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
- and dedicated to the principles of Charity, Unity, Fraternity, and ... charter reflects the values of Charity, Unity, Fraternity, and ...33 KB (5,125 words) - 23:21, 3 March 2023
- Virtue denotes a certain perfection of a power. Now a thing's ... theological virtues: faith, hope, and charity. These are supernatural ...35 KB (5,231 words) - 18:38, 30 April 2023
- true or false. For if the claim that "charity is good" means nothing ... not entail that they are correct simply in virtue of believing it. Suppose ...30 KB (4,814 words) - 21:19, 9 November 2022
- she founded several Sunday schools and charity schools in her parish. To ... was inspired to write The Œconomy of Charity, which describes how readers ...55 KB (8,296 words) - 03:26, 23 December 2022
- as their names suggest, illustrate the ways of virtue. In particular, Dowel illustrates the virtue of conscience, Dobet the virtue of grace, and Dobest ...19 KB (3,143 words) - 11:09, 10 May 2023
- that rights should be respected in virtue of humans possessing them ... to imperfect duties such as acts of charity). Whether these duties are ...21 KB (3,233 words) - 01:39, 15 December 2022
- humble, and sacrificial life of Christian virtue, the values of which in turn ... her husband in his many duties, organized charity events, and still continued ...12 KB (1,894 words) - 02:29, 5 November 2022
- by faith alone; instead both faith and charity are necessary for salvation ... through the conjunction of faith and charity in a person, and that the ...37 KB (5,627 words) - 17:59, 13 February 2024
- city and it was also planned to serve as a charity school. The fundraising ... Streets, took in its first students. A charity school also was opened in ...31 KB (4,374 words) - 13:08, 3 May 2023
- systems that exploit through appeals for charity ("mooching") and ... for mysticism, religion, and compulsory charity, all of which she believed ...20 KB (2,901 words) - 07:26, 23 August 2023
- a society of laymen and priests devoted to charity and spiritual sanctification ... The Council, by virtue of its actions, repudiated the pluralism of ...22 KB (3,262 words) - 08:30, 10 January 2024
- which dictated actions that accorded with virtue. Some of the early Church ... law, which dictated actions that accorded with virtue. Ibid. ...24 KB (3,647 words) - 15:20, 11 November 2022
- are of a different quality and superior in virtue of their kind. Higher pleasures ... innocent people. By contrast, acts of charity are morally praiseworthy ...37 KB (5,971 words) - 13:49, 3 May 2023
- but acceptable to the Arians due to the charity shown in theological matters ... Ambrose's supposed charity toward the Arians never materialized ...27 KB (4,266 words) - 02:47, 24 July 2023
- be scandalous by self-styled paragons of virtue: Le Jardin des supplices ... * Le foyer (1908) (Charity) * Dialogues tristes (Eurédit, 2005) ...14 KB (2,130 words) - 23:51, 17 November 2022
- concept of beauty, which is preeminently a moral virtue (cf. Isaiah 61:10, I Peter 3:3-4). The above passage from Proverbs 31:10-31, a grand description ...19 KB (2,937 words) - 10:19, 26 September 2023
- to earth to aid them. The Tsimshian believed that charity and purification of the body (either by cleanliness or fasting) was the route to the afterlife. ...27 KB (4,093 words) - 18:32, 2 May 2023
- continues to shine forth as an example of virtue for all. Many healings occurred ... The Ascetic Life, The Four Centuries on Charity (Ancient Christian Writers ...20 KB (3,077 words) - 01:06, 9 November 2022
- freedom, personal choice and responsibility; and charity. ... to normal duties and to its emphasis on charity and cheerfulness. Additionally ...43 KB (6,418 words) - 15:47, 27 March 2024
- often represented him as a model of virtue and styled him the Wise. ... science, education, culture, art, for charity, humanistic and public activities ...19 KB (2,940 words) - 10:15, 22 May 2023
- been etched. Praiseworthy activities, including charity and pilgrimage to sanctuaries, and their subsequent rewards, appear. The pains of hell and ...30 KB (4,409 words) - 19:44, 20 November 2023
- Luzhin, and Sonya's sacrifice of her virtue and her place in "honorable ... to Raskolnikov with his random acts of charity. He fronts the money for ...21 KB (3,343 words) - 06:23, 11 January 2024
- See Cajetan Baluffi, The Charity of the Church, trans. Denis Gargan ... us to be humble, by making us see that our virtue does not depend on our work ...31 KB (4,708 words) - 04:44, 3 August 2022
- And we, especially at this moment, in virtue of our universal pastoral ... new gifts of which the first and highest is charity. Behold, this is ...53 KB (8,198 words) - 14:42, 3 May 2023
- overstatement. She also gave generously to charity and sewed shirts for the ... in rejecting Henry. Some say it was virtue, and others say it was shrewd ...31 KB (5,055 words) - 06:48, 28 July 2023
- Her birth in a charity ward and unstable early life as a foster child ... She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in the charity ward of the Los ...30 KB (4,676 words) - 15:56, 6 November 2022
- who practices what Rand calls the “virtue of selfishness”: a man ... egoist and I donate a large sum to a charity because it gives my company ...28 KB (4,468 words) - 23:59, 12 February 2024
- "Service Learning goes beyond charity or volunteerism. It encourages those involved in service ministry to ask the hard questions and search ...26 KB (3,814 words) - 19:49, 21 April 2023
- which depend directly on begging, or the charity of the people for their ... was not traditionally regarded as a virtue in Melanesia. ...38 KB (6,105 words) - 20:00, 9 November 2022
- Afro-tribal, and Indian classical. By virtue of that variety and his interfusion ... Sri Lanka and Malaysia and performed in a charity concert to raise funds for ...25 KB (3,368 words) - 16:17, 12 February 2024
