There developed a collective ideal of devotion to the community: the city-state (polis) was everything to its citizens; the city made its citizens what they were mankind.
Interwoven into this story is a complex network of cultural ideals, including devotion to free markets, the family and evangelical Christianity.
"Even feminism is putting pressure on men to live up to the ideal of work devotion.
Although never widely practiced, suttee was the ideal of womanly devotion held by certain Brahman and royal castes.
And so if you have people who have sacrificed just a whole lot, a whole lot, in order to live up to this work devotion ideal, I think it's very hard– actually impossible– to solve the hours problem, unless you begin to talk about that work devotion ideal, and what drives it.
And one of the main things that drives the work devotion ideal is that that's one of the ways that more privileged men show that they are a real man, to be reckoned with.
Asch and Wasserman (2005, 202) have expressed a similar concern; arguing that having more control over what features a child has can pose an "affront to an ideal of unconditioned devotion".
HIS QUALITIES RECALLED Convention Address at White Sulphur Springs Dwells Upon His Devotion to Ideals.
"No union is more profound than marriage, for it embodies the highest ideals of love, fidelity, devotion, sacrifice and family," he wrote.
One of his characters, a vigilante known as Mr. A, strongly reflected Mr. Ditko's devotion to ideals propounded by novelist Ayn Rand, in which he saw the world in rigid terms of good and evil.
