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In trying to account for the way British newspapers sneered at her good intentions, he said: “My own and only explanation is that genuine goodness is threatening to those at the opposite end of the moral spectrum.”
Technocracy was Keynes’s faith: skilled experts designing and fine-tuning institutions out of the goodness of their hearts to make possible general prosperity -- as Keynes, indeed, did at Bretton Woods where the World Bank and IMF were created.
It is hard to imagine that anyone thinks of goodness as a problem, but Charles Darwin did.
The little worker bees that sacrificed themselves to protect their hives – the ultimate example of animal goodness – kept Darwin up at night.
Darwin wasn’t the only scientist who was fascinated with the question of the evolution of goodness.
Huxley argued that all goodness could be traced to blood kinship, while Kropotkin argued that goodness and blood kinship were completely divorced from one another - one had nothing to do with the each other.
He began by defining three terms: the genetic relatedness between individuals (labeled r), the cost of an act of goodness (c), and the benefit that a recipient obtained when someone was nice to him or her (b).
Another large chunk of goodness falls under the category of “reciprocity.”
If goodness is a problem, then the answer – or at the least part of the answer – can be found in evolutionary biology.
How to do this is left up to the new leaders, who are often credited with goodness and powers of persuasion they never had and never will have.
From the ethical point of view, consumption is a means to goodness, and the market system is the most efficient engine for lifting people out of poverty: it is doing so at a prodigious rate in China and India.
This is not so much a criticism of the private sector; after all, drug companies are not in business out of the goodness of their hearts, and there is no money in preventing or curing the diseases of the poor.
In poverty-stricken Bolivia, Francis criticized “the mentality of profit at any price, with no concern for social exclusion or the destruction of nature,” along with “a crude and naive trust in the goodness of those wielding economic power and in the sacralized workings of the prevailing economic system.”
Then, thank goodness, the idea of a variable-geometry Union seemed to lose urgency when Tony Blair came to power.
Concerns about the deleterious effects of competition have always existed, even among those who are not persuaded that government diktat can replace markets, or that intrinsic human goodness is a more powerful motivator than monetary reward and punishment.
Maduro will not leave power out of the goodness of his heart.
'You are entering upon a time of life,' the priest went on, 'when you must choose your path and keep to it, so pray that God in His goodness may help you and have mercy on you!' he concluded.
'May the Lord our God Jesus Christ, in the goodness and bounty of His love for mankind, pardon thee...'; and having pronounced the absolution, the priest blessed him and let him go.
Why do you say it is impossible?''Because it means going goodness knows where, and by what roads! to what inns!
'If goodness has a cause, it is no longer goodness if it has a consequence – a reward, it is also not goodness.
Therefore goodness is beyond the chain of cause and effect.
And it now seemed to him that there was not one of the dogmas of the Church which could disturb the principal thing – faith in God, in goodness, as the sole vocation of man.
Above all, he could not agree because he, together with the people, did not know and could not know wherein lay the general welfare, but knew definitely that the attainment of this welfare was only possible by a strict fulfilment of the law of goodness which is revealed to every man, and therefore could not desire or preach war for any kind of general aims.
'Yes, the one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Deity is the law of goodness disclosed to men by revelation, which I feel within myself and in the confession of which I do not so much unite myself as I am united, whether I will or not, with other people in one community of believers which is called the Church.
And just as astronomers' conclusions would be idle and uncertain were they not based on observations of the visible sky in relation to one meridian and one horizon, so would my conclusions be idle and uncertain were they not founded on that understanding of goodness which was and will be the same always and for every one, and which has been revealed to me by Christianity and can always be verified in my soul.
My reason will still not understand why I pray, but I shall still pray, and my life, my whole life, independently of anything that may happen to me, is every moment of it no longer meaningless as it was before, but has an unquestionable meaning of goodness with which I have the power to invest it.'
If you would have the goodness to order Camus, the grocer, to let me have a little soap, it would really be more convenient for you, as I needn't trouble you then."
Eh! goodness me! an article gets about; it is talked of; it ends by making a snowball!
But during his demonstration the cider often spurted right into their faces, and then the ecclesiastic, with a thick laugh, never missed this joke—"Its goodness strikes the eye!"
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