Sentences with phrase «higher moral thinking»

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While these companies are unsurprisingly out of favour with many investors — a lot simply won't buy these companies on moral grounds — they think the sector's high yields, low correlation with market cycles and steady earnings will make investors give them another look, and then stock prices will appreciate.

«He explained to me that with the moral high ground, he thought he could make decisions more easily and more gracefully,» says Ellison.

You fail to uphold your morals: When you get too caught up in what your boss thinks of you, how much money you think your spouse needs to be happy, or how bad you will look if you fail, you are at high risk of violating your own morals.

And it's not because I think I occupy some sort of high moral ground.

I also think many of the the views he tries to shame us into accepting are very naive and do not hold the moral high ground he seems to believe they do.

The MORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian etMORAL LIFE AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION SEMINAR is a week - long program for advanced high school students interested in the origins of Western moral thought and its influence on Christian etmoral thought and its influence on Christian ethics.

The moral of this comparison is that even if you think that America's high levels of inequality are the price of our high level of national income, it's not at all clear that this price is worth paying.

One needn't ascribe this difference in attitudes to higher moral sensibilities on the part of the Israelis» they are, after all, the winners in the region and not the losers» but it utterly confuses clear thinking about the situation to pretend that the difference is not there.

I think a big thing about being spiritual is believing in something higher than yourself without being tied to some arbitrarily specific moral code created by people (not God (s)-RRB- in the context of their times that often has horrifyingly backwards and incredibly immoral rules.

The «pacifist» proponents of nonviolent resistance do not, as many seem to think, occupy the moral high ground while the rest of us are prepared to get our hands dirty in «the real world.»

Every situation of praxis must have within it that theoretical interlude during which answers relevant to these higher levels of practical moral thinking are achieved.

Instead of seeing the light in this article you decided to use it as moral high ground to condemn people who don't think the same way you do.

@ steve, I could also get into some of the «higher brain functions» that lead scientists to better understand why we have compassion and such; however, I think that many people don't really give compassion or morals a lot of thought or care as to where they come from, they are simply a part of who we are as a species.

While admittedly of human origins, it has come to be thought of as authoritative also, in the expression of religious faith, and of very high value in the teaching of religion and morals.

The man who would become Pope Benedict XVI was deeply concerned about the moral relativism he thought was corroding the West, and located its roots in Western high culture's refusal to say that anything was «the truth,» full stop.

There are a myriad of arguements about your supposedly higher ideals where you can not explain why I should think you believe in any unprovable higher ideals and morals, if you can not also have a faith in other unproven concepts, but whatever.

There is the same type of apocalyptic thinking and the same seizing of the high moral ground.

I don't think anyone here is trying to take some imagined moral high ground.

Glenda is the classic example of hateful Christians with blinders on who think they have the moral high ground which to cast judgement.

For if the ethical (i.e. the moral) is the highest thing, and if nothing incommensurable remains in man in any other way but as the evil (i.e. the particular which has to be expressed in the universal), then one needs no other categories besides those which the Greeks possessed or which by consistent thinking can be derived from them.

A new kind of political - economic - moral order was rising — under the hand of Providence, he thought — and perhaps the most striking thing about this new order was that in it «men have in our time carried to the highest perfection the art of pursuing in common the object of common desires, and have applied this new technique to the greatest number of purposes.»

I think the high milage achieved in the pre-season testing (even if it did involve regular changes in the engines) will have been a huge moral booster.

Second, Tomasi seeks to persuade liberal egalitarians in the Rawlsian mode — those he terms «high liberals» — that their thinking fails to recognize the moral significance of «economic liberties.»

Even Democratic allies have complained of Mr. de Blasio's high - handedness — not everyone thought it was a moral obligation to make mayoral control permanent — and Ms. Wolfe will need to figure out how to keep securing wins in an environment that can be hostile for a big city liberal mayor.

«Some might think that now to have a second treasurer apparently in breach of the code of conduct is a sign of systemic moral failure in the high command of the Conservative party.»

Fiona hopes her moral compass isn't leading her astray when she reconnects with her married high school crush, but when she finds an abandoned purse with over five hundred dollars inside, she assumes her luck is finally changing; Frank is willing to do just about anything to stay in Dottie's good graces, even marry her; after Harry's passing, Debbie becomes obsessed with death; Kevin thinks about buying the Alibi; Lip meets with a colonel to glean information for Ian about West Point; Jody asks Frank for Karen's hand in marriage.

This set of resource includes: • 6 attractive PowerPoint presentations which lead the class through each of the lessons • Fun and thought provoking activities and discussion starters, worksheets and questions to reinforce the learning • 6 differentiated homework tasks • A mark sheet which allows pupils to track their own progress • An end of unit test to prepare the students for exams or can be used as a form of assessment • A complete teacher's guide including easy to follow lesson plans • An answer booklet to help the teacher along The lessons are: Lesson 1 — Looking into ethical and moral dilemmas such as driverless cars and the impact of technology on modern life Lesson 2 — More ethical dilemmas including the ratings culture, medical apps, sharing personal data and cyber bullying Lesson 3 — Environmental issues with technology and how organisations and individuals can reduce these effects Lesson 4 — The Computer Misuse Act 1990 Lesson 5 — The Data Protection Act 1998 Lesson 6 — Copyright Designs and Patents Act 1988 For more high - quality resources written by this author visit www.nicholawilkin.com

Students look at various moral problems, assess what they think about them and then work out why they feel the way they do, using higher level thinking skills and independent work.

Our plan is grounded in the following two premises: 1) When purposefully synchronized with one another across multiple forms of media («cross-media»), children's and adolescents» exposure to high quality youth - oriented social and ethical story content, i.e. stories of substance specifically about character development, compassion, and courage (CCC), is a powerful way to promote youth academic achievement and ethical values; 2) Especially if these stories, told and «read» across media, in their various genres (human interest, biography, history and historical fiction, civic engagement, coming of age, social change, spiritual awakening, moral issues, etc.), are «taught» by «educators» (broadly defined) using an «evidence - based» pedagogy that A) makes use of peer to peer, and adult facilitated group discussion and debate as a primary form of instruction, and B) takes advantage of access to the texts of the story that are made available cross-media (narratives, scripts, videos, etc.) to foster students» critical thinking and ethical reflection skills.

Thinking Ethically About the Environment This short course helps students - from high school to adult learners - to recognize and use moral language to describe how they value the earth.

Though I don't agree with many of the marketing efforts such sets employ, I also will not condemn them (I don't think authors must necessarily be held to a higher moral standard than any other small business seeking visibility).

Assuming what people thinks makes any difference — I've seen estimates that this thing may have cost Amazon something like 5 - 10 % of book sales among certain demographics who don't like what Amazon is doing, which is not nothing, if not exactly crippling — if Hachette is standing on the «we care about authors» moral high ground, Amazon is pretty much duty bound to point out why they are the ones who should be viewed as the Author's Friend.

If you're a sim fan in general, I think you'll enjoy Block» hood; you're still sitting waiting for your city to generate enough money to do the next thing you want to do sometimes, but at the very least there's a challenge here to maintain some kind of ecological equilibrium... and you'll get a little bit of a moral high the next time you recycle.

Whether it's asking if morality matters in saving the planet, or encouraging activists not to demonize anti-environmentalists, I'd like to think I've been pretty consistent in arguing that the moral high - ground is not always the most productive place to be.

This in my mind will knock Big Wind off it's undeserved moral high ground, changing the publics opinion of IWT's, and convincing politicians, who would still cling to IWT's as a solution, to think otherwise.

Do you think if we did this that they would bury us on the high moral ground?

9:30 James Taylor (again, not the James Taylor), claims he holds the moral high ground because he believes in freedom of thought, unlike mainstream climate change advocates.

Lacking any serious, scientific reason to think they're wrong, it's downright silly to assume they are and then claim the moral high ground, declaring you're acting in the interest of future generations.

Do you really think that people who deliberately site military assets in and near homes, schools and hospitals for the express purpose of maximizing civilian casualties among its own people to attract world sympathy for its cause occupy any sort of «moral high ground»?

If you think you are taking the moral high ground by being evasive about your salary instead of lying, be warned that the only thing this accomplishes is creating a perception that you have something to hide and that you are likely worth a meager salary.

For a company that seems to think it has the moral high ground criticising Google for data mining, when all along they've been deliberately crippling customer's devices without their consent.

Aside from the overall health and safety of my children, my two biggest goals as a parent are that I raise kids that have high moral reasoning and can think for themselves.

There is also evidence showing that EC plays an important role in the development of conscience, which involves the interplay between experiencing moral emotions (i.e., guilt / shame or discomfort following transgressions) and behaving morally, in a way that is compatible with rules and social norms.8 Besides, children who are high in EC appear to be more able to display empathy toward other's emotional states and pro-social behaviour.4 EC is thought to provide the attentional flexibility required to link emotional reactions (both positive and negative) in oneself and others with internalized social norms and action in everyday situations.

We thought this Catholic school would help us raise a son with high morals but all it did was cause stress.

I would like — would really like to think our elected ORE representatives would have a much higher moral standard and remain immune to appointments made out of gratitude.

The fact that another brokerage would decide to one - up you offends you, because you want to think or need to project that you're already occupying the highest moral ground.