Sentences with phrase «about moral principles»

Tell the reader about your failures and successes, about your moral principles and lifestyle.

To battle the cyberbullying problem effectively, Shariff suggests, schools should use instances of cyberbullying as an opportunity to revisit the values and beliefs of the school and take measures that educate students about moral principles.

Watch video and learn about the moral principle, respect the religious beliefs of others, from The Way to Happiness moral code book, based on common sense.

Not exact matches

To his credit, Ford's assertion here has the whiff of moral principle about it.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

He spoke twice about «the moral force of non-violence,» referred repeatedly to self - determination and insisted that «our support for these principles is not a secondary interest.»

If, however, it is proposed not as a preference but as a principle, it gravely distorts moral deliberation about the use of force in the service of justice.

In this connection it must be clearly realized from the start that the belief of the Church, the object of its teaching office, contains both statements about divine realities such as the blessed Trinity, the Incarnation of the Logos, grace, redemption etc., and equally clear and equally obligatory statements about man's correct moral principles.

The distinctively modern conception of natural law emerged as an effort to articulate common moral principles notwithstanding disagreement about the highest or inclusive good.

Indeed, ad hoc engagements in discourse always presuppose this widest possible discourse because any argument about the validity of social prescriptions is potentially an argument about the most general moral principles and thus about social action generally.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

The principle constituting this universal social practice is itself meta - ethical, in the following sense: the social action prescribed is explicitly neutral to all moral disagreement.4 On the face of it, one might object, a prescription of universal rights can not be explicitly neutral to all such disagreement because it is not explicitly neutral to disagreement about the principle itself.

Because we can not directly observe the behavior of biblical people or interview them about their moral values and principles, it is all the more important to study the biblical forms of moral discourse — the many ways in which these values and judgments are expressed.

Although space will not permit exploration of the point here, it is important to note that Christian thought about just war predated the rise of the modern state system in the 17th century, and rests on fundamental moral principles not essentially tied to that system.

... but we have not been taught to live in the Kingdom, but rather fantasize about it, while sitting in a pew learning a moral or principled derivative skimmed off the side.

Waugh understood that this search was all about the actual, raw fact of the Crucifixion really happening: the Christian faith is not a set of moral principles, or a myth and some lovely traditions, but the truth, rooted in history.

Personally, I find Christians that only care about preserving their moral supremacy at the cost of everyone else to be a far greater evil than same gender oriented individuals seeking equal treamtent in a country founded on the principles of freedom and equality.

Surely even the unchurched would respond positively to expression of conviction on moral principles, even if they disagreed about the obvious applications: e.g., idolatry and Watergate.

But «a moral discussion is inconclusive and even trivial, if it leaves out the question of its application,» as Gregory Vlastos has said.13 In order to be as specific as possible about this approach to Christian social philosophy I shall outline in arbitrary fashion five general principles which I suggest can be supported by the evidence of human experience as being necessary guides to the conditions under which the Good Society can grow.

Many of us who have written about Rawls» argument have noted that the people behind his famous «veil of ignorance» are a peculiar kind of people (i.e., people very much like John Rawls) and therefore can hardly serve as the normative deliberators producing universal moral principles.

Hence we require a structure of moral and legal principles with the agencies of courts, legislatures, and political processes which establish laws in the light of the judgment of the people about their needs.

We are not using God's Word, the Bible, when trying to educate people, Christians and non-Christians, about what God has to say about caring for the poor, racism (a taboo subject in many evangelical circles), and articulating moral principles like the immoral budget proposed by Ryan - Romney as well as many other societal issues.

The Christian «vision» that frames this principle disposes practical thinkers to adopt a «realist» stance in public life, resisting both naïve illusions about the possibilities for human goodness and cynical dismissals of moral accountability.

William Glasser captured the sum and substance of the quest for our own day as early as 1969 when he stated that «certain moral values can be taught in school if the teaching is restricted to principles about which there is essentially no disagreement in our society» (emphasis added).

The increasing humaneness and inwardness of moral life under the influence of the great prophets and Jesus is illustrated in the changing ideas about forgiveness of enemies: In the older strata of documents, retaliation was distinctly taught as the proper principle of legal procedure — «Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot, burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.»

If you do indeed have the moral and intellectual high ground, how about demonstrating the principles of acceptance you seem to value so much.

Regardless of how the question is finally settled by the Magisterium, I hope that Neuhaus will be less judgmental about those who believe that the Nancy Cruzan decision was moral and in accord with traditional Catholic moral principles.

Hicks omits criteria for making normative judgments about what levels of inequality are just — normative criteria that Christian ethicists of an earlier generation called «middle axioms» between broad theological and moral principles and policy judgments.

Although the terms political philosophy and political theory are used rather indiscriminately, those who think of themselves as political philosophers tend to link what they do closely to philosophical and moral principles; while those who call themselves political theorists tend to appeal to facts about the world and to the way in which the structures and processes of social and political life limit the possibilities for the realisation of those principles by political agency.

The dialogue immediately preceding Diana's noble charge, in which the well - meaning but decidedly mortal Steve Trevor tells her to forget about the plight of villagers trapped on the other side of No Man's Land, reinforces her character's guiding moral principle — to protect the innocent — while her calm, confident stride as mortars explode all around her wordlessly conveys both her courage and naïveté.

How can schools inspire and teach students to be moral people — to care about and take responsibility for others, to think clearly about and pursue justice, to sacrifice for important principles?

In the 18th century, philosopher Jeremy Betham framed the issue about animals and law in An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation.

Stop talking about violations of habeas corpus and moral principles.

Students recognise that there are issues and problems in using values and ethical principles to resolve moral problems (e.g. «you should always tell the truth») and gain skills and judgement about how to apply these ethical principles in a way which respects and furthers human rights values and principles.