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What counts as virtue in 4th-century Athens would be a ludicrous guide to proper behavior in 21st-century Toronto, and vice-versa.
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Budd Boetticher summarises the view thus: " What counts is what the heroine provokes, or rather what she represents.
What counts, however, is the location of the lesion and the functional systems ( e. g. motor, sensory, visual, etc.
After describing the actual Kronstadt rebellion, Fischer spent many pages applying the concept to subsequent former-communists — including himself: " What counts decisively is the ' Kronstadt.
What counts as " religious " or " secular " in any context is a function of configurations of power both in the West and lands colonized by the West.
What counts as law depends on what kind of authority exists to give it legal significance among those it is supposed to regulate.
What counts as " religious " or " secular " in any context is a function of configurations of power both in the West and lands colonized by the West.
What is known is that daily doses of these compounds reduce sperm counts and also severely affect the formation and maturation of sperm, causing them to be immotile.
After describing the actual Kronstadt rebellion, Fischer spent many pages applying the concept to some subsequent former communists — including himself: " What counts decisively is the ' Kronstadt.
What counts as distress requiring rescue may, of course, differ from person to person, but being trapped or at risk of drowning are emergent situations which this position assumes all humans would wish to be rescued from.
What and virtue
What possible feature could a proof and a fragrance both share in virtue of which they both count as beautiful?
In " A Proportional Response ", President Bartlet finds himself in similar circumstances ( Syrian intelligence shot down a U. S. plane in Jordan and killed numerous Americans, including a young Naval officer who the President had decided would be his personal physician ) and, seated in the White House Situation Room with his own National Security Council asks: " What is the virtue of a proportional response?
What virtue ethics refers to, rather, is a collection of normative ethical philosophies that place an emphasis on being rather than doing.
The question can be asked, " What are the counterfactual conditionals which ground the existence of objects true in virtue of?
Socrates concludes that, in the virtuous people of the present and the past, at least, virtue has been the result of divine inspiration, akin to the inspiration of the poets, whereas a knowledge of it will require answering the basic question, ' What is virtue ?'.
" What men dislike is to be orphans, to have little virtue, to be as carriages without naves ; and yet these are the designations kings and princes use for themselves.
What she was observing was the way the term was becoming a European obsession-part of the Enlightenment drive to foster the individual's capacity to recognise virtue at a visceral level.
What was to become the definite dividing line between Castile and the Crown of Aragon was finally agreed by virtue of the Sentencia Arbitral de Torrellas ( 1304 ), amended by the Treaty of Elche ( 1305 ), which assigned Orihuela ( also Alicante and Elche ) to the Kingdom of Valencia, while Murcia went to the Crown of Castile, so drawing the final Southern border of the Kingdom of Valencia.
What and Athens
What then ensued was a period, referred to as the Pentecontaetia ( the name given by Thucydides ), in which Athens increasingly came to be recognized as an Athenian Empire, carrying out an aggressive war against Persia.
Oder nähere Begründung der im ersten Bande der Geschichte der Halbinsel Morea während des Mittelalters aufgestellten Lehre über die Enstehung der heutigen Griechen ( What influence did the occupation of Greece by the Slavs have on the fate of the city of Athens and of the countryside of Attica?
What is now the orthodox view of the piece, however, namely that it depicts the Greater Panathenaic procession from Eleusis to Athens, was mooted by Stuart and Revett in the second volume of their Antiquities of Athens, 1787.
What and would
What irritated Miriam was that Wright had told the papers about a reasonable offer he had made, which he considered she would accept `` when she tires of publicity ''.
What evidence is available would seem to indicate that Brooks, unlike his older brother Henry, had most of the methodological vices usually found in the amateur.
What better affirmative step could be taken to this end than repeal of the Connally amendment -- an act which could expose the United States to no practical risk yet would put an end to our self-judging attitude toward the court, enable us to utilize it, and advance in a tangible way the cause of international law and order??
What was missing in the Governor's argument, as in so many similar arguments, was a premise which would enable one to make the ethical leap from what might be militarily desirable to what is right.
What is missing is work that would answer, presumably by the use of survey methods and Guttman-type attitude scales, such questions as these: What are the components of the feeling-state described as alienation??
What matters is that while Fromm's reading of the data is not the only one possible, it is precisely the one we would expect from a writer who earnestly believes that every man can and ought to be happy and satisfied.
What could rescue the bill would be some quick progress on a bill amending the National Defense Education Act of 1958.
What was lacking was a real sense of phrase, the kind of legato singing that would have added a dimension of smoothness to what is, after all, a very oily character.
But I smelled the coffee, and thinking, What the hell, live dangerously, I decided I would scald my worries away.
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