Sentences with phrase «all in the moral sense»

And in my book on morality and getting these people to grow up I again bring up the example of 19th century industrialists who were incredibly rich and often rather cruel in their business lives who reinvented themselves, so a Carnegie whose business career certainly wasn't exemplary in any moral sense.

Political Life and Human Dignity Mary Ann Glendon («The Bearable Lightness of Dignity,» May) is right on target in noting that within the Christian tradition, dignity has a twofold meaning: «In its ontological sense it is a given attribute of the person, while, in its moral sense, it is a call to an end to be gradually realized.»

Others think of it as libertarian mainly in the moral sense: pivoting solely on the ego of the individual (as in the thought of Ayn Rand), her pleasures, her contentment, her will - to - power.

What, in a moral sense, do we convey when we refer to people as «selves»?

Hartshorne is not alone in this view Mary Anne Warren refers to a human being in a moral sense as «a full - fledged member of the moral community» whose traits include, but are not limited to, consciousness and the ability to reason.

For in eternity there is no sensory illusion, and so neither is there what in a moral sense is the same thing, any actual possession — of stolen goods.

In spite of the fact that everyone now agrees that this was from the imagination of Joss Whedon, we all still view as heroic the person who sacrifices their own life for the sake of others, and this heroism is understood in the moral sense.

Not quite so simple, although it is essentially correct in the moral sense.

And all the more, such a duty as that of paying poll tax to the foreign government of occupation is not regarded as a duty at all in the moral sense, but merely as the consequence of political fortune.

Janes explained that he viewed the issue in a moral sense, not racial.

While it is true that colonial exercises in state - building vary both in a practical and in a moral sense from those of contemporary international actors, these chapters provide useful historical background to the debate as well as an opportunity to look at how various exit strategies influenced the long - term trajectories for the countries concerned.

The Wind Rises approaches its events from a more lyrical and abstract standpoint, not only not particularly commenting on the events in a moral sense, but also not particularly acknowledging their existence on a direct level.

In the moral sense ~ what right do we as a society have in this country to write children off for circumstances beyond their control ~ and create a system that perpetuates inequity and produces winners and losers?

Nothing wrong in a moral sense, but it is not just about morality.

But his intent to reach further becomes clear in the second part of his argument: that current attitudes and behaviors are not only wrong in a moral sense, they are also wrong in a practical sense.

I've set out elsewhere the reasons for my reservations about CO2 being the cause but let's put that aside for a while and consider whether our production of CO2 is blameworthy in any moral sense.

In the moral sense, these rights are an individual's divine knowledge received at the time of our creation.

You have exposed my original point quite nicely with your well - intentioned concern for the business, and my point is this... We have ALL been co-opted by the sales process from the top down, from seventy - five years ago to today, without giving much real thought to just what is going down in a moral sense when the vast majority of us go into this business with thoughts of grandeur, money, fame, more money etc., etc..

Not exact matches

But The Irish Times editorialized in favor of attending, saying, «no matter how gratifying to our sense of moral superiority, a boycott will be seen as a lost opportunity for face time with the world's most important leader.»

It won't «serve justice» in some moral or cosmic sense.

«He's an egomaniac devoid of all moral sense» ---- said the society woman dressing for a charity bazaar, who dared not contemplate what means of self - expression would be left to her and how she would impose her ostentation on her friends, if charity were not the all - excusing virtue ---- said the social worker who had found no aim in life and could generate no aim from within the sterility of his soul, but basked in virtue and held an unearned respect from all, by grace of his fingers on the wounds of others ---- said the novelist who had nothing to say if the subject of service and sacrifice were to be taken away from him, who sobbed in the hearing of attentive thousands that he loved them and loved them and would they please love him a little in return ---- said the lady columnist who had just bought a country mansion because she wrote so tenderly about the little people ---- said all the little people who wanted to hear of love, the great love, the unfastidious love, the love that embraced everything, forgave everything, and permitted everything ---- said every second - hander who could not exist except as a leech on the souls of others.»

House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tweeted that Congress had a «moral responsibility» to take «common sense action» to prevent «the daily tragedy of gun violence in communities across America.»

Religious believers are likely to get further in discourse with the current generation of secular academics by 1) continually demonstrating, as Posner himself seems to intuit, that only a moral theory founded on God can actually «work,» in the sense of bridging the gap between «is» and «ought»; and 2) demonstrating the inherent self «contradictions of the moral theories advocated by the «secular liberals.»

In his historical blindness and moral excitability, today's same - sex marriage advocate resembles no one so much as the temperance woman who, one century ago, encouraged a social change contrary to good sense and human nature.

You don't have to be a believer to have a moral compass; Morality it is given to all through Natural Revelation that we perceive with built - in functions, i.e. Basic Instincts, Intuition & Common Sense.

One opinion that makes any sense to me, out of hundreds, that's sad both for muslim and christian civilization... why one has to turn to some farytales characters and holy books in order to live a normal, productive and moral life?

Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.

I can't really trust anyone who says that you have to be religious in order to have a moral code or a sense of compassion.

I would rather cultivate a strong intuitive sence of judgment and understand the root of morals from within that to live by a very limited and conflicted set of rules such as in the KUran or Bible and never cultivate a good sense of judjment or a moral sense.

I would not say the moral values are «objective» in the sense you may mean, because clearly moral values change over time.

As such, it would make sense to invite them to a conference on, say, religion in the schools, but not one that gathers moral perspectives.

The question of allegiance is a pressing one for the Jesse Jacksons of the black church who must decide who they ultimately represent: the black community, a coalition of ethnic groups, the Democratic Party or a sense of moral right in the universe.

I believe that human actors who fail to give pride of place to moral boundaries that must never be crossed, such as the direct killing of the innocent, and who instead are ready to see their obligations in terms of moving beyond them in favor of «good results,» will be harder put «to take seriously the role that divine authority plays in morality»; for they will to that extent lose a sense of the moral limits that remind us of our finitude and anticipate consideration of a law of our being that is not one of our making.

But the most frequently voiced feeling in the recollections was the sense that some sort of a moral demand had been placed upon the ministers: «The church had an obligation to be involved in the voter rights struggle.»

«From this history of the Bible in early American history,» Noll writes in his concluding chapter, «the moral judgment that makes the most sense to me rests on a difference between Scripture for oneself and Scripture for others.»

Depending on circumstance, anything can become legitimate and even necessary; anything can become moral in the new sense of the term.

Suffice it here to repeat Agatha's assessment that «we've just witnessed a miracle,» not in the sense of an impossible happening, but in the sense of a revelation of the eternal sacred moral order in the temporal fallen human order.

There are ways to be able to reason morality as objective (not in the usual religious sense however) without attributing it to a higher moral authority (god).

Instead, and I don't even understand why I need to be telling you this, just let common sense serve as your moral compass and devote your time and resources to activities that actually benefit your fellow man in tangible, practical ways.

What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

Then, Jesus is in no sense making a moral valuation or announcing a divine intervention or a coming judgment; he simply describes the reality of what is happening.

The first point to acknowledge in considering this view is that the Church has always taught that it is incompatible with an authentic sense of moral responsibility deliberately to choose what is known to be morally wrong, however good and desirable one's further purpose might be.

Although I find his critique of authority - centered ethics convincing in the sense that it is clear that we must find moral criteria that are self - validating in human experience, his orientation here also seems two - dimensional.

While I have tried to describe rather carefully the pastoral role of a clergyman working in a mental health center as contrasted to that of a parish pastor, I think it is important that some aspects of his pastoral role be maintained diligently — his openness to all levels of pastoral conversation, his availability at all times, his understanding of and empathy with the deep yearnings of people for a sense of purpose and meaning in life, forgiveness, moral clarity, the sense of the holy, and the importance of confidentiality and continuity in relationships.

Therefore, although Jesus would be the last person to use fear as a moral weapon (except in the case of the desperately self - complacent), he did teach that life should be lived with a due sense of awe and responsibility.

In order to recapture the robust sense of moral purpose that once characterized the Christian way, we must discard contemporary notions about self - fulfillment.

I have called this the coup de culture, in which Judeo / Christian moral philosphy (which is different from religious faith), the once generally accepted value system of the West is being supplanted by a (roughly) utilitarian / hedonistic (not in the sensual sense) / scientism - radical environmentalism view of life.

The goodness is not only a moral goodness of reuniting broken relationships, but it is goodness in the sense of beauty, of awe, of magnificence.

A more ambitious set of liberals then came to claim that religion had to be private in the sense that religious believers should not bring their moral convictions to the political and legislative process.

I prefer to hope that our moral anguish will prompt us to coordinate our scientific knowledge with moral wisdom, so that the present crisis can be truly a crisis in a biblical sense — a transformation which brings new faithfulness to God and a derivative humanism.