Sentences with phrase «basis of those moral principles»

Thus, for example, the judge must decide cases on the basis of those moral principles that «figure -LSB--RSB- in the soundest theory of law that can be provided as a justification for the explicit substantive and institutional rules of the jurisdiction in question» (Dworkin 1977, 66).

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

What the Girl Scouts decided was that if the girl in question believed in something that allowed for the same traditional Scouting function of religious education — religious and spiritual self - cultivation based on the principle of a moral order of which the Scout can be a part — she could substitute her preferred name for that instead of using the word «God.»

More prevalent and more insidious is the fact that just war discourse deceives sincere people by the very nature of its claim to base moral discernment upon the facts of the case and on universally accessible rational principles.

He tries to distinguish between the church's declarations of concrete, Biblically based moral principle (this is its rightful task) and its statements on political policy (this is the province of the government).

'' [T] he poverty of postmodern ethical relativism should be evident - a missing ethical subject and hence no possibility of genuine moral responsibility or accountability, desire as the basis for ethics, ethics as pure self - creation with the vaguest of boundaries, ethics without principle, or ethical conduct measured by how well one «copes with the flux» of the postmodern world.»

The Reformers saw that the basis of moral responsibility and decision of the Christian does not lie in the elaboration of principles but in the concrete response of free men to the call of God, which is a call to action and service.

Furthermore, it must be firmly maintained as a principle both of justice and of religious freedom that opposition to governmental policies, based on sincerely held moral opinions, need not make a man a security risk.17

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

I'm a student at a Christian college, and it saddens me to think that you would distrust my collaborative ability based on the fact that I attend a school that has a specific set of moral principles.

The natural law is a body of unchanging moral principles known not from revelation (though parallel to it) but by reason, principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct: to speak in this way of «the humanisation of sexuality» is simply the understanding of the natural law in particular human circumstances: there is no movement away from natural law - say, to revelation or ecclesial authority; we are stillwithin its ambit.

(2) Freedom of choice should be allowed in those matters on which a plurality of views are held — views based on well - articulated principles rooted in cultural tradition or widely recognized moral, philosophical and religious beliefs.

Liberal Protestants and secularists furthermore agreed that the scientific age bad brought with it higher - level moral principles that could form the basis for a consensus of values that would benefit all humanity.

I also indicated that the state should permit freedom of choice on matters where a plurality of views are held, based on well - articulated principles rooted in cultural tradition or widely recognized moral, philosophical or religious beliefs.

Religious thinkers, I believe, need to be more vocal in their support of those who affirm the need for political and economic life to be based on moral principles.

This is a case of shift in policy based on convenience rather than on ideological convictions or moral principles.

Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative principles but can not wholly be deduced from them solely by explicit casuistry.

He made the case that if we base our objections to this on our own conscience rights, we may absolutize the privatization of moral principles, such that the public square is no longer responsible to any standard of right and wrong.

While a process - based ontology may avoid prescribing an immutable set of moral principles, we may yet discern — within its existential uncertainties and contingencies — a universal normative principle that reflects the reciprocal causal unity and «novel togetherness» of the many becoming one.

The Ghana army has a firmly established ethical and moral code based on the laws and institutions of the State of Ghana, the traditions of the Ghanaian people and democratic principles.

The first principle is the well - being of conscious creatures, from which we can build a science - based system of moral values by quantifying whether or not X increases or decreases well - being.

My boundaries are unlimited but restricted within morals, principles and values of life that are spiritually based and guided.

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.

It was Mann's point of view that children in the common school were to receive a common moral education based on the general principles of the Bible and on common virtues.

I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law - giver, especially a law - giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.»

Many congratulations on synthesising a coherent, wide - ranging, global argument base which should, as a matter of principle, priority and moral rectitude, be urgent reading material for all Public Politicians, functionaries and policy makers globally.

The Supreme Court of Canada stated in Honda Canada Inc. v. Keays.1 that an award of moral damages is based on the principle, articulated in Hadley v. Baxendale, 2 that damages are recoverable for a contractual breach if the damages are «such as may fairly and reasonably be considered either arising naturally... from such breach of contract itself, or such as may reasonably be supposed to have been in the contemplation of both parties».

These programs not only raise grave constitutional questions, they also undermine the moral basis of the equal protection principle.

2007), which held for the first time that a conviction for sex with minor is not necessarily a crime involving moral turpitude; Camins v. Gonzales, 500 F. 3d 872 (9th Cir 2007) which applied retroactivity principles to find that the grounds of inadmissibility do not apply to returning lawful permanent residents based on criminal conviction sustained before April 1, 1997; and Li v. Ashcroft, 389 F. 3d 892 (9th Cir.

Asaro argues in favour of a ban on autonomous lethal weapons systems, based on a foundation of human rights and humanitarian principles that are not only moral, but legal.

Some asked if a machine could acquire capacities of moral reasoning and human judgment, which is the basis for respect of international humanitarian law principles and challenged the capacity of machine to respond to a moral dilemma.