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Topic: Vice and Virtue in Everyday Life


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In the News (Fri 25 Dec 09)

  
  We Become Atheists (first of two files)
All his life was devoted to removing the prejudice against atheism and making it an acceptable and respectable term.
I recognized that the tendency to shift the responsibility of choice is the theist way of life and the opposite, namely, the boldness and frankness to own responsibility of choice is the atheist way of life.
To be a real way of life, atheism should concern itself with all aspects of life and especially with economic and political systems because political authority and state law control and regulate social relations more than religious faith does in the modern age.
www.positiveatheism.org /india/gora01.htm   (13237 words)

  
 Feminist Ethics
To praise women on account of their great "virtue" is merely to compliment patriarchal society for having inculcated in women those psychological traits that serve to maintain it.
But whether her final view is that men's and women's diverging virtues and vices are the result of social manipulation or biological imperative, Stanton consistently maintained that what she regarded as men's inferior set of morals have set the standard for behavior in the public world.
To be sure, from the standpoint of traditional western ethics, a mother's refusal to subordinate the concrete life of her child to the abstract commands of duty or higher law indicates her underdevelopment as a moral agent.
plato.stanford.edu /entries/feminism-ethics   (10044 words)

  
 WriteDesign On-Line - Quotes
The purpose of life's experiences is to develop the eyes by which we see this inner flame, and our capacity to live its mystery.
If your everyday life seems poor, don't blame it; blame yourself; admit to yourself that you are not enough of a poet to call forth its riches; because for the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
It is very imprudent to walk through life without this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we march always in the ranks of honor.
www.writedesignonline.com /resources/quotes.html   (17321 words)

  
 Albert Einstein Quotes
I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.
One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion.
Only a life lived for others is a life worthwhile.
www.brainyquote.com /quotes/authors/a/albert_einstein.html   (3004 words)

  
 Pure Content
The passion my friend had in life and the passion of all the people who were tested to help Kimberly teaches me that pitching in and being part of a community is in our soul.
The Amazon archive is dizzying not because it unearths books that would necessarily have languished in obscurity, but because it renders their contents instantly visible in response to a search.
The project is particularly interested in drumming up participation from outside the US (we expect plenty from these shores, and need at least twice as many non-US schools to form the contest teams without duplication of country in a team).
www.purecontent.blogspot.com   (7808 words)

  
 tBlog - Dr. Forbush Thinks
But after all the searching and longing for someone to tell you what the meaning of life is, you will end up dissatisfied until you realize that it is all about your own personal purpose.
It should be completely obvious by now that America with it’s various thoughts and ideas will never be made to conform to any particular agreement as to the “meaning of life.” Many parts of society will have their own personal views on this matter.
The danger to the freedom that we currently have to examine these questions is at risk when one group is determined to impose its “world view.” And we are at even greater risk when we don’t even realize that a group is trying to do this without us knowing that it is happening.
drforbush.tblog.com   (21719 words)

  
 Read Ireland - Irish Books Reviewed
Dublin 1745-1022 Hospitals Spectable and Vice by Gary Boyd
Collision Course: Transformations in Everyday Life in Ireland by Kieran Keohane and Carmen Kuhling
Tara and the Ark of the Covenant by Mairead Carew
www.readireland.com /booknews.html   (8204 words)

  
 Physics and Astronomy Glossary
The kinetic energy is the work done by an external force to bring the body from rest to a particular state of motion.
Example: If the axis and the light direction is left-to-right (as is usually done) and the object is to the left of the lens, the object-to-lens distance is positive.
For refractive surfaces, define the surface radius to be the directed distance from a surface to its center of curvature.
www.physlink.com /Reference/Glossary.cfm   (8054 words)

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