Sentences with phrase «certainty of right and wrong»

There are those who live with the certainty of right and wrong — what is true or false, black or white.

Not exact matches

«Where standards of right and wrong are asserted with dogmatic certainty and are not open to discussion, and, even worse, where these standards merely express the interests of the stronger party in a relationship while clothing those interests in moralistic language, then that criticism is indeed justified» (p. 140).

But it seems that we have often gone one step further: we justify our own confusion by being suspicious of any certainty, and we interpret the lack of easy answers to mean that any answer is as good as another, that we can not be sure about right and wrong.

Would it really bring greater satisfaction if absolute certainty could be introduced or would it actually take away the great enjoyment that football fans obviously get from the argument and the discussion about the rights and wrongs of decisions on which individual games, cups and championships turn?