Sentences with phrase «by moral justification»

To continue ignoring climate change and effective climate action is definitely an après moi le deluge stance, an expression of callousness and self - absorption unsupportable by moral justification.

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The Protestant evangelical primacy of justification by faith, coupled with an overemphasis on discontinuity between the covenants, has more often than not resulted in the confusion of soteriological and ethical categories, in the end breeding among evangelicals a moral mindset devoid of both foundations and fiber.

Despite the hollow moral platitudes offered by countless university administrators, the essential justification for the university is its technological usefulness, its crucial hegemonic role in the shaping of the consumer and the therapeutic culture.

And by the same token, without public awareness or discussion, we have converted the moral justification for laissez - faire capitalism into justification for state - managed capitalism.

Responsibility and the Moral Sentiments By R. Jay Wallace Harvard University Press, 275 pages, $ 39.95 In the rich and various pages of Enlightenment thought, there are several fairly well developed psychologies offered in justification of political and moral theories.

Jesus is not accusing the Pharisees of an early form of Pelagianism, of trying to earn their justification by strenuous moral effort.

The possession of nuclear weapons that are kept to deter their use by the other side has some justification, but the moment we accept the actual possibility of our using them to initiate the nuclear stage of a war, we are taking upon ourselves an unexamined moral responsibility.

For Rawls departures from equality require special justification, but the disvalue of such departures is not intrinsic, but derivative of the value of moral equality represented by the choice situation behind the veil of ignorance.

White Europeans, such as Red Cross worker Ms. Archer (Cara Seymour) and Belgian hotel owner Jean Reno, are provided to register moral superiority and offense while a finger is wagged, with every justification, at an international community led by the United States under Clinton that refused to intervene.

A particular worry of mine is that some developing nations, faced with a climate crisis, may use the notion of the past uncompensated atmospheric imperialism by rich nations as a moral justification for launching a unilateral assault on the climate, by means of solar radiation management.