Sentences with phrase «employ moral language»

Today, more than a century after Lincoln articulated a moral center on behalf of national reconciliation, secularity has so infiltrated our leadership and our elite institutions that presidential candidates are reluctant to employ moral language and are uncertain about any symbolic code.

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When the Oliners affirm that the language of care — of compassion, hospitality, and helpfulness — is overwhelmingly employed to express their motives, they clearly imply that face - to - face compassion is a far more salient motive for sacrificial and heroic moral altruism than abstract principles of equity and justice.

Reaching through the haze of post-Christian understanding, employing against itself the only moral language she knows» the Judeo - Christian language of victims» Arundhati Roy alights by chance on a solution.