Conversely self-partiality brings benevolence in line with self-love such that it balances properly in our nature.
Although self-partiality tends in the opposite direction, benevolence offsets this tendency and brings benevolent and self-partial affections in proper proportion.
Now the private company, founded by Mr. Feuerstein's grandfather in 1906, is mired in debt and facing bankruptcy amid questions about whether Mr. Feuerstein's past benevolence helped bring the company to its present precarious state.
He claims, however, to have brought truth and benevolence to some 70m people in China, and to another 30m elsewhere.
We pause to help others along the way (benevolence, and bringing others to Christ), and sometimes stumble on obstacles in the way (our sin, others' sin).
Likewise, we can understand benevolence as the virtue according to which a person is motivated to bring about the well-being of others, and is reliably successful at doing so.
According to Henry Sidgwick Sidgwickk, The Methods of Ethics, 1907), we know a priori several self-evident axioms that are objectively true, including axioms of benevolence and justice, and that lead together to the conclusion that each of us ought to do what will bring about the best consequences when their value is known by the ratio of pleasure over pain in them viewed impartially.
And if his demise didn't bring a precipitous end to his network of associates I deemed the boys' club, it would certainly spell change: His blend of benevolence and tyranny was unparalleled in his associates.
In order that the sprout of compassion and commiseration develop into ren and the tendency toward morality be brought to fruition, one must act with benevolence toward others and extend that benevolence toward all of humanity when possible.
There's certainly a twinkle in Uncle Walt's blue eyes, but it's not the glimmer of benevolence you'd expect from the man who brought joy to countless children as the creator of Mickey Mouse and the Magic Kingdom.
