To his credit, Ford's assertion here has the whiff
of moral principle about it.
A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication
of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.
People with this orientation interpreted the persecution of Jews as a violation
of moral principles, and the main goal of their rescue behavior was to reaffirm and act on these principles.
On the Protestant side, therefore, matters
of moral principle were discussed differently.
The cosmopolitan envisions the direct application
of moral principles on a global scale, and regards the nation - state as an impediment to human rights and global justice.
On the other hand, being an atheist, she naturally espouses amoral behavior; a lack
of moral principles — only those that are self - imposed and self - executed, and which are subject to change at a whim.
Along the same lines, Sapontzis argues that animals» intentional and sincere, kind and courageous actions are moral actions, for they accord with accepted moral norms, and we do not require demonstrations
of moral principle in everyday human moral practice (AAMB 51 - 2).
I can still have my own set
of moral principles even if I do nt identify with a particular set of faiths and principles.
Waugh understood that this search was all about the actual, raw fact of the Crucifixion really happening: the Christian faith is not a set
of moral principles, or a myth and some lovely traditions, but the truth, rooted in history.
But so long as we are not in this state of perfection we have to live by the rational elaboration
of moral principles, and by specific moral and legal rules: «Thou shalt not kill.»
But as men became more and more aware
of moral principles and as their thinking was «rationalized», the way in which the sacred was understood, the way in which men came to interpret the more - than - human, was in terms of love and of «persuasion» (as Whitehead put it), although it never lost the awesome quality which evoked from them worship and adoration.
By contrast, a child's right to protection from a parent's brutality is a matter
of both moral principle and law which the courts will enforce.
All of which is really to say that evil magic is domination of the natural world through science and technology loosed from any sense
of moral principle — the culture of death.
I'm a student at a Christian college, and it saddens me to think that you would distrust my collaborative ability based on the fact that I attend a school that has a specific set
of moral principles.
For those who look to eternal verities for directly applicable political solutions, he observes: «The deposit of wisdom in the Bible and in the classic books does not contain a systematic and comprehensive statement
of moral principles from which it is possible to deduce with clarity and certainty specific answers to concrete questions.»
We all agree in the obligation
of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.
And (here I repeat myself) on what ground
of moral principle?
The third level in the hierarchy
of moral principles is also the last.
The second half
of this moral principle is openness to the real aspect of transcendence.
He made the case that if we base our objections to this on our own conscience rights, we may absolutize the privatization
of moral principles, such that the public square is no longer responsible to any standard of right and wrong.
While a process - based ontology may avoid prescribing an immutable set
of moral principles, we may yet discern — within its existential uncertainties and contingencies — a universal normative principle that reflects the reciprocal causal unity and «novel togetherness» of the many becoming one.
Over time we've managed to compile an impressive canon
of moral principles by literally following our guts: that which makes us nauseated, or want to reel away in gibbering horror, must have something ethically wrong with it, and vice versa.
Most religions locate the source
of these moral principles in god.
I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance
of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law - giver, especially a law - giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.»
The obvious breach
of moral principles and the scientific method in ClimateGate strongly motivates me and others to critically examine the science and / or oppose the policies being advocated by those warning over catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.
Thus, for example, the judge must decide cases on the basis
of those moral principles that «figure -LSB--RSB- in the soundest theory of law that can be provided as a justification for the explicit substantive and institutional rules of the jurisdiction in question» (Dworkin 1977, 66).
(used with a singular or plural verb) a system
of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.
Not exact matches
And interesting for the range
of values and
moral principles that Cook brings to bear on his topic.
«The wariness
of authority reflected the most fundamental
of all Einstein's
moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish.»
These persons one is tempted to see as representatives
of Kohlberg's post-conventional or
principled level
of moral understanding and action.
«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president
of Gonzaga University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and
moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.
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.
People
of all faiths do or do not do illegal things based on their value systems, their needs, and their basic
moral principles.
We all are creatures
of mingled good and evil; and, good institutions neglected and ancient
moral principles ignored, the evil in us tends to predominate.
The FIRST
PRINCIPLES SEMINAR:
MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE NATURAL LAW TRADITION is an intensive two - week program for advanced undergraduate and graduate students under the direction
of Thomas D'Andrea (University
of Cambridge) and Christopher Tollefsen (University
of South Carolina), with guest lecturers Hadley Arkes (Amherst College), Robert George (Princeton University) and Daniel Robinson (Oxford University).
The basic goods are supplemented by
moral principles, sometimes called «modes
of responsibility.»
Aware that the Church «can not and should not intervene on every scientific innovation,» the pope charged the congregation with «reiterating the great values at stake, and providing the faithful, and all men and women
of good will, with ethical and
moral principles and guidelines for these new and important questions.»
The author, professor
of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job
of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law,
principles of human action, the determination
of the
moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts
of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.
He spoke twice about «the
moral force
of non-violence,» referred repeatedly to self - determination and insisted that «our support for these
principles is not a secondary interest.»
Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the
moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others only if, in the totality
of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account
of the probability
of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.
Nat privileged me by asking me to introduce him at that event, where I lauded him as «a superb writer and first - class public intellectual,... a man
of consistent, steadfast
principle; a
moral purist in an age
of hand - wringing accommodationists.»
Wary
of the dangers that radical subjectivism and
moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core
principles such as individual freedom and human rights.
As someone in his late 40s (I literally ride the line between being a baby boomer and the oldest
of the Gen - X crowd), I can appreciate much
of what is said in the article, except that instead
of the church being old - fashioned, I tend to see it as the church adhering to established sound doctrine and
moral principles.
I am assuming that we can appropriate this
principle from Kant's
moral theory without assuming the rest
of it as true, including his restricted view
of what a person is.
The idea seems to be that Millennials are so cynically resistant to truth claims and so hostile towards claims
of moral perfection that somehow the arresting power
of religious or even purely artistic beauty might be the
principle means to, as it were, lower their guard, and enable them to glimpse something
of the workings
of the creator.
We look to it to assert a
principled conservatism that may have various expressions on prudential questions, and one
of those
principles ought to be the
moral order as conservatism's founding fathers (Russell Kirk, for example) understood conservatism.
You can theorize all day long that we have other rules and laws... but for my
moral guide in this life... Jesus
principle of love will do just fine.
If, however, it is proposed not as a preference but as a
principle, it gravely distorts
moral deliberation about the use
of force in the service
of justice.
If the church focused on teaching people to be
moral by upholding bible
principles instead
of their own traditions, they wouldn't have to be concerned.
The pulpit is the place for the declaration
of the Word
of God and not the place for teaching Christian theology or the
principles of Christian morality, although it is obvious that the gospel
of Christ has theological implications and involves
moral consequences.