Humans learn morals and their religion from their parents and from the society they live in.
Not exact matches
Still, at the end of the day, when the atrocities in Bosnia and elsewhere make one despair of
human perfectibility, of moderation, of a universal
moral law based on reason, reading so fine,
learned, and humane a book is, if not a consolation, at least a relief.
The lesson to be
learned is to stop imposing
human moral values on nature and to live as part of the ecosystem in such a way that the whole flourishes.
That is, when men had
learned to understand God as a person and his will as a body of
moral teaching, they continued to recognize his supreme importance for
human life, but his actual present effectiveness became a matter of belief rather than of immediate apprehension.
Philippa has
learned the lesson of the
moral ambiguities of her own actions; she is still on a journey toward the discovery of her own identity in reaching out to love another
human being.
Second, because the anthropological account has a
moral - political intention, the stories introduce us to
human life in all its
moral ambiguity; we are meant to
learn which
human elements cause what sorts of
moral or political trouble and why.
We have
learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and
moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of
human consciousness.
In fact, all my anxieties run in the opposite direction: that, in order to affirm the uniqueness of humanity within organic nature, as well as the unique
moral obligations it entails, we will reject all evidence of intentionality, reason, or affection in animals as something only apparently purposive, doing so by reference to the most egregiously vapid of philosophical naturalism's mystifications — «instinct» — and thereby opening the way to a mechanistic narrative that, as we have
learned from an incessant torrent of biological and bioethical theory in recent decades, can be extended to
human behavior as well.
Through a curriculum based on the developmental stages of the
human being and on the integration of art and academics, our children
learn to meet the world with clear and creative thinking, compassion and
moral strength, and with the courage and freedom to act.
I am a spiritualist who believes women and children are the ones who suffer most when the basic fundamental
human rights are not adhered to in a country, and for the Rawlings family to have fought for the welfare of women and children all these years, Ghanaian women and the youth must
learn from their
moral life and the kind of unity in their marriage, and practice it,» Mama Destiny noted.
Artificial intelligence is
learning right from wrong by studying
human stories and
moral principles.
Recently, Georgia Institute of Technology computer scientist Mark Riedl has taken a radically different philosophical tack, teaching AIs to
learn human morals by reading stories.
The Askwith Forum is a series of public lectures at the Harvard Graduate School of Education featuring a wide range of topics, including early childhood, civic and
moral engagement, expanded
learning models, educating for
human rights, and international education among others.
Over the past three years, the Askwith Forum has featured a wide range of topics, including early childhood, civic and
moral engagement, expanded
learning models, educating for
human rights, and international education.
Over the past few years, the Askwith Forums have featured a wide range of topics, including early childhood, civic and
moral engagement, bullying, expanded
learning models, educating for
human rights, and international education.
The Askwith Forums have featured a wide range of topics, including early childhood, civic and
moral engagement, expanded
learning models, educating for
human rights, and international education.