Even in After Virtue (1981), MacIntyre claims that «the barbarous despotism... which reigns in Moscow can be taken to be as irrelevant to the question of the moral substance of Marxism as the life of the Borgia Pope was to that of the moral substance of Christianity» (a view not likely to be shared by such as Alexandr Solzhenitsyn). (firstthings.com)
It can make that move through a willingness simply to focus again on the questions that mark the true center, or moral substance, of the issues that give the cases in our law their moral import. (firstthings.com)
Under normal circumstances, an unprecedented petition from a key ally questioning the moral substance of a US President might have had a lasting impact. (totalpolitics.com)