Sentences with phrase «virtue in vice»
The province has already seen enough virtue in vice to announce a new casino in the Greater Toronto Area and expand lottery sales, online gambling and sports betting.
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After one has sorted out the pseudonyms, there is still the challenge of discovering how, for Kierkegaard, a difference of voice implies a difference of character» how vice and virtue are embodied in a style.
[27] John Damascene or of Damascus (657 - 749) monk and theologian, 2 On the Virtues and the Vices, (in The Philokalia).
Vice on the other hand, like virtue, specifically focuses on deep - rooted patterns in character.
It is an experience of living together, in community and in conflict, within boundaries set by our moral and philosophical commitments but also under conditions determined by our vices and virtues, our character, our circumstances, and the habits of our variegated culture.
The capital virtues and vices find themselves in the trunk and main branches of their respective tree.
In the last poignant section of his Pastoral Care Gregory provides a pithy summary of the complex balance needed to foster virtue without inadvertently encouraging vice.
This latter inclusion is Davies's most radical departure from Christian orthodoxy and reveals most strikingly his debt to Jung, who argued that vice and virtue are mutually interdependent — always in contention, but never entirely to be factored out one from the other.
Gregory's basic maxim is still a useful guide, even though difficult to apply: An exhortation that is intended to be delivered to a general audience must be gauged in such a way that «virtues are fostered in each without encouraging the growth of vices opposed to such virtues.
And because vice and virtue are locked in mortal combat, virtue's cultivation must be vigorous.
To be sure, many groups present themselves in a way that suggests that they have a monopoly on support for virtue and opposition to vice.
The defect in this confidence in individual conversion is that it obscures the dual and social character of human selves and the individual and social character of their virtues and vices.
What virtues and vices do blogging and the following of blogs cultivate in a person, and where do these lead?
The idea that society could be based on a mere coagulation of individual interests, that the pursuit of private vice could result in public virtue, was a radically new idea in the 17th and 18th centuries and one that did not sit well with other still powerful traditions.
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.
In their contemporary experience they have dealt with both types of ministers and have found virtues and vices attached to both types.
Morality plays, based on scriptural themes and dramatized for the illiterate masses of the Middle Ages the struggle of good with evil, embodied in the various characters virtues such as innocence, beauty, kindness, and patriotism in their triumph over vices such as sloth, ugliness, gluttony, lying, and cheating.
For example, one of the possible vices of virtue ethics is what Robert Louden calls a «somewhat misty antiquarian air» (APQ 21) to much that goes on in virtue ethics (say in MacIntyre, Geach, and Anscombe), which is not found in Hartshorne, even if he is personally something of a latter - day Victorian figure.
If one has never journeyed into the deep — prayed (which includes Scripture / theological study, faith sharing, adoration, spiritual formation / retreats, pilgramages, Mass, reconciliation, fasting, listening for God's voice, and more) on an ongoing fashion or done God's will (been obedient, patient, humble, unconditionally sacrificing, unselfish) to the extent that they understand what it means to be Catholic and God being your number one priority — that His Ways and those of His Church are not the ways of the world (trade vices for virtues) and that we are being called into communion with Him via love for Him and one another in our faith community and broader community — then it is no wonder some are lost or disillusioned.
It must be admitted that there are certain potential vices to virtue ethics even in its minimalist mode, i.e., even when it does not try to crowd out the legitimate insights of deontologists and utilitarians (e.g., from the deontological side, that there are limits — deontoi — regarding what any virtuous person can be permitted to do, and, from the utilitarian side, that there are calculations which are relevant regarding many moral decisions the virtuous person must make).
Professionals almost never explain or analyse these terms in terms of virtue and vice or solidarity and selfishness, leaving the would - be Christian commentator to face the daunting challenge of simultaneously understanding and re-interpreting the signs of the times.
The critics have reminded the church of its part in the development of that economic system which, whatever its virtues, has revealed its vices so clearly to our times that none can take pride in having assisted it to success, in however innocent a role.
As for myself, it was impossible to believe that if the demon were its author, he could have used, in order to lose me and lead me to hell, an expedient so contrary to his own interests as that of uprooting my vices, and filling me with masculine courage and other virtues instead, for I saw clearly that a single one of these visions was enough to enrich me with all that wealth.»
Impartiality on abortion is no virtue, zealotry in favor of abortion is no vice.
Among the recurrent themes of Gregory's pastoral book are these four axioms: (1) that each pastoral case requires variable response, (2) that the display of an outstanding virtue may conceal a corresponding vice to which the pastoral counselor must attend, (3) that the pastor's care mirrors Christ's care for us, and (4) that authority in ministry is paradoxically validated only through humble service following the example of Jesus Christ.
He was intrigued by the ways in which every vice is correlated with its virtue so that personal interaction becomes a constant interplay of these opposites, complements, and corollaries.
In this nominalist world, which is now our own world, reason is deployed not to ascertain what virtue and vice truly are, in accordance with the objective natural law, but to rationalize the definitions of vice and virtue that the powerful define, irrespective of the natural laIn this nominalist world, which is now our own world, reason is deployed not to ascertain what virtue and vice truly are, in accordance with the objective natural law, but to rationalize the definitions of vice and virtue that the powerful define, irrespective of the natural lain accordance with the objective natural law, but to rationalize the definitions of vice and virtue that the powerful define, irrespective of the natural law.
Vice has always a new fresh young face, while virtue is venerable as nothing else in the world is.»
A Modest Defense of Gossip, Rudeness, and Other Bad Habits by Emrys Westacott Princeton, 304 pages, $ 26.95 In The Virtues of Our Vices, Emrys Westacott eschews academic theorizing about hypothetical life - and - death moral dilemmas (such as the «trolley problem»)....
This self - determination is traditionally described by the contrasting categories of virtue and vice, where virtue is found in the manifold of habits that order the powers of the soul to their true good, and vice in their correlative negative opposites.
Their approval or disapproval alone distinguished their otherwise parallel interpretations of the course of modern history since the Renaissance, for the liberals ascribed all virtue to liberal Christianity and all vice to authoritarian Catholicism while their ultra-conservative colleagues in debate simply reversed the order.
And if any one disbelieves that God cares for these things, he will thereby either insinuate that God does not exist, or he will assert that though He exists He delights in vice, or exists like a stone, and that neither virtue nor vice are anything, but only in the opinion of men these things are reckoned good or evil.
But, in general, he was speaking up for the option and practical possibilities of a «true» Catholic Christianity, and against the sinful Christian vices of the (Christian) rulers and citizens of the day by showing the «natural» virtues of «good pagans» (who, incidentally, he depicted as practising euthanasia, an option for «reasonable» men unenlightened by Christian faith) in his imaginary faraway republic.
Speaking to Adom FM's Afia Pokua aka Vim Lady, Lawyer Ohenewa said «Mrs. Bawumia is Second Lady of Ghana in case she hasn't recognized it; some of us, will have to tell her that, she occupies a very big position by virtue of the fact that, she's married to the vice president of Ghana.
In keeping with the Tory backbencher's own good breeding, his advice was that his party «should be enormously polite about UKIP» and that it should try to understand their virtues as well as their vices.
Each of these virtues, in time, is shown to be a vice.
In current conditions, deficits are a virtue not a vice.
In a heated Commons debate on the issue last night, the party's shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne admitted that Labour need to do «much more work» to tackle anti-Semitism and vowed: «No political party has the monopoly on vice or virtue but we will put our house in order.&raquIn a heated Commons debate on the issue last night, the party's shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne admitted that Labour need to do «much more work» to tackle anti-Semitism and vowed: «No political party has the monopoly on vice or virtue but we will put our house in order.&raquin order.»
In the moment, it can be tough for shoppers to balance what consumer researchers call «vices and virtues.»
Instead, follow the science of vice virtue bundles, which says the optimal eating formula for keeping calories in check and circumventing binge triggers is pairing a quarter of a serve of your favourite food — pork crackle included — with three quarters of less energy - dense sides.
These are characters that live more for image and gratification than in anything else, and their lack of common sense and willingness to engage in vice over virtue sees them stumble time and time again.
Thin organizations are more anonymous, ephemeral, transient, and transactional, while thick organizations think in terms of virtue and vice.»
In a recent post on the Education Next blog («Up With Teachers, Not So Much With Unions»), he draws a sharp distinction between the virtue of teachers and the vices of their unions.
His second essay, called «Madison's Vices» in ironic tribute to its author's undoubted virtue, was an incisive catalog of the infirmities of the Articles.
Possessed neither of exceptional virtues nor alarming vices, Prince Christian exhibited the solid virtues of his Junker lineage: a stern sense of order, discipline, integrity, thrift, and piety, along with an unshakable lack of interest in gossip, intrigue, literature, and the wider world in general.
ERWIN WURM Just about Virtues and Vices in general (interior), 2016 - 2017 caravan, furniture, and mixed media Installation view, 2017 Venice Biennale
In this work, Geers effectively questions moral authorities, investigating how concepts of vice and virtue have been inscribed into our cultural code.
Joan Simon, «Bruce Nauman: Vices and Virtues: Interview», 2001, in Janet Kraynak (ed.)
Prior to making Partial Truth Nauman executed a series of seven black granite slabs titled Seven Virtues / Seven Vices (private collection) in 1983 — 4, which were his first works in carved black granite.
reasons why the Supreme Court's Sixth Amendment jurisprudence has been so quirky and unpredictable has the the fact that the Court has been, from the very beginning and even in all state cases, shadow - boxing about the validity, viability, virtues and vices of the federal sentencing guidelines.