virtues is something worth learning.

The practice of these virtues will enable anyone to progress in life without any doubt.

Aristotle defined personal development as a category of practical wisdom, where the practice of virtues leads to happiness, human flourishing and living well.