Sentences with phrase «self interest there»

Christians come in with the «therefore»: THEREFORE without self interest there can be no real means of significant corporate or individual giving.

Not exact matches

Laloux said that he finds the situation at Zappos to be especially interesting, because while he's studied some very successful self - managed companies around the world and across varied industries, there's never been an attempt by a company as large as Zappos at making a transition to becoming one.

During the course of the campaign, Jokowi has drawn closer to some of the entrenched interests that he is, in theory, running against — showing that for now, perhaps, there are limits to just how high Indonesia's self - made, corruption - busting leader from the slums can climb on his own.

There is an interesting empirical research by psychologist in the European Journal of Social Psychology that explores the relationship between passion and self - esteem.

«They're greedy bastards, and they're putting a bunch of propaganda out there, trying to destroy my reputation and the reputation of Whole Foods, because it's in their self - interest to do so.»

If there is no policy or, better yet, no measurement of actual performance and follow up accordingly, self - interest is perpetuated and complacency is allowed continue, by the very people who should be leading by example.

There might be a hint of Evan Spiegel — the Snapchat CEO who turned down Facebook's $ 3 - billion takeover offer in 2014 — in Green's interest in forging his own path, but Brown says it's a sign of the self - determination his friend has always had.

Of course, there may be some degree of self - interest in this seemingly selfless request insofar as the bulk of Gildan's operations are in Central America and the Caribbean, unlike some of its competitors who may source more from Bangladesh.

That certainly reflects their perception of what is important, but it's important to recognize that there's an element of self - interest there (nothing wrong with that, we're all guitly of it, but let's recognize it for what it is).

I've learned some hard investing lessons over the years including that there is a lot of conflicting information on investing and retirement available, and many potential advisers (but not all) are motivated by self - interest.

And so there are blocks of self - interested people who can dominate these Cryptocurrencies.

The expectation of self - interested behavior was turned into a necessity and from there to a virtue.

The only thing interesting in your post was the simulation part and that is simply because we are finding that for the string theory to work, there needs to be self - correcting code in the underlying mathematics.

If you're interested in self - inquiry there are a lot of psychological texts written in recent years when the science was far, far in advance of anything understood about humans back in biblical times.

It's interesting to see how people will find their own truth, dig in their heals and be blind to any other idea... What would Jesus do is an interesting question... I consider my self a Christian and a spiritualist... because I believe it's just not as black and white as one religion or another thinks... there is way more grey area... but a fundamental truths that are a good rule to live life by, wether you are christian or not... treat others the way you want to be treated... do unto others... I am my brothers keeper... all apply.

Thus, the liberal view of happiness is untenable unless the preferential view can be defended, and there is at least rough justice in saying that the liberal understanding of self - interest is not only private but also preferential.

2 There is an ancient debate regarding whether all human action (and, therefore, all political action) is solely in pursuit of self - interest.

But there is a systematic reason why political theories with a preferential view of self - interest have taken politics to be wholly an instrumental activity.

On the one extreme there are poor single parents who work too much to have time for their children, and on the other the affluent parents who are too self «absorbed to take an interest in the life they brought into the world.

In a debate with C. S. Lewis, Henry Sidgwick and Kant, the authors convincingly put across the view that there has to be a connection between morality and the ultimate self - interest of all rational beings.

A respectful agnosticism is called for when often there is offered in its place a self - interested certainty.

Although the apparent dominance of self - interest in contemporary society makes the Family Doctor diagnosis plausible, there is another type of theology which finds the cause of the malady elsewhere.

There is here an implicit distinction between the apparent self - interest of the slaveholder and the real self - interest of the slaveholder which allowed Douglass to maintain that it was genuinely in the best interest of the slaveholder that slavery be abolished.

Even looking to Jesus» example for guidance — choosing love over self - interest — there's much left for us to interpret.

There are very pragmatic reasons why we should confront this matter with more honesty and long - term commitment than we've done in the past, but the main reason goes beyond self - interest.

I'm certain that mother and son both have redeeming qualities and that there are mitigating circumstances, but the vulnerable must be protected from the predatory behavior of those who pursue their disordered self - interests and desires at their expense.

There is no evidence that he had the slightest interest in self - promotion.

There can be no such thing as pure «selfishness since no self originates or exists in isolation from others and even the most subjective interest is still of a social nature.

Law is a set of practical restraints upon self - interested individuals; there is no assumption of the existence of self - restraint born of mutual concern.

But when we see good things happen, we ought to be open to asking the question: «Must there not be something at work other than narrow and brutal self - interest and absolutization of one's own group?

If I am correct that there has been a narrowing of the horizons of concern in the American public, and a franker affirmation of individual egoism and of national self - interest as determinants of action, we need to ask why.

But there seems little doubt that the Gospels here reflect the genuine teaching of Jesus and his concern to turn men's attention away from self - interest.

This means that at best there is only an enlightened self - interest.

Yet along with this self - interested fringe of values vendors there exists a solid center of genuinely concerned Americans who have seen the bottom fall out of the public moral conscience in little more than a generation.

There's nothing that makes you more miserable (or less interesting) than self - absorption: How am I feeling, how am I doing, how are people treating me... am I being treated justly?

Since there is no numerical identity between the various selves in the same ancestral chain, I look back upon past experiences and forward to future ones with both altruistic and self - interested feelings.

The problem is that there is a difference between the self - interested moralism of a good citizen and the transformational unconditional / kenotic love of a christian saint.

David, There is nothing like self - interest that has the power to blind us to justice.

There is our sexually neutral, needy, private, and self - loving interest in our own personal survival and well - being.

There is this capacity, but the same person who displays this capacity also reveals varying degrees of the power of self - interest and the subservience of life to these interests.

And there is no reason for us to take a superior position regarding our ancestors in the faith, as if we ourselves did not suffer from limitations of perspective and from a keen ability to disguise our self - interest in moral respectability.

There is an assumption in the American Constitution that rises out of a biblical insight into the nature of human life: given the self - centered, sinful nature of all human beings that causes us to operate from the vantage point of self - interest, no one person or one branch of government should ever be allowed to achieve total power.

Perhaps there is some way in which short - run self - interest for our generation could be made coincident with the interests of our descendants in the next century.

For a very long time now we have been willing to tell ourselves that there are two moralities: one for the private world of family and community, where people share common interests, and another for the public world, the world of economics and politics, where power, greed and self - interest hold sway.

Today's issues are less clear - cut than civil rights or the war in Vietnam; there are no great leaders to rally us, no powerful self - interested groups like the draft resisters of the war period with which to ally ourselves.

«In traditional thought and literature, there has been virtually no interest in foreign countries, societies, cultures or religions... India has not reached out for the west; it has not actively prepared the encounter and «dialogue» with Christian - European, or any other foreign countries» (Halbfass, 1988: 195).2 This self - contented and self - contained trend however underwent change in the early nineteenth century Three factors contributed to the new posture of «modern» Hinduism.

There is only self - interest, which is the natural, driving force of physical self - preservation of the individual.

There is no way that Christ's cause can be converted into an individual or community lifestyle of self - interest, self - protection and defense against vulnerability.

self: Perhaps view that vow as something the seminary put in there for its own interest and purpose.

There is nothing inherently cynical in alluding to Jewish self - interest.