Sentences with phrase «good moral judgment»

A. being honest and trustworthy B. being qualified to perform insurance sales functions C. using good moral judgment and acting in good faith D. understanding how first year commissions are beneficial

However, that is demonstrably true not in relation to my possession of particular moral virtues, but is rather true in relation to my personality — whether, eg, I am an introvert or an extrovert — and in relation to my development of good moral judgment (as a matter of reason and intuition).

Intellectuals do not have better moral judgment than people with little or no education, they do not live more wisely, they are certainly not more compassionate, they have not fewer but different superstitions, and they are capable of the most mindless fanaticisms.

Not exact matches

With the victims of lung cancer we have the good sense to respond at the point of human suffering rather than the point of moral judgment.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.

I would rather cultivate a strong intuitive sence of judgment and understand the root of morals from within that to live by a very limited and conflicted set of rules such as in the KUran or Bible and never cultivate a good sense of judjment or a moral sense.

His argument, part of which appeared in these pages («Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil,» May 2000), is that moral education as presently conceived almost inevitably ends up by thinning out moral content, removing the sharp edges of judgment, avoiding normative traditions of moral experience, and thus stifling the factors most crucial to the formation of character.

And as an elected political leader his task is not to render a legal opinion but to bring his best judgment, including moral judgment, to bear on public policy.

Precisely because it has largely isolated itself from the rest of America, Belmont can get on quite well without the strict judgments of the old moral codes.

Troeltsch, by way of contrast, was well versed in the social science of his time, and sought to make careful use of it in his theological, political and moral judgments.

This hubris is in contradistinction to the clear teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church» for the Catechism, while assuming a serious dialogue among government officials, just war analysts, and the public, nonetheless teaches (at § 2309) that «the evaluation of these [just war] conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.»

But such political judgment need not be translated into the view that there is no such thing as «the good life,» or that we are not ourselves to seek it and seek through a variety of institutional (though non-governmental) mechanisms to encourage and inculcate that moral and religious vision.

There is the tendency of our religiousness toward «moralism» in the bad sense, that is, toward a rigid and self - righteous judgment according to a moral standard which we assume puts us in a good light and others in a bad.

Whereas the principle set forth in Deuteronomy may provide some means of measuring the accuracy of the predictions of an astrologer like Jeane Dixon or the lucrative prognostications of a dispensationalist like Hal Lindsey, it is less well suited to discerning the reliability of a call to moral judgment and decisive action.

If my account is fairly accurate, then I think my judgments about how we should act are also well - grounded in basic Christian moral teaching.

It is my belief that to some extent he did share it, though he transformed it by an emphasis on the mercy as well as the judgment of God and on the love of God and neighbor as the criterion for God's moral demands.

The first involves the nature of moral judgment and the meaning of such key evaluative words as good, right, virtue, justice, duty, and happiness.

It is a directive based upon moral doctrine and might best be described as a prudential judgment made by «legitimate ecclesiastical superiors» and to be followed by all under their authority.

When we move to the level of a moral judgment, we move away from statements of merely personal taste and private belief; we speak of the things that are more generally or universally right or wrong, just or unjust, for others as well as ourselves.

Certainly he will be forced to renounce every moral imperative with a transcendent ground, and this means that he must forswear the possibility of an absolute moral law, and at best look upon all forms of moral judgment as penultimate ways which must inevitably act as barriers to the full realization of energy and life.

Once a justice has made the moral decision that he can in good conscience swear to uphold the Constitution, his moral judgments on matters before the Court are not in play.

It would ne nice to accept our own moral compasses or as I put it «a morally correct manner» and then leave it at that, accept only detailed proven facts and then use your best judgment on the rest, its more likely to be right then listening or reading «facts» by those who tell you to not look for them or prove them one way r the other, that's the Fox News of the religious world... Religion is more dangerous then a blind man in a room of razors, it hurts, kills and destroys more of humanity then any «God Made» disaster.

Yet if we say that they have been «deceived» or are «mistaken» or have been indoctrinated by «false» ideas, then we are passing moral judgments, and the moment we do that we are implying that there are standards of good and evil.

Aware of the buzz over trolley problems, Mikhail began to suspect that the foundations of moral judgment were innate as well.

His point is to complicate our view of human behavior and to object to moral certainties that encourage black - and - white judgments about what's good and what's evil.

Therefore, this raises a crucial issue — the moral free riders who evade the cost associated with moral judgment (e.g. by not paying taxes for police and court) are better off than those who shoulder the cost.

For our brains this is far more motivating than the moral judgment that comes with believing that we're being «good» or «bad.»

There's a lot of talk out there labeling carbs as either «good» or «bad,» but I prefer to keep that kind of moral judgment out of my relationship with food.

These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or elimination of particular kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around sense of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence of malnutrition.

However, do nt let a few bad judgment calls stop you from watching it because it truly is a pretty good movie with some great revenge and morals hiding behind the cover and as strange and slow as it gets closes off with a pretty solid conclusion.

In the New York suit, Sperone Westwater asked the judge to make a declaratory judgment that the archive has no moral rights claims and also seeks damages «for the Defendants» injuries to the gallery's business and reputation,» on counts of breach of implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, negligent misrepresentation, and interference with business relations.

It is a matter of personal moral judgment whether that public good justifies Gleick's sting operation to obtain those [Heartland] revelations.

... In particular, it can help lawyers to develop the moral sensitivity, moral judgment and moral conviction necessary to make a better and more ennobling job of fulfilling their professional role and responsibilities.

Thus, defence counsels are superheroes because in suppressing their moral judgments, they seek to be the best advocates and uphold the cardinal rule of the profession, which is that everyone deserves representation.

Roth described the «key impediment to war» as «human empathy» and expressed skepticism that «better programming» can address concerns raised, warning, «there are moral judgments at stake.»

Instead of passing moral judgment from the perspective of an outsider, the therapist must learn to follow and respect the rhyme and reason of the emotional brain as well.