Sentences with phrase «from moral decisions»

Concern with an other - worldly mythology can form a tranquilizing escape from the moral decisions and duties which involvement in the historical world forces upon us.

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The Archbishop of Baltimore did docu - ment that if a married couple had good reason to use birth control (ie on gets HI - V from tainted blood) and the discuss their si - tu - ation with their priest and pray to God for guidance and they come to the con - clu - sion the should use birth control the can rest a-s-su-re-d they are making a moral decision.

It should be free in the sense that all individuals who are subject to the common decisions in question have equal rights to participation, and the discourse should be full in the sense that it takes no moral principle or norm to be immune from dissent.

An association that makes common decisions governing all social action does not honor each individual's right to dissent from the moral validity of any social action unless the association prevents other individuals from violating its governing decisions.

It follows from what has been said that moral prescriptions for social action prescribe common decisions, in the sense that each of the participants should and thus can choose to affirm the prescribed action because it is valid.

Second, good natural law does not dictate a moral code to be imposed upon individuals; instead, it protects the right of individuals to make moral decisions free from dictation by either legislators or judges.

Rather than viewing it as a decision made for the sake of living a life free from the world's demands, Augustine agonized over the «evils» of sexuality in a doctrinal context that virtually denied the human capacity for free moral decision.

That is, in my opinion, a convenient escape from moral responsibility and from the discomfort of facing and making moral decisions.

If pro-life nurses and doctors are driven from the field or deterred from entering, a woman deciding whether to abort is unlikely to encounter informed professionals who think her decision presents a moral issue.

On the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kind.

It must be admitted that there are certain potential vices to virtue ethics even in its minimalist mode, i.e., even when it does not try to crowd out the legitimate insights of deontologists and utilitarians (e.g., from the deontological side, that there are limits — deontoi — regarding what any virtuous person can be permitted to do, and, from the utilitarian side, that there are calculations which are relevant regarding many moral decisions the virtuous person must make).

Complex as life is, to evade Christian decision on the basis of inadequate direction from Jesus is to evade moral responsibility on other grounds.

There's been much talk lately about the moral purposes of history, especially from those celebrating the recent Supreme Court decision regarding gay marriage.

It is both foundational to and prior to conscience, for conscience combines the advocacy of our visions and passionate convictions with the disinterested analysis necessary for moral decision - making, the latter resulting from education.

Simply put, there is no neutral ground from which humans form moral and political judgments because such decisions embody an embrace of this authority or that authority.

Complex moral decisions made with the counsel of family, friends and medical professionals are of quite a different order from the lonely judgment reached by someone for whom life is «no longer worth living.»

Even for the Catholic the road from the general principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibility.

Neuhaus, like many who are appalled with the decision to withdraw nutrition and hydration from Nancy, argues more from superficial appearances than from moral principles.

When one couples this with what we have said earlier about man's freedom, the openness to the future which is before each of us and all of us, and the importance of decision as to choices made, the moral question is radically transformed from obedience to arbitrary command to willing acceptance of the invitation of love.

If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.

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.

And one actual occasion can answer for a decision from its past because it unavoidably exists in the context of that prior decision — what AE2 is is not totally independent of the prior choice — and because, when AE2 is the presently concrescing occasion of the supportive nexus, it can be concerned for the future moral welfare of the bodily structured society.

The most important moral, political, and cultural decisions affecting our lives are steadily being removed from democratic control.

Solid believers who have a moral failing, make a bad decision, find themselves in a financial bind, or even have the misfortune to raise prodigal children have found themselves ostracized by «friends» they've know for decades, and effectively excluded from the «fellowship.»

But, was that decision made from a business point of view, or was it made by someone else's «morals» as to how HIS business should run?

Decisions had to be made from time to time as to where or when services of the church would be held; the church needed to be told of the impending visit of an apostle, or of some prophet or teacher from abroad; a question has been raised as to the good faith of one of these visitors, and there must be some discussion of the point and a decision on it; a fellow Christian from another church is on a journey and needs hospitality; a member of the local congregation planning to visit a church abroad needs a letter of introduction to that church, which someone must be authorized to provide; a serious dispute about property rights or some other legal matter has arisen between two of the brothers and the church must name someone to help them settle the issue or must in some other way deal with it; a new local magistrate has begun to prosecute Christians for violating the law against unlicensed assembly, and consideration must be given to ways and means of meeting this crisis; charges have been brought against one of the members by another member, and these must be investigated and perhaps some disciplinary action taken; one of the members has died, and the church is called on for some special action in behalf of his family in the emergency; differences of opinion exist in the church on certain questions of morals or belief (such as marriage and divorce, or the resurrection), differences which local prophets and teachers are apparently unable to compose, and a letter must be written to the apostle — who will write this letter and what exactly will it say?

«All the seemingly divisive decisions — pain meds in labor / newborn sleep arrangements / feeding — are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides.

According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated from moral, ethical or faith principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.

But when people are insulated from some of the risks of their decisions, doesn't that create moral hazard?

Rangel's decision to play the moral race card is the latest salvo by old - guard Harlem Democrats to try to prevent Cuomo from running against Paterson.

A key problem with bailing out institutions that are deemed «too big to fail» is moral hazard - as commentators from both left and right have emphasised, it lets «systemically important institutions» get away with making risky or even stupid decisions, and still survive.

Unfortunately, a series of Supreme Court decisions unleashing a flood of private money to campaigns in recent years has knocked the moral props from beneath public financing programs like Connecticut's, instilling even in reformers a ravenous appetite for more campaign cash to stay competitive.

«Not only is inclusion better than exclusion from a moral and social - justice standpoint, but the inclusion of diverse views from diverse people with diverse life stories and experiences leads to a better, more robust decision - making process and far superior results whether in a classroom or in a boardroom,» said Lana D. Benatovich, president of the National Federation of Just Communities of Western New York.

This makes the moral decision less onerous for illegal downloaders than were they to steal a CD or DVD from a high street shop.

«This strengthens evidence that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex integrates information from other parts of the brain to determine punishment and shows a clear neural dissociation between punishment decisions and moral responsibility judgements.»

According to the authors, the present study reinforces the notion that altruistic decisions emerge from complex cognitive process that come into action during a moral decision, for instance if one is for or against civil rights.

They ranged from what I would call a kind of morally inept level of decision making, from one person who simply didn't realize that they were being asked a question that had moral consequences to a kind of legal «officialistic» kind of thinking that said, «Oh boy!

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His wife, however, is appalled (for various reasons) when she learns where the little extras come from and forces Leopold, for the first time, to consider the enormous moral import of his daily decisions.

In a desperate bid to save his mother from a crippling alcohol addiction and reunite his broken family, John is forced to take a job which will see him pushed further into Dublin's dark underbelly and he's forced to make a life - changing moral decision

This moral struggle makes the film not only a mini-study of philosophy and psychology, but more important, a nail - biter thriller in which tension comes from the hesitations and even the comic examination of people who are most concerned with covering their own butts by avoiding a decision to let the bombs rip.

In order to stay healthy employers need a broad, moral framework of thinking from which they can make decisions.

Other strategies include: (1) establishing and using a time - out or cooling - off place (even an informal time - out activity like having a child take a message, book, or box of chalk to another teacher could give the student the space and time he or she needs to maintain or regain composure); (2) applying role plays, simulations (for example, Barnga, Living in a Global Age, Rafa - Rafa, and Broken Squares) and moral dilemmas to teach students how to resolve conflicts, make collective decisions, appreciate different perspectives, weigh consequences, identify right from wrong, and check impulsive behavior; and (3) suggesting or assigning literature with characters who face similar challenges to that of the disabled student.

«If... virtue were wrapped in innocence, instead of being something that fights its way up from depravity, the reader's pain would be a fraction of what it is,» he says of difficult moral decisions in fiction.

To what extent do you view your investing life as an extension of your personal life?By that I mean to what extent do the personal morals and ethical values of Tim the man govern the investing decisions of Tim the dividend growth investor?If you ask your typical dividend growth investor if they would be willing to invest in a lucrative but immoral venture, say selling child pornography or crack cocaine, the answer would probably be «absolutely not» regardless of the yield, valuation or growth prospects of the underlying venture.And yet, ask that same investor what their thoughts are about Phillip Morris and they would probably describe what a wonderful investment it is and go on about why you should own it.Do your personal morals ever come into play when buying companies, or do you compartmentalize your conscience, wall it off from the part of your brain that thinks about investments, and make your investing decisions based on the financial prospects of the company?The reason why I'm asking is that I keep identifying stocks of companies that I love from an investing perspective but despise on a human level.I can not in good conscience own any piece of Phillip Morris knowing the impact that smoking related illness has on the families of smokers.You might say that the smoker made his choice to smoke so you don't mind taking his money, but his children never made that choice and they are the ones who will suffer when he dies 20 years too soon.

The term moral hazard refers to the belief that there is some probability that one's actions (financial decisions) will be insulated from risk (the Federal Reserve will step in to prevent bankruptcy), they will be affected by that belief.

I want to play a game where I raise Molyneux from a fetus to an E3 announcement, just so I can make the moral decision not to let him get on stage.

The My Choices feature provides an entire listing of your choices including the statistical analysis regarding the percentage of players who have made the same choice as you for each moral decision as well as a variety of decisions that are scattered throughout the chapters of each episode and season such as how you reacted to losing a friend, who you trust and much more besides with the feature being directly available from the extras menu after having completed an episode.

The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series Collection's replayability stems from the multiple storylines you can shape by playing the first season, 400 Days, second season, A New Frontier and Michonne spanning a total of 19 episodes over the course of multiple playthroughs, while experimenting with different combinations of moral choices to see which direction your decisions will ultimately guide the story regarding which characters will survive that did not previously do so and which characters who survived beforehand that will not survive during a separate playthrough given an alternative moral choice.

The Player Choices feature is quite reminiscent of the My Choices feature found in Telltale's previous games such as both seasons of The Walking Dead episodic games by providing an entire listing of your choices including the statistical analysis regarding the percentage of players who have made the same choice as you for each moral decision as well as a variety of decisions that are scattered throughout the chapters of each episode such as backing away from a fight when the opposing Fable has been stunned, who you have decided to place suspicion upon, who you have arrested and much more besides with the feature being directly available from the main menu and at the end of each episode.