Sentences with phrase «basic moral principle»

The first half of our basic moral principle is that we should adopt and nurture an orientation of critical commitment to challenging ideals.

For many reasons — among them the example which capital punishment sets, its effect on those who must carry out death sentences and, above all, its violation of a basic moral principle — the state ought not to kill people.

There is a basic moral principle at work: If debts can not be paid without radically transferring property from debtors to creditors, the loan should be deemed «bad» and be written down to the ability to be paid while living a normal life.

People of all faiths do or do not do illegal things based on their value systems, their needs, and their basic moral principles.

Indeed, the effort to discover the relationship between policy questions or basic moral principles and theological warrants now preoccupies many ethicists.

Therefore, tolerance and respect of others becomes another of the basic moral principles.

Not exact matches

The basic goods are supplemented by moral principles, sometimes called «modes of responsibility.»

It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical principles such as «the common good» and «the question of moral power and authority,» but from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.

If what is demanded of me by high moral principles also leads to my deliverance in a situation where not to act in accordance with these ethical demands or to continue in my same ways of acting leads to my destruction, then there are possibilities for basic transformations of my ideas, attitudes, and goals.

We seek union with the same reality upon which the basic principle of the moral is grounded: the Life - Force which includes the will - to - relatedness or love.

Brown says The Hobbit exemplifies three basic Christian principles — providence, purpose and moral sensibility — and that they all serve to inspire Christian hope.

Thus, utilitarian moral principles most closely correspond to the basic structure of reality as posited by his metaphysical system Since ultimate value in Hartshorne's view is achieved in the divine experience, human beings are morally bound to contribute to that experience by acting according to utilitarian principles.

Basic differences between Mill and Hartshorne are to be found, not in their principles of morality, but in the reasons each offers for accepting a utilitarian moral theory.

On the most important points the moral principles of the Decalogue remain basic.

This is why I say that one of the basic principles of moral psychology is that we are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee.

Beyond purely pictorial values, the basic rationalism of his method and the mood of ideal calm in his paintings have certain moral implications; they seem to embody an underlying ethical belief in the rational principle which governs the world of artistic form and natural life.

The idea that one can use some «basic principles» to answer an engineering or scientific question is attractive but in practice there are no such basic principles that allow all societal or moral questions to be answered.

America is pretty well broken down politically after having been severely wounded by corruption of traditional morals and customs and even the basic principles of Americana — e.g., respect for individual liberty, self - determination, personal responsibility, property of others — even the lives of unborn infants.