More often, there's the thrilling sense of Kumar's comic instinct and moral fury working in harmony, to produce his most confident, compelling set yet.
He added that "a case could be made that people are traveling to these places to be pure for moral reasons — to achieve harmony in nature".
Poussin sought to refresh the great tradition of Renaissance and post-Renaissance artists grown florid and (in his eyes) frivolous by a return to a cool, considered art of harmony and moral purpose.
Conservatives like to contrast what they see as a Confucian stress on social harmony and moral rectitude with the West's emphasis on individual rights.But the rival camps are still at daggers drawn.
Socrates does not explain this connection between psychic harmony and moral virtue.
The saving grace is in vitality itself: "we have a certain instinct, that where is great amount of life, though gross and peccant, it has its own checks and purifications, and will be found at last in harmony with moral laws".
Interestingly, some non-naturalists have tried to give a Darwinian argument for a kind of non-theological pre-established harmony between our moral intuitions and the moral facts (see especially Enoch 2011).
Its plus side is that if used with wisdom, it promotes morals and good living, harmony through similarity and connection, peace, respect and tolerance of each other as well as sustainability.
The Confucians held that the remedy to China's turmoil and chaos lay in wise and morally excellent rulers that moral excellence would ripple downwards from the top and create harmony and prosperity.
The Mohist movement originated during an era of turmoil and violence, and it is possible that their conception of a unified morality is intended to comprise only the minimal moral standards needed to preserve social harmony.
