Droit à l'energie SOS futur (Special, 2004)

The Virtue Foundation Ms. Kim Azzarelli

There is, he maintained, an intimate connection between public virtue and public happiness.

It would diminish the accountability of the Council at a time when that virtue is most needed.

Yes, and for this very cause adding on your part all diligence, in your faith supply moral excellence and in moral excellence, knowledge

And beside this, giving all diligence, add to your faith virtue and to virtue knowledge

With the new Civil Service Act in place, we are working hard to instil values of excellence and integrity.

Psychologically, this virtue implies the ability to put oneself in others' position.

Her definition of virtue focuses on the individual's happiness rather than, for example, the good of the entire society.

Statement submitted by the Virtue Foundation, a non governmental organization in consultative status with the Economic and Social Council

As one Confucian classic put it Possessing virtue will give the ruler the people. Possessing the people will give him the territory.

Indeed, public virtue made federal finance what he called the powerful cement of our union.

That virtue consisted in honoring commitments, and it would build solidarity in the new political community of the United States.

The principle underlying the Golden Shield is that as virtue rises one foot, vice rises ten.

So I said, Well, you know, you're all in this yourself. You teach it's generosity, was all I could think of. What is virtue?

If monarchs can teach their subjects to do so, then let us give at least one cheer for the remaining kings and queens.

To allow any unelected group, however virtuous and idealistic, to substitute its will for that of parliament, is an assault on the foundations of democracy.

WARSAW Ever since democracy appeared in ancient Athens, it has generated suspicion among those who believe that humanity s highest purpose is virtue, not freedom.

Alasdair MacIntyre, the famous philosopher, said that, We have the concepts of the ancient morality of virtue, honor, goodness, but we no longer have a system by which to connect them.

In the eighteenth century, Voltaire constructed an analogous argument, claiming that religion s major virtue was its social usefulness. He thus sought to subvert religion by making it purely instrumental.

In the 1999 general elections, the Virtue Party won several seats in the parliament but it was not as successful as the RP in the 1995 general elections.

But Chinese television fare, at least, no longer consists of the prudish melodramas and clumsy indoctrination programs of the Maoist past.

Yet there is almost no recognition of this basic truth in our governments or our global politics. People who speak about hunger and environmental crises are viewed as muddle headed moralists, as opposed to the hard headed realists who deal with war and peace.

Thus, the real virtue will be the one built upon people themselves, in the honest occupation of their days, in the administration of their goods, in their respect towards others, in the beautiful and instigating adventure of life.

I think that without perhaps being able to name it, we are collectively experiencing that we've come as far as we can with tolerance as our only guiding virtue.

Possessing the territory will give him its wealth. Possessing the wealth, he will have resources for expenditure.

Moreover, in a discipline that regards ingenuity as the ultimate virtue, those who engage in the grunt work of data cleaning and replication receive few rewards.

If that seems shocking today, the loss of virtue must be traced to the all pervasive permit raj, with its licensing requirements to import, produce, and invest, which grew to gargantuan proportions.

A successful economy, Bush argued, requires that people learn to take responsibility for their actions, and policies aimed at boosting home ownership would inculcate this virtue on a broader scale.

But what a liberating thing to realize that our problems, in fact, are probably our richest sources for rising to this ultimate virtue of compassion, towards bringing compassion towards the suffering and joys of others.

Despite the move toward more deontological themes by some, there continues to be an interest in virtue ethics in nursing ethics and some support for an ethic of care.

Medad blog published a sarcastic short story depicting a Muslim cleric and a Christian cleric passionately discussing virtue and interfaith understanding as each of them tries to claim a spot that allows them to peep through a crack in the wall of a women's bathhouse.

On September 10, 2004, Virtue Foundation and the United Nations NGO Section of DESA hosted the 3rd annual multidisciplinary symposium commemorating the anniversary of 9 11 in the Trusteeship Council Chamber in New York.

Part of the explanation for the higher esteem in which the IMF is now held is its recent display of intellectual flexibility a rare virtue for a big, lumbering bureaucracy.

As an NGO with special consultative status to the United Nations ECOSOC Council, Virtue Foundation is dedicated to working toward achieving the Millennium Development Goals and implementing the outcomes of the many major United Nations conferences and summits.

Europeans today have latched onto the practical side of Hamilton s argument that is, the idea that debt mutualization might be a means to cheaper credit but they have worked out neither the political institutions, nor the shared public virtue, that Hamilton deemed crucial.

The former Polish president, Aleksander Kwasniewski, had, it seemed, provided a perverse lesson in virtue when, having been caught lying about his educational credentials, protested that he did not remember whether he had actually defended his master s thesis as required to receive his degree.

Conceived in the wake of 9 11, Virtue Foundation is a public charity and NGO committed to raising awareness of prevalent global issues while initiating public discourse on rights and responsibilities within the global community from an ethical, moral, and humanitarian perspective.

The principle underlying the Golden Shield is that as virtue rises one foot, vice rises ten. Aided by systems developed by western intelligence agencies, China has forged a virtual sword that threatens to block the path to democracy.

A successful education teaches us to treat others with dignity, regardless of religion, race, origin, or gender. A significant element of a successful education is the willingness to be tolerant of others.

The notion that a self appointed set of activists, in conjunction with some governments and international agencies, can determine what a corporation should do by way of CSR contradicts the liberal notion that we should ask for virtue to be pursued, but not in a particular way.

Similarly, while Tocqueville thought that pursuing virtue as the ancients did, or having a religious faith, could sometimes elevate the soul, both conflict with the democratic ideal if they become officially prescribed in public life.