Sentences with phrase «social virtues»

George Weigel notes the way the bulk of the encyclical exhibits various fragments of Catholics» differing views of social virtues, but keeping in mind the introduction to the encyclical — remembering that it is not throat - clearing but the key to understanding what follows — may allow the reader to see the pope's overarching intention.
Their ultimate goal, the kingdom of God, is after all a society, and their supreme moral principle, love, is a decidedly social virtue.
Instead «the House of Bishops has affirmed that stable, faithful homosexual relationships can»em body crucial social virtues» of fidelity and mutuality.»
The incoming immigrants, some from other parts of the United States, others from Sweden, Germany, and elsewhere, built «an archipelago of Christian churches on the Dakota prairie that deepened community ties, inculcated social virtue, and generally promoted social order.»
Since time immemorial, etiquette has been used to establish the principles of social virtue, as well as the rules, symbols, and rituals of civilized life.
Some societies may not have high sense of selfhood and the right of self - determination, but may show a great measure of social virtues; and others may have high sense of self and its freedom but may show greater perversity in human relations.
The PACT educational vision is therefore underpinned not just by the idea that the parents are the first educators of their children, with all that that entails (including the understanding that «the family is the first school of those social virtues which everyday society needs», as the Second Vatican Council's Declaration on Christian Education puts it), but also by the idea that an education in the virtues is the basis of genuine freedom.
It does not believe that social virtue will be rewarded by length of life but that «no evil can befall a good man» — or a good nation — «in life or in death.»
Hence the very sensible connection between sexual modesty as a social virtue and sexual morality as a religious one.
These institutions habituate us to the practice of essential private and social virtues, like honesty, self - control and kindness, without which neither markets nor democratic governments can function well.
The emphasis in France was on reason, while in England these thinkers were more concerned with the social virtues of compassion, benevolence and sympathy.
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