From the first scene, as the children peer eagerly at the Christmas tree through a keyhole, to the intricately constructed activities of the party, Marie's dream and the voyage to the lands of snow and sweets, Balanchine keeps us in the enchanted world of warmth and light, innocence and benevolence, order and magic, conjured by Tchaikovsky's score.
I feel like maybe ChokBar's living proof that humans need to be tricked, or to be capable of being tricked, with benevolence in order to navigate the world around us.
The soul's concern with the body gives rise to the non-rational aspect, which amounts to disorder, vice, or badness, while the co-operation between soul and intellect promotes rationality, that is, order, virtue, benevolence.
Writing recently in The Nation, and amplifying his latest book, "At the Point of a Gun," he suggested that "when you posit the fundamental benevolence of the liberal universalist order and identify the United States as guarantor of that order... you are stuck with the prospect of a virtually untrammeled use of American power".
That the Way (Dao) and its Virtue (de) were destroyed in order to create benevolence and righteousness this was the fault of the sage.
The realm of morality, like the realm of physical science, is structured by certain Fundamental Ideas: Benevolence, Justice, Truth, Purity, and Order (see 1852, xxiii).
He saw Hobbes' reduction of all other-directed motivations -- such as compassion -- to selfish motivations in disguise to deny an evident matter of fact for theoretical reasons, i.e. in order to reconcile benevolence and compassion with Hobbes' general hypothesis about human nature.
The task of the king as the protagonist of human society was to retain the benevolence of the gods in maintaining order against disorder.
Their reasons apply evaluative concepts of benevolence, righteousness, good government, and social order (zhi) that are independent of Heaven's intention.
Health workers were more insecure as a result of decentralisation due to their dependence on the benevolence of the new authorities in order to guarantee their jobs.
They believed in the preservation of the ranks and orders within society and preached philanthropic benevolence from above.
