Search results for "Charity (virtue)" - New World Encyclopedia
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- A charitable organization (also known as a charity) is a trust, company ... educational, humanitarian, or religious. A charity goes beyond giving relief ...17 KB (2,518 words) - 01:47, 4 December 2023
- the Abrahamic religions, alms are given as charity to benefit the poor. In ... a way for wealthy people to practice virtue, by offering of their wealth ...12 KB (1,965 words) - 08:19, 23 July 2023
- a part of their success as industry and virtue. All of these, he said, are ... essay, An Enquiry into the Origin of Moral Virtue. In 1723 a later edition ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 15:56, 29 September 2023
- called the Institute of the Brethren of Charity, also known as the Rosminians ... soul without seeking to undertake works of charity on his own initiative, until ...24 KB (3,716 words) - 05:44, 11 August 2023
- and consequently as that which displays virtue (arête). So right action ... Natural duties bind all of us simply in virtue of the types of creatures ...19 KB (3,122 words) - 17:23, 12 February 2024
- positive duty of beneficence by working in charity organisations on the weekends ... one’s garden on the weekend, even though charity work would bring about greater ...19 KB (2,981 words) - 00:53, 27 July 2022
- Throughout his life, King was deeply involved in charity work. He founded the Alan King Medical Center in Jerusalem, raised funds for the Nassau ...10 KB (1,490 words) - 04:26, 17 June 2023
- A virtue is a trait or disposition of character that leads to good ... happiness (eudaimonia), while lack of virtue leads to suffering and downfall ...43 KB (6,406 words) - 20:37, 3 May 2023
- had the same essence. The one essential virtue, ren (jen, benevolence, humanity ... Chapter 2, section 43). The one essential virtue, ren (jen, benevolence, humanity ...12 KB (1,847 words) - 01:17, 4 December 2023
- are consequentialism, deontology, and virtue ethics. Each of these come ... Virtue ethics was the dominant ethical tradition in ancient Greek ...23 KB (3,557 words) - 21:20, 9 November 2022
- this age, though meditation (dyana) is the virtue accorded highest value. Ashrams ... still flourished, and fittingly the virtue accorded highest value in ...16 KB (2,576 words) - 21:36, 4 June 2023
- by the efforts of scholars such as Charity Cannon Willard and Earl ... realized when her speech equates chastity, virtue, and restraint. Christine ...13 KB (2,108 words) - 21:12, 10 December 2023
- if it is morally obligatory to do x then this is in virtue of God's commanding that we do x. Thus, if God had commanded that we be cruel and dishonest ...13 KB (1,986 words) - 15:31, 29 January 2024
- poor communities in the city, through the Charity Organization Society (COS ... teachers at Oxford, Bosanquet joined the Charity Organization Society (COS ...16 KB (2,361 words) - 11:19, 28 September 2023
- too strong to be halted. He did not lack virtue, suggested by his early edicts ... was a distinct lack of love-motivated charity in the ancient world, and ...29 KB (4,399 words) - 21:10, 4 October 2022
- important: "Justice is the first virtue of social institutions, as ... Some may picture justice as a virtue — a property of people, and ...34 KB (5,251 words) - 21:23, 4 October 2022
- faith or performing acts of Christian charity, the only means through ... a reward of natural happiness for natural virtue; a reward of supernatural ...12 KB (1,931 words) - 04:09, 29 October 2022
- !Virtue |- |Lust (undesired love) |Chastity (purity) |- |Gluttony (overindulgence) |Moderation/Temperance (self-restraint) |- |Greed (avarice) ...16 KB (2,583 words) - 10:07, 26 January 2023
- through concentration upon the truth, and virtue, the individual substance ... a certain portion of their income to charity. This is considered to be ...17 KB (2,568 words) - 20:40, 9 April 2023
- in the Sentences was the identification of the virtue of charity with the Holy Spirit in Book I, distinction 17. According to this doctrine, when one ...10 KB (1,536 words) - 01:35, 24 November 2022
