Now in his formally doctrinal Loci, St. Paul defines the Divine Pneuma and the human sarx, not merely as ontologically contrary substances, but as keenly conflicting, ethically contradictory principles.
Evil” would thus be “not the result of a transition from the good, but good and evil would” both alike “be voluntary developments from what is ethically neutral.
Beyond all question, as is evident to every thoughtful person, mankind deal one with another on the pre-supposition and principle of freedom, and of the responsibility which is ethicallyunthinkable except on that freedom.
It is a satisfaction which the ethically good thus awakens.
Formal rightness, of course, is ethically the more important, as it involves the good will; but material rightness is only less important, as without it our action is out of harmony with the universe.
According to our choices we make the ethically good our own and mould our life into its excellence and blessedness, or the contrary.
The world will not be ethicallysaved by intellect alone.
Sense and consciousness can give us only what is, not what ethically ought to be.
For, though a certain pleasure is connected with the ethically right, this specific feeling follows, and is dependent on no other perception than of the right.
Taken strictly this would build rectitude or the ethically right on the mere habits or usages of a people.
His generosity isethically contrasted with the meanness of Creon and the selfishness of Polyneices, while, artistically, the practical energy of his character serves for a foil to the stationary dignity of the chief actor.
The sentiment of these last lines is not onlyethically spirited, but it is also singularly, exquisitely Greek.
This list of ideals is miscellaneous, and ethically reducible to more fundamental concepts, but these are the terms in which men are ordinarily conscious of their most intimate purposes.
But I want to start now and get it right" "You can't ethically know any details of the work," Bartlett declared.
But is that something you ethically ought to be doing?
It will be seen that these changes, however profoundly important, were, ethically considered, either negative or quite general, relating to the tone and attitude of mind in which all duty should be done.
It is only during the last century that anethically neutral psychology has grown up; and here too, ethical neutrality has been essential to scientific success.
What is, in all cases, ethically characteristic of mysticism is absence of indignation or protest, acceptance with joy, disbelief in the ultimate truth of the division into two hostile camps, the good and the bad.
In this way, an ethically inspired system of metaphysics grew up, whose anthropocentrism was apparently warranted by the geocentrism of astronomy.
The pivotal issue, the central spring of a story must be ethically strong, so as to bear the closest inspection and to justify itself in the fierce light of class discussion.
Let your stories be ethically sound, even the stratagems and wiles making for justice, and the right sort of mercy.
That under either of its aspects the later forms of this mental process are the higher, ethically considered as well as otherwise considered, will be readily seen.
And if, the waterfall being fixed on as our goal, the way over the moor is too long for his strength, while the shorter way through the wood is not, the choice of means is no longer ethically indifferent.
If a friend who is with me has explored the sea-shore, but has not seen the waterfall, the choice of one or other end is no longer ethically indifferent.
What the later generation wanted was a god personal and divorced from physical phenomena, supreme, ethically high, but invested with warm humanity.
The conceptions of the creator grew more and more ethically good, but the lower representations continued to exist side by side with the higher.
When the image was regarded as the symbol of an ethically good Power, it was a reënforcement of pure religious feeling; when it was regarded as in itself a source of physical benefit, it was a degrading influence.
It may pass into a stolid dogmatic ignoring or denial of the existence of evil, and then tends to become inhuman and thereforeethically bad.
They were not offensive ethically to the people for the reason that they embodied the ethical conceptions and usages of their time.
Since Ahura Mazda is ethicallygood and his worship ethically pure, there is clearly in its origin hostility to low modes of worship and to materialistic ideas.
In ethically advanced religious systems, such as the Hindu and the Persian, the good Powers are connected with light and the wicked Powers with darkness, but a conflict between these adjuncts is not brought out clearly.
The hymns to Ra, the sun-god, reached the verge of monotheism and are ethically high, yet traces of the physical side of the sun appear throughout.
Among the examples cited are the American gods described by Strachey and Winslow as supreme in power and ethically good.
None of these becameethically great or approached universality.
The question of the ethically good, the esthetically beautiful and the absolutely perfect is as necessarily contained in the question of the universal truth as red, blue, and green in the rainbow, of course only in an abstract sense.
The beautiful again is divided into the artistically beautiful and the ethically beautiful, and each of these into other subdivisions.
Bowne holds that both are necessary, while formal rightness is ethically more important, though not all important.
It was said, under the subject of the economic process, that it was an ethically desirable end to have increase of goods, and of the kind wanted.
To do this is--so far as it goes--ethically as well as economically desirable.
Ethically this distribution had somewhat the effect of group morality in that it minimized the individual and magnified the corporate body of which he was a part.
Subject to the important qualifications to be made below under this and the succeeding sections, we note first that the supply of needs and wants by industry and commerce is ethically a good.
But if a friend who is with me has explored the sea shore, but has not seen the water fall, the choice of one or other end is no longer ethically indifferent.
Even though a factor of production be, like land or labor, a sine qua non of production, it does not follow that the owner of that factor gets his proper, or ethically just share, under the laws of economic imputation.
That man will continue to evolve ethically can scarcely be doubted, but it can be doubted with good right that he will continue to seek to fulfill his needs by rites designed to enlist superhuman agents in his behalf.
Was this not because man and human society had evolved ethically and socially?
Let us examine the consequences of this assumption of an omnipotent, omniscient and ethically perfect agent who acts in nature and in human history.
Assume an omnipotent, omniscient and ethically perfect deity, and it follows that, when facts do not square with your sense of justice, you must either suspect the individual of secret sins or proclaim that God's ways are past finding out.
The truth of the matter is that man grew faster ethically than he did intellectually.
The query will not down, Why does this omnipotent and ethically perfect deity permit such a being to exist to work havoc amongst his children?
He may expand his sympathies until, like Schiller, he is ready to “bestow a kiss upon the whole world” and yet remainethically passive.
It disciplines man and makes him efficient on the naturalistic level, but leaves him ethically undisciplined.
A man ceases to be ethically passive only when he begins to work in the Aristotelian sense, that is when he begins to put the brake on temperament and impulse, and in the same degree he tends to become ethically efficient.
A man may pursue power with the energy of a Napoleon and yet remain ethically passive.
A terrible danger thus lurks in the whole modern programme: it is a programme that makes for a formidable mechanical efficiency and so tends to bring into an ever closer material contact men who remain ethically centrifugal.
An energetic material working does not mend but aggravate the failure to work ethically and is therefore especially stupid.
He may absorb whole encyclopædias and remain ethically passive.
However, to grow ethicallyis not to sink back but to struggle painfully forward.
But this system, though based on Materialism and Egoism, was yet intended as ethically constructive.
Thus for the non-pacifist it is ethically acceptable to use lawful violence against unlawful violence; for the pacifist, violence against any personality is never ethically justified.
In its attempt to differentiate between them, it makes no pretense of determining which of the several pacifist positions is ethically most valid.
When I refer to Ardistan as the land of the ethically low and Jinnistan as the land of the high, nobly thinking people, it could not require an almost academic education to see what I mean when I describe a journey from Ardistan to Jinnistan.
It is simply the ancient formula for what every mind that is ethically trained recognises in the world to-day.
All the prophets reach their greatest heights of sublimity in preaching this ethically noble doctrine; and the love to God which Deuteronomy demands is to be exhibited in reverent obedience to moral law.
Its essential function is that of presenting the conditions which sanction and stimulate our ethically and economically determined purposes.
Nor, similarly, could the actions springing from this state of what may be called Impersonal Consciousness be either ethically good or bad in relation to the creature which performed them.
If Righteousness—to use that term for all kinds of action ethically right—is to be followed in the interests of life, how can it ever be required that much suffering, and even death itself may have to be faced for its sake?
That, under either of its aspects, the later forms of this mental process are the higher, ethically considered as well as otherwise considered, will be readily seen.
His act of selling is morally justifiable, and forbidding him to sell without a license is morally unjustifiable--is an interference with his due liberty which is ethically unwarranted.
What the ethically bad is follows from what has already been said.
From this standpoint, he combats Socialism as proposing impossible ideals, since it presupposes ethically perfect men as governing and being governed by the laws, and since it disposes of the freedom of the individual.
From the instincts of self-preservation and self-propagation in their most primitive forms, the ethically bad is produced, and offers fierce resistance to harmonizing influences.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ethically" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
