beneficence

Examples of beneficent

beneficent
These overstated positions reassure patients about physicians' primary beneficent outlook while allowing inevitable compromises to accommodate difficult situations or competing principles.
It will undermine their authority because they will no longer be regarded as beneficent guardians by those with diverging moral visions.
Instead, it should be characterized as a beneficent act.
Specifically, it seems to me that beneficent attitudes toward strangers do not typically extend as far as our attitudes toward more intimate loved ones.
It was the beneficent gift of the civilized.
The dream of a beneficent power elite is just that.
With the advent of ' our beneficent rule ', however, subjects were freed from ' the most onerous ' of their traditional obligations to the chief, namely military service.
The founding evangelists shared this trust in the beneficent effect of trade.
Yet the criticism did not sway them from the conviction that their policy had been a wise and beneficent one.
If we opt instead for the beneficent attitude we sometimes have towards strangers, we face a different problem.
Where she is magnificently beneficent, she always works gratis.
The nature of bioethics is to be respectful, beneficent, just, and inclusive.
In contrast to beneficent acts, however, altruistic acts are optional rather than obligatory.
Both beneficent and altruistic acts are other-regarding.
On the other hand, they can be found in the "lex naturalis" of the eternal stability of the beautiful order of nature, which points to a beneficent creator.
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