Sentences with phrase «principle of agape»

A GCSE or A-level lesson introducing Situation Ethics and Joseph Fletcher's core principle of Agape.

Peirce's argument against determinism in «The Doctrine of Necessity Examined,» published a year earlier than his paper on evolutionary love, clearly lays the basis for the affirmation of radical creativity and the need for the principle of agape (6.36 - 65).

Not exact matches

A personalistic philosophy of life does not offer us absolute knowledge;... we discover divine purpose in so far as our human purposes are ruled by the New Testament principles of logos and agape - reason and love.

As was pointed out a moment ago, because the agape in question is a principle of finite creative agents, the agapastic love of these agents must be infected by eros.

However, in proposing that agape is the principle of creativity, Peirce attempted to show that specific instances of spontaneity can be the responsibility of an operative principle, agape, which specifically functions creatively.

This discussion began with the observation that Peirce offered an insight into speculation about evolution when he introduced the notion of agape as an operative principle.

We said that in principle the good which agape seeks must include the good of the self, for the Kingdom of God does not exclude any good, even my own.

The foreword of the present book includes a 1965 letter from Ramsey to Fletcher: «[T] he candid issue between us is whether agape is expressed in acts only or in rules also, which question is generally begged; or else the structures in which human beings live are attributed to other than uniquely Christian sources of understanding (natural law, etc.) while Christians go about pretending to live in a world without principles.

It should be made clear that all students are to be treated with kindness and agape love, empathy, but the principles of the Bible are to be adhered to, taught and not deviated from, as Jesus taught we of Christ are to be in, never of the world.

He simply carried a Christian understanding of agape (love or covenant fidelity), relatively detached from its theological context, into medical ethics and then used this love as a principle by which to evaluate and transform the covenants already present in the world of medical care.

Also, he sees freedom and equality as perennial principles of justice that, like agape in relation to philia and justice, serve as judgment on their approximations (or lack thereof), and call communities to fuller approximations.