Sentences with phrase «defined by the conscience»

Good and evil if they are not hinged upon an external truth are defined by the conscience of man.

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Isn't it a matter of conscience (in Hobbes's sense) to abide by the rules that define the profession you've signed up for?

What makes this novel a powerful description of the dawning new age is the fact that Jim can ward off the power of society to define him, and he does so not by way of a heroic loyalty to conscience (Rousseau, Emerson) or will to power (Nietzsche), but with the inchoate sense of the socially constructed contingency of society's imprisoning walls of honor and shame.

While this relativity can be interpreted to mean that values are wholly defined by the circumstances of culture and are merely expressions of cultural exigencies, the insistent pressures of the human conscience, oftentimes in contradiction to accepted cultural norms, render this interpretation doubtful.

Demonstrating how thoroughly progressive thought — as defined by Abramson — has shattered classical liberalism in Canada's medical ranks, 79 percent of the Canadian Medical Association doctors recently voted against conscience protections for physicians opposed to participation in euthanasia.

In the excitement of discovery, we must never forget that mankind is defined not by intelligence alone, but by conscience.

However, Todd James does not limit himself to focusing on the problems arising from the various crises that define our era — its economic, social, ideological, humanitarian, generational, moral crises — but aims to fight the established order by stirring our consciences to take sides.