Sentences with phrase «as moral imperatives»

As we have argued here, one can understand climate change as a problem that needs addressing without believing that the problems stand as moral imperatives that demand special form of politics.

«All the seemingly divisive decisions — pain meds in labor / newborn sleep arrangements / feeding — are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides.

We can, and must, do something to expand opportunity for every young person — not simply as a moral imperative but out of economic necessity and competitiveness.

• Note this, from the announcement of a press call on the unions» desired card - check legislation, when the bill was before Congress: «Prominent interfaith leaders, including Rev. Jim Wallis of Sojourners, Kim Bobo of Interfaith Worker Justice, Bishop Greg Rickel, and Rabbi Mordechai Liebling, will hold a press conference call to talk about restoring workers» freedom to organize as a moral imperative and civil and human right.»

When Obama invoked Jesus to support same - sex marriage, framed health care as a moral imperative to care for «the least of these,» and once urged people to read their Bible but just not literally, he was invoking another Christian tradition that once dominated American public life so much that it gave the nation its first megachurches, historians say.

Now, while few Christians I know would argue that segregation is moral, I don't know too many who see it as a moral imperative.

If a boy is raised in a culture that teaches «Do not murder» as a moral imperative, that culture may give him the tools to understand his evil impulses and, one hopes, to master them.

The next stage in our pilgrimage is not only to exorcise the mortal sin of nuclear genocide, but to promote the nascent right to peace both as a human right and as a moral imperative to ensure humanity's survival.

«We see the ongoing transition to a sustainable food and agricultural sector not only as a moral imperative, but also as an incredible business opportunity,» said Draijer.

What's more, fascism regards violence as a moral imperative; which is distinct from other ideologies which accept the use of violence as a means to an end, but do not promote violence in itself as morally good.

He cited the campaign as a moral imperative for the good of society and the family.

«Wherever I am, I just see a billion hungry people as a moral imperative to get to work,» she says.

Life must be felt as a moral imperative that flows through each person in every moment.

After Congress passed the historic law, educating all of America's children well gained momentum as a moral imperative... The reformers insisted upon raising academic standards for all students and ensuring that students of all backgrounds meet them.

Educators must understand the history and context of American public education, including institutional racism and discrimination, as well as the moral imperative to ensure equity of outcomes, opportunities and resources for the most vulnerable students.

For example, online ads might reduce the view of veg eating as a moral imperative.

We believe in spaying and neutering (also known as «fixing») as a moral imperative, and all our animals are surgically altered before they are adopted.

However, he means that as a moral imperative, not the Modern's affirmation of subjectivity and multiplicity.

What was striking about the summit wasn't only the commitment to a new kind of international cooperation from these leaders, but also how many saw action to address climate change not only as a moral imperative, but also as an economic opportunity for their jurisdiction.

It's time for all of us to get serious about divesting from coal and transitioning to a cleaner economy, not only as a moral imperative, but as a prudent step toward avoiding financial harm.

Not exact matches

But, as John Paul, Havel, and others said at the beginning of the revolution and say now, it was above all a matter of people discerning the possibility and moral imperative of «living in truth» and «calling good and evil by name.»

But such virtues as compassion, respect, and toleration are shared by morals and manners, and hence form the basis of imperatives of ethics, as well as of etiquette.

The essential moral and theological objections to such a characterization would be with the adverbs «completely» and «entirely,» which are necessary to the materialist metaphysic but render the latter unhelpful as a foundation for any coherently imperative human moral sensibility (including environmental stewardship).

How each occasion chooses so as to maximize the importance of divinity for its own becoming constitutes its moral imperative.

Once God has ceased to exist in human experience as the omnipotent and numinous Lord, there perishes with him every moral imperative addressed to man from a beyond, and humanity ceases to be imprisoned by an obedience to an external will or authority.

Yet mere «sociality,» even with a conscience grounded in evolutionary imperatives, does not at all mean that nature has created a definite moral standard, such as natural law.

Thus constituted as a universal religious analogy, secular England assumes a moral imperative for all muhajirin, «emigrants,» and is thus an apt analogue to the Medina of the first Muslim emigrants.

And, as Smith notes, a problem with mere prudentialism is that its adoption is imprudent «because if people realize that the point of «morality» is really to get what we want, then people will lose their incentive to respect the moral - prudential imperatives that prudence itself imposes whenever those imperatives seem to impede us from getting what we want.»

(As the New Testament scholar Dale Allison has neatly put it, «The First Gospel is about a figure who imaginatively and convincingly incarnates his own moral imperatives.»)

A more robust theological focus will bring to light religion's profound contribution to a world in need: not merely consensus on moral imperatives, as crucial as this is, but hope in the face of moral impotence and profound evil, confidence in otherworldly aid in this life, the courage to change, and even holy fear.

Drawing upon the Western, Judeo - Christian tradition, the authors remind us that work not only defines who we are, but that it is a moral imperative as well.

This is not to be taken as meaning that there was either any vagueness about the true nature of moral action or any relaxation of the moral imperative.

Within the order of the ethos of Torah — also conceived of as divine word — the prophet would give voice to the moral imperative.

Matthew 25 points to a moral imperative to care for the sick, and as a country we are doing a better job of this than four years ago.

So we go on blindly as a culture in our search for goodness, oblivious of new moral imperatives.

At the root of the disagreement about perfection, I think, is the fact that we sometimes forget that according to Christianity the purpose of moral imperatives is not to make people righteous, but to show them their sin (as Paul taught in Galatians).

For those who still cling to their now fully discredited religious reservations Obama assures them that he offers this dismissal of their views as a «person of faith»; likewise, for those who still insist there is any moral uncertainty, he comforts them with the simplistic platitude that the only relevant moral imperative is our «work to ease human suffering».

It is not an American belief that free government is inevitable, only that it is possible, and that its possibility can be realized only when the people as a whole are inwardly governed by the recognized imperatives of the universal moral law.

We go to work, socialize, and share public space with many people who reject the moral law's authority over their lives, people who regard abortion as a fundamental right or who think sexual liberation an imperative.

Certainly he will be forced to renounce every moral imperative with a transcendent ground, and this means that he must forswear the possibility of an absolute moral law, and at best look upon all forms of moral judgment as penultimate ways which must inevitably act as barriers to the full realization of energy and life.

There are moral imperatives that are regarded as «universal», eg injunctions against capital murder, but even this is not truly universal.

As a gay man, he felt an added moral imperative to tell Matthew's story.

The universal moral imperatives of scholastic thought, which were inferred from the uniquely spiritual nature of man, were attacked as unreasonable by materialistic humanism, and modern Catholic thought was no longer sure of its own philosophical ground.

The resolution characterized the spending plan as «a moral imperative» for the state party.

Silver says the public supports it, it would serve as an «economic stimulus», but more importantly, he says, lawmakers have a «moral imperative» to act.

The Governor stressed that this legislation was a moral imperative and should be seen not only as a priority for New York, but as a national priority.

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«Industry is much farther along in diversifying its workforce because it's not just seen as a moral or ethical imperative,» Dr. Willie Pearson, chair of Georgia Tech's School of History, Technology, and Society, said.

That aside, scientists and evangelicals have managed to find common ground on issues such as climate change, agreeing on the moral imperative to preserve the planet.

But experts such as Hsia hope that hospitals will put patients first — and they emphasize that it's a moral imperative to do so.