Sentence examples for external goods from inspiring English sources

It focuses not only on the external goods the humanities can produce (creative thinking, good writing), but also the internal transformation (spiritual depth, personal integrity).

A man cannot fail to be completely independent if he possesses these internal and these external goods; for besides these there are no others to have.

In teaching people how to be virtuous, Antisthenes demarcated two categories of objects: (1) external goods, embracing such elements as personal property, sensual pleasure, and other luxuries; and (2) internal goods, including the truth and knowledge of the soul.

Informal learning on the other hand lacks at least one of the characteristics of formal learning and typically is indeterminate, is opportunistic, involves both internal and external goods, and is an ongoing process.

In his ethical teachings, famous because of the assaults of the Stoic philosophers, Theophrastus reiterated Aristotle's notion of a plurality of virtues with their relative vices and acknowledged a certain importance to external goods, which the Stoics held were mere luxuries for human life.

He advocated great restraint on the part of an individual tempted to take pleasure in external goods, and he encouraged his students to accept the burden of physical and mental pain that accompanies the soul's search for its own inner wealth.

And given how badly things have been going for Mr. Bush and his team on other fronts -- a poll released Thursday by the nonpartisan Pew Research Center put his approval rating at 38percentt, a new low -- they hardly have deep reserves of internal enthusiasm or external good will to draw on.

The center piece of the achievability scheme is the help provided by either the destination node with transmission capability, or an external "good samaritan" node.

A candy is an external good, because it can be pursued as a good (something to desire or worth pursuing) independently from what one is actually doing – whether he is playing chess or any other game.

But he cannot accept that moral characterisation entails moral prescription because this would commit us to a morality of commands, and to programmes for action and reform designed to achieve a merely external good.

An external Good Clinical Practice monitor will conduct regular visits to the sites, as detailed in a dedicated monitoring plan.