Sentences with phrase «seen as a virtue»

I would have thought being amicable at work would have been seen as a virtue not something to be seen as a negative?

«This is not the time to humble brag by citing a mistake that can actually be seen as a virtue, like a time you worked «too hard» on a project or didn't delegate because you wanted to keep a close eye on quality,» she says.

There are different brands of christianity, but selflessness is usually seen as a virtue, arrogance is not.

Many Trump supporters see this as a virtue; but it conflicts with GOPE ideas of dignity and decorum.

It doesn't really matter to them unless they see it as a virtue to conserve.

Not exact matches

Should the House succeed in creating pressure on the Senate to act on a version of the FORM Act, it would not be surprising to see the discussion move away from the Taylor rule to NGDP targeting - with advocates selling its broad appeal as its leading virtue.

There are a host of articles out there urging leaders to demonstrate some of humanity's most prized virtues, qualities like honesty, humility, and empathy (as you can see from the links, I've written a few of them myself.)

Children are currently seen as having a religion by virtue of their parents but it could be argued that children have no religious faith until such time as they are deemed mature enough to make decisions around consent..

Jesus sees no virtue in Clinton supporters dismissing swaths of people as racists and misogynists because they plan to vote for a candidate who displays some of those qualities.

In time, this discussion about the cardinal virtues passed into Catholicism, where it was incorporated into a structure of thought in which these virtues were seen to be the basis for, and as becoming finally realized in, the theological virtues of faith, hope, and love.

Another vision of democracy; however, sees it not only in terms of its result (private freedoms) but in terms of its foundation upon the virtues known in the classic tradition as «republican» or «civic» virtues.

One need merely approach it with an open mind to see that its authors were no mere robots, but human beings endowed with their own particular insights, virtues, customs, faith, and — as with all people — their own misconceptions and misunderstandings.

C. S. Lewis writes, «Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice.

If we look at the American founding narrowly from the perspective of its Lockean influence, it's easy to see the discovery of individual rights as a watershed substitute for a focus on Thomistic natural law or Aristotelian virtue.

As Christians, we believe our faith is founded in God's self - sacrificial love, a virtue we are commanded to emulate: «Let your light shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven» (Matt.

If we can see the connection between general civil religion and virtue defined as concern for the common good, we can begin to see the connections between general civil religion and special civil religion, for special civil religion defines the norms in terms of which the common good is conceived.

He contended in Fides et Ratio that anthropology is the nexus of the two Thomisms: «Metaphysics should not be seen as an alternative to anthropology, since it is metaphysics which makes it possible to ground the concept of personal dignity in virtue of their spiritual nature.

There is a temptation for members of a cultural elite to see their values as the only respectable virtues, a tendency that blinds the group to both cultural innovation and aesthetic dissent, especially from people deemed marginal to established intellectual society.

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

Or even more sad we see our gifts like servanthood, charity, love, and kindness as far off unattainable virtues.

The historical eye can see little, but that which we see commends itself as trustworthy by virtue of its naturalness.

In The Four Loves, C. S. Lewis writes, «Friendship (as the ancients saw) can be a school of virtue; but also (as they did not see) a school of vice.

They saw clearly Jesus» struggle against Mammon and all forms of exploitation, and his vision of virtue as love leading to effective sharing in community.

At the same time, it will be seen as important to encourage the young in that Christian optimism which is part of the virtue of hope.

The catechism, it will be seen, assigns belief in God and trust in God to two different virtues, though as Benedict XVI's Spe salvi points out, in several Biblical passages «the words «faith» and «hope» seem interchangeable»; [10] but is either of them to be counted as a virtue?

Sandel sees this as a misunderstanding of deontological liberalism, which is fully compatible with cooperative virtues.

When one realizes how different Hartshorne's ethics is from that found in deontology as usually conceived, and when one notices his numerous and repeated criticisms of utilitarianism, 10 one is then in a position to see how he culls insights from both of these in the effort to develop his own virtue ethics centered around the law of moderation.

In this regard Hartshorne's attachment to the virtue tradition is closer to that of G. H. Von Wright, who was insistent that the path to virtue is never laid out in advance, and to that of Lester Hunt, who claims that thought and emotions are fused in virtues rather than thought controlling emotion as an alien, recalcitrant subject matter.6 In the terms of Hartshorne's process philosophy, and of his Peirceian pragmatism7, a person's principles are seen in his actions just as in Hartshorne's metaphysics universals are embedded in the world of becoming, as Aristotle and Plato (correctly read, according to Hartshorne) have also indicated.

Those without a voice or proper sense of self have been taught to see their humiliation as the virtue of humility.

The republicans (i.e., the reluctant supporters and anti-Federalist opponents of the new Constitution) supported a tradition of political thought that wanted to see government «make of its citizens the best people they are capable of becoming,» to inculcate moral virtue as it was defined by each concrete political community.

I present urban form to my students in the long and large western humanist tradition that sees cities as communal artifacts that human animals by our nature make in order to live well (with all the teleological and virtue ethics implications of that tradition's notion of living well).

As I see it, part of the problem with the approach characteristic of Deneen and company is not merely a romanticizing of halcyon days that are now surely, if not entirely, irrevocably lost and an underappreciation of its own peculiar obstacles to virtue.

I will only recall that, by virtue of its convergent nature, hominization is scarcely conceivable (seen from the point at which we find ourselves) except as terminating, whatever road it follows, in a point of collective reflection where Mankind, having achieved within and around itself, technically and intellectually, the greatest possible coherence, will find itself raised to a higher critical point — one of instability, tension, inter-penetration and metamorphosis — coinciding, it would seem, with what for us are the phenomenal limits of the world.

I am not suggesting that we must all seek to live monastic lives, but the virtue of humility as explored by St Benedict has so much to teach us, especially if we are called to be Christ in our lives on earth and to see Christ in others.

The American Values Network, a group of political activists and pastors, sparked a debate when it recently released a video challenging some conservative and Republican leaders» professed admiration for Rand, an atheist who saw selfishness as a virtue and celebrated unfettered capitalism.

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Rand did not see selfishness as a virtue (liberals read so poorly they can not Rand).

St. Paul writes of submitting to rulers because they have authority from God, and before the Enlightenment, Christian thinkers saw the ruler as being like a father, who intends the good of his children and educates them in virtue.

People often smile when it is said that only love can really see another person as he is; we are inclined to think that love is «blind», failing to see defects and always ready to discover values and virtues.

The ancient monks saw zeal as the virtue opposed to sloth, and in the Christmas readings we find the «zeal of the Lord» invoked by both the prophet Isaiah and the author of the letter to Titus.

In the 17th and 18th centuries, as we will see, freedom was part of a whole articulated framework of moral and religious values — it meant freedom to do the good and was almost equivalent to virtue.

He said: «We're going to need to change by virtue a humanised political debate over exactly what we want to see in our country, that means changing the law, it is also changing the culture so people view abortion as what it is, destruction of an unborn child.»

As they develop economically, non-Western societies are more likely to see virtues in political democracy than in Western Christianity and they will become more likely to reinterpret their religious and cultural traditions so as to make them compatible with the democratic political practiceAs they develop economically, non-Western societies are more likely to see virtues in political democracy than in Western Christianity and they will become more likely to reinterpret their religious and cultural traditions so as to make them compatible with the democratic political practiceas to make them compatible with the democratic political practices.

Eliminating suffering by eliminating the sufferer is not seen by euthanasia supporters as a vice, but as a virtue.

«This is noteworthy,» Kohn writes, «because the virtue of self - restraint — or at least the decision to give special emphasis to it — has historically been preached by those, from St. Augustine to the present, who see people as basically sinful.»

And yet, as important as the public schools have been, the real school of republican virtue in America, as Alexis de Tocqueville saw with such masterful clarity, was the church.

Conventional observers saw this behavior as a betrayal of all the civilizing virtues for which their society stood.

he pleaded for the virtues of humility, harmony, magnanimity, saying, «Treat one another with the same spirit as you experience in Christ Jesus»; (Philippians 2:1 - 5 [Moffatt translation]-RRB- he saw the bearing of one another's burdens as the fulfilment of the «law of Christ»; (Galatians 6:2.)

However, he goes on to criticize, at some length, the failure, as he saw it, of education of his day» which he says is based on Protestantism» to teach the necessary virtues and concludes with the exaggerated statement that «only in the bosom of the Catholic Church can this [moral education] be found.»

Helping his young friends to see the good and choose it as a matter of habit — growth in virtue — was Karol Wojtyła's pastoral method.