Sentences with phrase «what virtue»

This virtue precondition of Madison is an intriguing idea that may explain a lot about the increasing size of government which may have to step in and legislate and regulate the areas that people need a little encouraging reminder as what virtue may require.

The issue is not whether people in developing countries «should» have air conditioning — what virtue is there in dying in your apartment during a heat wave?

The status menu is reasonably complicated too with a large number of symbols and numbers littering the screen to denote things such as your merits (only briefly explaining merits replace experience points to level up), the happy face denoting your virtue (still not entirely sure what virtue affects since many people still don't trust me despite having maximum virtue), the happiness levels of each territory (I assume this means citizens will revolt when unhappy but again, not very clear) and much more.

However, the bishop's generosity teaches him what virtue and integrity are.

Misrepresenting what virtue signaling means, and using phrases you don't like as a hammer isn't an argument or a refutation.

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 law.

If we ask what virtue and corruption meant to the founding fathers the answer is clear from the quotations I have just cited and from many more I could have cited.

It is the essence of general civil religion that it is religion in general, If we ask what virtue and corruption meant to the founding fathers the answer is clear.

What virtues does Plato want me, as his reader, to develop?

What virtues does God want to grow in us?

What virtues and vices do blogging and the following of blogs cultivate in a person, and where do these lead?

What virtues do we want to encourage?

The problem in a republic, however, was not simply that individuals argued about what the virtues were or how they were to be formed and expressed.

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.

This does not merely tell us what virtues to exercise in any situation.

Q: What virtues do you admire in a business leader?

Not exact matches

The newcomers see no virtue in honoring the institution's hidebound folkways; that's what got us into this mess in the first place.

People are experts by virtue of what they know or what they can do.

«There is no virtue to sticking to a plan if it's not useful and responsive to what actually happens,» he cautions.

«And what does reward virtue?»

With today's near - maniacal focus on key metrics, dashboards, and KPIs, perhaps it's time to measure and track the good old - fashioned virtue of doing what we say.

They profoundly believed in what some would quaintly regard today as traditional business virtues — hard work, sacrifice, loyalty, honesty, and humility.

For a host of reasons, governments the world over have chosen to cut spending, not as a virtue, but as what they believe to be the less severe of two painful options.

Apple long ago made it a virtue that it tells consumers what they want, instead of asking them.

Until, of course, you remember the culture - induced myopia I described yesterday: Myerson still has the Ballmer-esque presumption that Microsoft controlled its own destiny and could have leveraged its assets (like Office) to win the smartphone market, ignoring that by virtue of being late Windows Phone was a product competing against ecosystems, which meant no consumer demand, which meant no developers, topped off by the arrogance to dictate to OEMs and carriers what they could and could not do to the phone, destroying any chance at leveraging distribution to get critical mass...

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

The current German politics of imposing austerity measures on the rest of Europe stems from the tradition of what Adrian Pabst memorably termed «Kantian morality of context-less duties, Weberian statecraft void of virtue, and Bismarckian quasi-military management of citizens through centralised welfare.»

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.

If i was Hawkins, i would be a bit more toughtful, and look deep into his own huiman condition and accept he «s a living miracle granted by virtue of God, or, in scientific terms, Anti Matter, so, as to try and figure out why is he still alive, and what is his real mission on earth.

And a few of us remember from the No Left Turns days that, while ultimately not agreeing, he admitted the power of a Christian and virtue - ethics «media - fasting» case made against all TV by the commenter «wm.» «Wm» is a very erudite and Catholic (and yet also rock - attuned) professor whose identity I'll reveal if I get permission, and here's a taste of what he said in that thread:

Of course, what they do in such circumstances is detach pastoral language from its traditional connections to notions of virtue and thereby reduce it to that of passion.

Further, doing what one has always done is no virtue, except for hardline conservatives that long for the good old days when men were men and sheep were scared.

And what of this new story of poverty and virtue?

So discipleship is learning the virtues of Jesus so that when the time comes that we are called to act then we can act out of our second nature to do what King Jesus tells us to do.

Indeed, visions of Mary's virtue have been amplified though the centuries, far beyond what we find in the biblical text.

But if salvation is not a matter of Heaven vs. Hell, and if it is not virtue, happiness, or health, what is it?

Consider, people love to praise the virtue of the golden rule, reap what you say, karma, what goes around comes around and so on, but do unto to others as you would have done unto you, tends to devolve into do unto to others as is done to you.

I have emphasized that persons are what they are by virtue of their internal relations They are not like substances.

They need what Christians are supposed to provide by virtue of their title and job description: living examples that God is and that God loves.

If Allah had so willed, He would have made you a single people, but (His plan is) to test you in what He hath given you: so strive as in a race in all virtues.

God Allah wanted us to be more than one nation or single people as mentioned but that was for testing us so to strive as in a race in all virtues for Allah as a goal and that what ever being disputed the truth of which will be revealed to us on earth or after resurrection and on Judgment Day...!

These understandings are what humans take for granted by virtue of being socialized into a particular imaginary.

What if, as I believe is true in the present case, policies and court orders invite the doing of that which virtue would inhibit, even if it can not always effectively prohibit?

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 classical psychology of virtue, shame in doing what is wrong and a delight in doing what is right, it insists that hope is at the centre of the arduous task of chastity - and that chaste celibacy is a singular manifestation of hope for others.»

The dissolution of this opposition takes place only when each form of the Godhead, by virtue of its inherent independence, dissolves itself in itself: «Therefore that element which has for its essence, not independent self - existence but simple being, is what empties and abandons itself, gives itself unto death, and so reconciles Absolute Being with its own self.»

First, Plato argues that, instead of focusing on disputes about which virtues are the needful ones and how they are to be distinguished one from another, it is more important and fruitful to attend to what they have in common and inquire into what Virtue is in itself — the essence of virtue.

To what extent is our culture teaching the world the virtues of citizenship, self - control, care of others?

It would be idle to speculate what theory he would have developed about the sources of their virtues and how these are related to Christ.

2 - innocence: virtue and innocence The dictionary definition describes what purity is.