Sentences with phrase «well as its virtues»

Familiarity and affinity breed bad habits as well as virtues.

But that mirror should register the faults of the middle class as well as its virtues.

Not exact matches

Patience is the one virtue that serves us as businesspeople well.

This is a good problem for a company to have, as it typically means there is an up - round financing, existing investors can help drive company - friendly terms in the new round, and the investor syndicate increases in strength by virtue of new capital (and — presumably — another helpful co-investor) in the deal.

Many have pointed out (most recently, Carson Holloway) that the application of natural law to our situation requires the virtue of prudence, a mastery of the details of our circumstances (such as is possible for a human being), with the goals and the weights given to particular considerations by good moral character (or, if you will, a well - formed conscience).

With this encomium to Rick's virtue that seem like a campaign elegy, I don't mean to write off his chances for ultimately winning the nomination as the primary season goes on (though I think the chances are doubtful at best).

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

I can't argue about its virtues as a sport though I do know it's the national sport of Canada but is it better than basketball.

Since that time, a variety of thoughts and biases have come toward an association with the label, such as libertarians, the southern agrarians, and the religious, as well as reconstructions of traditionalism (Kirk), calls for experience and history in the place of abstract reason (Oakeshott and Scruton), and a defense of moral and intellectual virtue outside organized religion (Strauss).

It should give one pause, however, that Abraham Lincoln was quite comfortable with the idea that law is a business as well as a profession, and that his idea of virtue in a lawyer was not much different from common decency in any other occupation.

As love becomes merely a passion, as safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted, as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carinAs love becomes merely a passion, as safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted, as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carinas safety becomes merely a term for never being contradicted, as victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from carinas victimhood and oppression are turned into subjective categories rooted in emotional psychology, the very language by which we understand virtues, well - being, and concern becomes not a tool for care but a barrier preventing us from caring.

The economy can not work without a polity of law respectful of natural rights, as well as the cultural habits or virtues necessary to support all three systems - in - one.

The author, professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles of human action, the determination of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.

Perhaps we would do well to learn from Augustine to think of the family as a school of virtue, or from I John of the family as a sphere in which we learn the meaning of commitment to a few and begin to learn the steps of the greater dance of love.

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.

But such virtues as compassion, respect, and toleration are shared by morals and manners, and hence form the basis of imperatives of ethics, as well as of etiquette.

Not only can such a deity be blamed for not intervening, but also held responsible, by virtue of the doctrine of creatio ex nihilo, for natural defects as well as deficient wills.17

«All political choices of the time were interpreted as choices between morality and immorality, good and evil, virtue and vice,» writes Kekes.

If the family really is the domestic church and parents the primary educators and protectors of their children, then we must be more creative in promoting and supporting them as the first and best of teachers in the home, the school of human virtues.

Hence, we must attribute to God not only the conceptual ordering of the eternal objects by virtue of which he lures the occasions of the world toward order and value; we must attribute to him as to all other actual entities physical feelings as well.

he appealed to «nature» as standard in a way a Stoic might have done; (I Corinthians 11:14 - 15) his praise of moderation and his use of «virtue» were in good current form; (Philippians 4:8.)

Antony developed a reputation as a man of great virtue and wisdom (as well as being a little eccentric) and Christians desperate to know God in a more intimate ways followed his example shortly after.

I was with you on this one, David, till the end when you turned the blame as - if on your self for not «conforming like a good soldier,» when in fact your non-conforming is the virtue of your integrity, some what tarnished by your irony: faux blame.

The author explores the notions of feelings, virtue, shame, loyalty and forgiveness, as well as the gift of self and the meaning of the body.

God can very well embrace surpass - ability by others, but as his property only insofar as it is that of relative beings united to him by virtue of his relative aspect.

By contrast, those responsible for ruling, the «philosopher kings,» were to be «cultured» in a way that formed in them the «philosophical virtue» that was grounded in knowledge of the Good itself and not, as were the guardians» virtues, simply trained into them by custom and practice.

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.

They may need a gentle reminder that their success is not an unambiguous reward for virtue; rather, each new achievement stands as a challenge to learn to do good on that level of accomplishment or proficiency.1

Freedom is not a matter of doing what we like, «my way;» freedom is freely choosing what is good, and what can be known to be good, as a matter of moral habit — which is another word for «virtue.»

To «Lutheran irony» I would thus like to add «Lutheran composure,» not a blissful ignorance or a «passive righteousness» (as Luther himself called it), but a healthy faith in the long «term virtue of being, well, spectacularly normal.

Ms. Hinlicky justly defends chastity for the unmarried, but fails to recognize that married persons can practice this great virtue as well.

During the period when a college simply functioned as a gathering of the church, with its foibles and deficiencies as well as its advantages and virtues, its Christian identity seemed not to require affirmation or reflection.

What if we should begin to feel like a Herrenvolk, sure of our superior virtue as well as of our superior power?

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...!

Thus, within the common tradition, moral education is supposed not only to prepare people to rule but to prepare them as well to recognize in their fellows the virtues necessary for the exercise of authority.

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.

He sides against the faux - bohemian sophisticates devoid of real virtue and so who have no idea to how to live well as beings born to love and die.

I have no doubt that lots of non-believers are generous — which, after all, is a pagan as well as a Christian virtue.

Third, I will treat in detail the Hartshornian stance regarding abortion, a stance with which I agree, both to illustrate the aforementioned connection between moderation in metaphysics and moderation in ethics as well as to combat the charge that virtue ethics, because it focuses more on the character of agents than on their acts, is incapable of treating the really difficult issues in applied ethics.

But it should be noted that within an ethics of virtue it is possible to have a teleological dimension (pace Von Wright, Foot, and Hare) as well as a non-teleological dimension (as in G. E. M. Anscombe, Wallace, Peter Geach, MacIntyre, and even Aristotle, who has a prominent place for deontos in his ethics9).

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.

Augustine was formed in this same world, and he begins his response by appealing to the Roman understanding of civic virtue as presented by Cicero in his treatise De Re Publica, a work both he and Volusian knew well.

Insisting upon this definition of virtue would immediately have enormous benefits and would immediately transform the ways in which serious religious persons interact with one another, as well as the ways in which the scholarly study of religion is carried on.

He follows the historical emphasis of ethics of character and virtue by stressing such notions as consistency, reliability, dependability, integrity, and predictability as features of the good person (VV 53 - 63).

We thus have no serious choice but to accept them, to find what virtues we can in them, and to live our lives in a way that integrates them as best we can.

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).

There is no limit to sanctification, Niebuhr wrote, «except of course the one limit, that there will be some corruption, as well as deficiency, of virtue and truth on the new level of achievement.»

There is no reason to deny that human virtues are genuine goods in God's sight as well as man's.

Given his early Marxism as well as the influence of Collingwood and Wittgenstein, it should not be surprising that MacIntyre grew to find in Aristotle's account of the virtues and practical reason an understanding of the conditions necessary for our actions to be intelligible.