The Good Life: Truths That Last in Times of NeedHarper Collins, 2009 M10 13 - 384 páginas The author of the New York Times bestseller The Good Book champions the recovery of the Western moral tradition. |
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... Once upon a time it was the perceived purpose of colleges not simply to secure jobs for their graduates, but, rather, in the now antique- sounding 1901 words of Harvard's President Charles William Eliot, “to cultivate within each of you ...
... Once upon a time it was the perceived purpose of colleges not simply to secure jobs for their graduates, but, rather, in the now antique- sounding 1901 words of Harvard's President Charles William Eliot, “to cultivate within each of you ...
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... once routinely given by the presidents of American colleges to students in their senior year as the required course to cap the liberal arts career. Comté-Sponville recognizes the intellectual conflict in the tradition between Christian ...
... once routinely given by the presidents of American colleges to students in their senior year as the required course to cap the liberal arts career. Comté-Sponville recognizes the intellectual conflict in the tradition between Christian ...
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... by profession. The value questions now, however, which were once tied to potential net worth, increasingly have to do with matters of moral value, public and private virtue, and a sense of a fit vocation A More Excellent Way 17.
... by profession. The value questions now, however, which were once tied to potential net worth, increasingly have to do with matters of moral value, public and private virtue, and a sense of a fit vocation A More Excellent Way 17.
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... once suggested to me, the trick is to choose the bottom half of the class with the same care as the top half, while mindful of the fact that excellence comes in many forms and is measured in many ways. Excellence seems a rather abstract ...
... once suggested to me, the trick is to choose the bottom half of the class with the same care as the top half, while mindful of the fact that excellence comes in many forms and is measured in many ways. Excellence seems a rather abstract ...
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... once called “a more excellent way”? Among the many groups of students with which I have worked over the years, none has given me more pleasure or moral encouragement than the groups of very secular students engaged in what is loosely ...
... once called “a more excellent way”? Among the many groups of students with which I have worked over the years, none has given me more pleasure or moral encouragement than the groups of very secular students engaged in what is loosely ...
Contenido
Whats Good About It? | 73 |
How Do I Know When Ive Made It? | 98 |
The Practice of Perfection | 128 |
From What and For What? | 159 |
Ways Means and Ends | 193 |
Substance and Evidence | 233 |
Conclusion | 344 |
Notes | 357 |
Index | 365 |
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Página 147 - God, Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, Maker of all things, Judge of all men ; we acknowledge and bewail our manifold sins and wickedness, which we from time to time most grievously have committed, by thought, word, and deed, against thy Divine majesty, provoking most justly thy wrath and indignation against us. We do earnestly repent, and are heartily sorry for these our misdoings. The remembrance of them is grievous unto us; the burden of them is intolerable.
Página 137 - I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that ye shall soon utterly perish from off the land whereunto ye go over Jordan to possess it; ye shall not prolong your days upon it, but shall utterly be destroyed.
Página 234 - For just as the body is one and has many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ. For by one Spirit we were all baptized into one body— Jews or Greeks, slaves or free— and all were made to drink of one Spirit.
Página 147 - Almighty and most merciful Father, We have erred and strayed from thy ways like lost sheep. We have followed too much the devices and desires of our own hearts. We have offended against thy holy laws. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; And we have done those things which we ought not to have done; And there is no health in us.
Página 205 - Who, if he rise to station of command, Rises by open means ; and there will stand On honourable terms, or else retire, And in himself possess his own desire ; Who comprehends his trust, and to the same Keeps faithful with a singleness of aim...
Página 292 - These all died in faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Página 140 - Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had...
Página 235 - ... Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, "Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body," that would not make it any less a part of the body.
Página 278 - O GOD, Who hast prepared for them that love Thee such good things as pass man's understanding ; pour into our hearts such love toward Thee, that we, loving Thee above all things, may obtain Thy promises, which exceed all that we can desire ; through JESUS CHRIST our LORD. Amen.
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