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...ilization, Rousseau claims, that humans become social beings, and, concomitant with their civilization, natural man becomes corrupted with the social vices of pride, vanity, greed and servility. (summary by ej)...

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...ure that a certain decision will create. Bentham argues that certain unnecessary laws and punishments could ultimately lead to new and more dangerous vices than those being punished to begin with. He is of opinion that the concept of the individual pursuing his or her own happiness cannot be necessarily declared right, because often these individual pursuits can lead to gr...

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...g the organizations it is only fair to ask that the acceptance of the ser- vices of an auditor should be left to the discretion of the various or- gan... ...ine which robs the individual of all initiative is necessary in those ser- vices where many men must act Tiffany & Co. Fllih Avtnua md 37ili St., N«v ... ...e greatest hope of city missions. These urchins, who are often taught such vices as drinking or pickpocketing, are being brought under the influence o...

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...g, known everything, and is up in all the ways of the world. Soaked in the vices of Paris, he affects to be the fellow-well-met of the provinces. He i...

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...h ragged clothes, scanty food, fireless grates, rude manners, and debasing vices: poverty for me was synonymous with degradation. “No; I should not li... ...indeed: her character ripened and developed with fright- ful rapidity; her vices sprang up fast and rank: they were so 310 Jane Eyre strong, only cru... ...315 Charlotte Brontë bordered on riot seemed to approach me to her and her vices, and I eschewed it. “Y et I could not live alone; so I tried the comp...

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...abor force: 2.9 million (est. 1985); 41.10% industry and crafts, 57.55% ser- vices, 1.35% agriculture and forestry; 4.8% unemployed (est. 1985); an es... ...7.8% (1985 est.); Indians about 40% Labor force: 11 million (1986); 53% ser- vices, 26% agriculture, 21% industry (1981); 14% official unemployment (1... ...men 69, women 74 Literacy: about 71% Labor force: 566,000 (1985); 45.0% ser- vices, 20.0% construction, 12.0% trade, 8.6% manufacturing, 2.6% finance ... ...or force: 4.41 million (1984); 32.8% private services; 30.0% government ser- vices; 22.0% mining and manufacturing; 5.9% construction; 5.0% agricultur... ...force: 3.05 million, about 706,000 foreign workers, mostly Italian; 42% ser- vices, 39% industry and crafts, 11% gov- ernment, 7% agriculture and fore...

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...ng, coping, trying, and failing and, like them, he has his shortcomings and vices. This affinity is endearing and captivating. It helps to form a s...

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...ulated, as points of reference, almost inhuman or superhuman in their taming of the vices, avarice up front. Yet the chaos and corruption in their ...

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...ly very unreasonable for the government to go about and say ‘practice all vices’ but please be careful about it. It is unethical and shows a complac...

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...noble and the ig- noble from each other by their virtues and their [1255b] vices; for they think it reasonable, that as a man begets a man, and a beas... ... the rich, none of which arise from properties being private, but from the vices of mankind. Besides, those who live in one general community, and hav... ...urs to establish wholesome laws in a state, attends to the virtues and the vices of each individual who composes it; from whence it is evident, that t...

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...hing as an inherited specific craving. With drink inacces- sible and other vices offering his lapse may take another line. An aggressive, proud and gr... ... Gluttony, for example, becomes a much more possible habit, and many other vices tender death for the first time to the men who are gathering in and a... ... to the community or the state or the municipality, and to suppose all the vices of hu- manity concentrated in private ownership, and all the vir- tue...

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...so hypocrisy sets us on an endeavour to avoid cen- sure, by concealing our vices under an appearance of their opposite virtues. And though these two c... ...us to close the first line, the thought would be rather more proper. Great vices are the proper objects of our detestation, smaller faults, of our pit... ...haps it may be objected to me, that I have against my own rules introduced vices, and of a very black kind, into this work. To which I shall answer: f... ...ue a series of human actions, and keep clear from them. Secondly, that the vices to be found here are rather the accidental consequences of some human...

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... themselves. Some assisted the democracy by their talents, others by their vices. Louis XI and Louis XIV reduced every rank beneath the throne to the ... ...ucation in the public streets, and who are unacquainted with aught but the vices and wretchedness of society. The existence of a democracy was seeming... ...ct of annihilating its power, instead of instructing it and correcting its vices; no attempt was made to fit it to govern, but all were bent on exclud... ...l. We have gotten a democracy, but without the conditions which lessen its vices and render its natural advantages more prominent; and although we alr... ... be re- pressed, and the habits of the nation softened; there will be more vices and fewer crimes. In the absence of enthusiasm and of an ardent faith... ...barbarism. The Indian was indebted to no one but himself; his virtues, his vices, and his prejudices were his own work; he had grown up in the wild in... ...e chase. Their implacable prejudices, their uncon- trolled passions, their vices, and still more perhaps their sav- age virtues, consigned them to ine... ...in America The Indian was indebted to no one but himself; his virtues, his vices, and his prejudices were his own work; he had grown up in the wild in... ...e chase. Their implacable prejudices, their uncon- trolled passions, their vices, and still more perhaps their sav- age virtues, consigned them to ine...

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...iated with “the boys” from babyhood, and can discerningly minister to both vices or pleasantly snub the possessor. They possess, moreover, a life amon...

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...of novels and romances as a bare possibility amongst all the shameless de- vices of London swindlers, had read with religious fidelity every word of t... ...y minutes, or less. In this way he walked conscientiously through the ser- vices of the day, fulfilling to the letter every section the mi- nutest of ... ...ecoy, the disgrace no more recoiled on the god, than, in modern times, the vices or crimes of a priest can affect the pure religion at whose altars he... ...d in public life, by a second, or military education, in two separate ser- vices;—first, in the British, where he served in the Greys, and in the fort... ...e of Greece in her heroic struggle with the Sultan. At what point his ser- vices and his countenance were appreciated by the ruling persons in Greece,...

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... war or the rules or regulations prescribed for the military or naval ser- vices by authority of the President of the United States, or for resisting ...

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...ulty which apprehends, formulates, considers them). The “moral virtues and vices” make up what we call char- acter, and the important questions arise:... ...is a long list of them, with 12 The Ethics of Aristotle their correlative vices enumerated. The Doctrine of the Mean here takes a form in which it ha... ... portance than is usually ascribed to it. In the “Table of the Virtues and Vices,” each of the virtues is flanked by two op- posite vices, which are r... ...ficance. Books III-V are occupied with a survey of the moral vir- tues and vices. These seem to have been undertaken in order to verify in detail the ... ...o the feeling. And so on of the rest. Now Feelings neither the virtues nor vices are, because in right of the Feelings we are not denominated either g... ...we are not denominated either good or bad, but in right of the virtues and vices we are. [Sidenote: 1106a] Again, in right of the Feelings we are neit... ...ely but for being so in a particular way), but in right of the virtues and vices we are. Again, both anger and fear we feel without moral choice, wher... ...t of the Feelings we are said to be moved, but in right of the virtues and vices not to be moved, but disposed, in a certain way. And for these same r... ...o acts unjustly or dissolutely does not wish to attain the habits of these vices: for if a man wittingly does those things whereby he must become unju...

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...ould not be corrected without humiliation, clung pertina- ciously to their vices, even till the last overthrow of the city. We may now clearly see fro... ...from? He who seeks to regulate everything by law, is more likely to arouse vices than to reform them. It is best to grant what cannot be abolished, ev... ...uxury, envy, avarice, drunkenness, and the like, yet these are tolerated – vices as they are – because they cannot be pre- 58 A Theologico-Political ...

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...of John Quincy Adams 19 weaknesses, which no institution can strengthen; to vices, which no legislation can correct. Hence, it be comes obvious that...