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Showing 1 to 20 of 303 for “"virtues"”.
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Liberalism and the virtues
… of liberal democracy have relegated the liberal virtues---traits such as tolerance, reasonableness, and fairness---to a secondary role within the theory and practice of liberal justice. Their reasoning for this is clear: the virtues prescribe a vision of the good life, while the aim of the …
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The Virtues of Ethnicity
Error theorists about race face a challenge from the occurrence of diseases and other health ailments that, appear, to be tracked by groups that are carved out by racial terms. If race does indeed allow us to make useful medical distinctions, then it would seem foolish or even a form of medical …
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HUMAN FLOURISHING: VALUES AND VIRTUES
… while ancient philosophers have all pointed to virtues as a vital component, today, they have been notably left out of the conversation. The purpose of this study is to explore the possible ways the virtues of Justice, Humanity and Transcendence could be potentially understood through the …
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Healthcare virtues and professional education
… respectfulness are necessary health professional virtues, they are not sufficient. Two further necessary virtues will be discussed in relation to the health professions: courage and practical wisdom. The more holistic approach to ethics proposed in this thesis requires attention to: …
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Rawls, Political Liberalism, and Moral Virtues
… gives a major place and role to the moral virtues in his theory of political liberalism, as in all of his system of justice as fairness. Some philosophers, mostly of the Aristotelian-Aquinian traditions, have generally lamented what they regard as the abandonment of the moral virtues by …
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Neglected Virtues: Love, Hope and Humility
… at the pinnacle of the hierarchy of the virtues. This vindicates the epistemic role Murdochian love fulfils, since she conceives of the virtues as involving knowledge. I then apply this conception of love to debates about epistemic partiality, and suggest that it gives reason to think …
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How Virtues and Values Affect Marital Intimacy
… of this study was to better understand how virtues and values affect marital intimacy. Ten married couples were given a marital satisfaction assessment and participated as individuals in 1-1/2 hour interviews which were audiotaped and then transcribed. Using grounded theory and also the …
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Towards an architecture for teaching virtues, values and ethics
… for teaching an eventual curriculum about virtues, values and ethics. I address three sources of research: the voices of teachers who are teaching thinking and thinking skills; the authors who address the various themes and sub-themes emerging from the thesis questions; and an …
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Varying Virtue : Mythological Paragons of Wifely Virtues in Roman Elegy
… Alcestis and Euadne) used as paragons of wifely virtues in Roman elegy. Providing extensive close readings, it discusses the usage of these five characters in the works of Propertius and Tibullus, and in the elegiac works of Ovid, with special reference to issues of narratology, intertextuality, …
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The virtues of passive damping for feedback controlled flexible structures
Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1991.
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Attributions of inferential error, epistemic virtues, and models of minimal rationality
I defend an account of agency which holds that a more desirable, empirically accurate, model of rationality must reject certain well-entrenched assumptions about the connection between logic and good reasoning. I argue following Cherniak, that models of rationality must use desire fulfillment, and …
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Noble virtues and rich chaines : patronage in the poetry of Amilia Lanyer
Aemilia Lanyer's Salve Dues Rex Judaeorum has been primarily discussed by literary scholars as a protofeminist text, one that celebrates and defends female community. While such readings have illuminated Lanyer's radical claims of gender equality, these interpretations tend to idealize Lanyer's …
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The Virtues-Based Leadership Model: Assessing Consistency Across Three Spheres-of-Life
<p>This study develops and tests whether the virtues-based leadership model is able to identify consistencies and inconsistencies in a leader’s use of cardinal and theological virtues (the seven Christian virtues) across their embraced, espoused and enacted spheres of life. I present an exploratory …
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Profile membership of self-worth contingencies predicts well-being, virtues, and values.
… well-being, purpose/meaning, performance virtues, and prosocial virtues, and high self-transcendence and low self-enhancement values. High Contingents (highest contingency in all domains) reported the worst well-being, second-highest others-focused compassion, and high self-transcendence …
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Emotional Virtues in a Faithful Expository Ministry: Utilizing Robert C. Roberts to Argue for a Model of Expository Preaching That Fosters the Maturation of Emotional Virtues Within a Congregation
… to present a framework of Christian emotional virtues that will aid expositors to preach sermons that better cultivate emotional virtues such as joy and peace. The first chapter develops the thesis and argues for a biblical warrant for the development of emotional virtues. The second chapter …
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Dea Roma and the Roman virtues : a comparative study in the policy and practice of Deified abstractions
The purpose of this thesis is to provide an in-depth study of the goddess Roma and the development and spread of her cult across the eastern and western halves of the Roman Empire from the second century BC to the reign of Augustus. In the east the institution of her cult was the result of …
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Aristotle's Virtues of Justice, Liberality, and Friendship and How they Reduce the Problems of Global Governance and Contribute Positively to its Goals
… in the administration of moral and intellectual virtues. Global governance addresses the problems of authority, legitimation, and contestation, as seen from the perspective of author Michael Zürn. In the primary text, Zürn argues for the existence of such issues as legitimation, contestation, …
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A Thomistic principle of virtue individuation.
… to virtue individuation. When we individuate virtues, we answer questions about the number of human virtues that exist and the ways in which they differ from one another. Most contemporary moral philosophers answer these questions in a haphazard way -- a practice that is in no small way …
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Ren Leadership: An Interpretive Biography of Bai Fangli
… life of Bai Fangli through the lens of Confucian virtues. This study followed Denzin's (1989a) qualitative design of interpretive biography by exploring Bai's epiphanies to offer multiple perspectives on the significance of the epiphanies and their impact on Bai's life and his influence as a …
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