Sentence examples for ideal of man from inspiring English sources

These could be the classical virtues courage, temperance, justice, and wisdom that promoted the Greek ideal of man as the "rational animal"; or the theological virtues faith, hope, and love that distinguished the Christian ideal of man as a being created in the image of God.

In "Grammars of Creation," for example, he tells us that "the classical and Judaic ideal of man as 'language animal,' as uniquely defined by the dignity of speech... came to an end in the antilanguage of the death camps".

Who wants to risk the charge of insensitivity by objecting that the Holocaust had nothing to do with the "ideal of man as 'language animal' "? Steiner's second method for maintaining the aura of emergency involves God.

An heir of the old sages of former times, Socrates held that the supreme ideal of man, and hence of education, was not the spirit of efficiency and power but the disinterested search for the absolute, for virtue in short, for knowledge and understanding.

Among the mendicant orders that had settled in the cities were the Dominicans (ordo fratrum praedicatorum), dedicated to promoting in their teaching, way of life, and preaching the ideal of man's self-discovery self-cultivation as a self-discovery self-cultivation as

"Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.

The severe life in mountain villages and historical battles with neighboring tribes formed an ideal of men able to distinguish themselves with physical strength, grit of character and bravery.

This idea is later countered in Ephesians 5 when the writer endorses a return to the patriarchal ideal of men ruling over their wives.

The Greeks, and their Roman successors, had a complex purpose in depicting warriors, to convey not only the virtues of warriors themselves but the ideals of Man: proportionality, grace, the brave life, the noble death.

The "Borges" who is revealed, or perhaps performed, in these two books seems like the Platonic ideal of the man of letters: a man who taught himself German because he wanted to read Schopenhauer in the original, and learned it, moreover, by reading the poetry of Heine; a man who taught himself Icelandic in order to pursue his interest in Norse sagas.

The greatest geniuses of ancient Athens and Rome had not been able to grasp that slavery was wrong, or that equality was the ideal state of man, because they were pagans: "it was necessary that Jesus Christ come to earth to make it understood that all members of the human species are naturally alike and equal".