But since for Cohen our concept of ideal ethical laws just is our idea of God (or at least a component of our idea of God), an individual's striving for moral improvement relates her to God.
Moving from the particular to the general, Mr Gallagher explains that the left is trying to destroy "every value and standard, principle and ideal, concept of God, family, honour, duty, country and decency that we hold dear".
Transformation on this scale is a type of national existential crisis and, in this case, it's entangled with the nation's historical Puritan ideal of being God's "shining city on a hill".
The effect reappears in "Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice," a film more comfortable with the mythopoeic ideal of alien gods and men who dress like bats doing battle for the soul of society.
You may not buy Mr. Crowe's happy endings, she added, "but it's a seductive ideal when all of God's creatures, great and small, buxom and blond, exist in such harmony".
Whatever the case, you may not buy his happy endings, but it's a seductive ideal when all of God's creatures, great and small, buxom and blond, exist in such harmony".
However, as a regulative ideal, the concept of God is one that theoretical reason finds useful: "The assumption of a supreme intelligence, as the one and only cause of the universe, though in the idea alone, can therefore always benefit reason and can never injure it" (1781, 1787, 560).
The goal of this course is to introduce graduate students to Varro, whose writings, though fragmentary, played a crucial role in later approaches to the early history of Rome, Roman literature, and the Latin language as well as providing an important foil to Augustine's Christian refutation of Roman ideals in City of God.
Like other ancient philosophers, Seneca discusses virtue as the ideal of "becoming like God".
Twitchell also rejected the Sant Mat ideal of ultimate oneness with God, suggesting that the goal of life is to become a "coworker" with God.
