Sentences with phrase «ideas about morality»

Because if it is true that people are receptive to ideas about morality, when ethical and moral values are grounded on environmental precepts, it is no surprise that people behave accordingly.

Of course, this runs counter to traditional ideas about morality.

Not exact matches

Oh, the Calvinists could make perfect sense of it all with a wave of a hand and a swift, confident explanation about how Zarmina had been born in sin and likely predestined to spend eternity in hell to the glory of an angry God (they called her a «vessel of destruction»); about how I should just be thankful to be spared the same fate since it's what I deserve anyway; about how the Asian tsunami was just another one of God's temper tantrums sent to remind us all of His rage at our sin; about how I need not worry because «there is not one maverick molecule in the universe» so every hurricane, every earthquake, every war, every execution, every transaction in the slave trade, every rape of a child is part of God's sovereign plan, even God's idea; about how my objections to this paradigm represented unrepentant pride and a capitulation to humanism that placed too much inherent value on my fellow human beings; about how my intuitive sense of love and morality and right and wrong is so corrupted by my sin nature I can not trust it.

This is, like most of what Nietzsche wrote, unfair: Eliot was neither a «little bluestocking» nor a «moral fanatic,» and moreover drew almost all of her ideas about how to sustain Christian morality without Christian belief from reading Germans like Strauss and Feuerbach.

This is really what the Christian bashing is about: «let's throw out superficial ideas of morality» and substitute my own.

Thus she tackles things like sexual morality, how we dress, our attitude to human beauty, and our ideas about food and hospitality.

You people have no idea what the Lord's plan is because you ignore the morality the Bible tells you about.

Who, apart from those who stand by traditional ideas about marriage and sexual morality, can deny them?

Which tells me we care more about our ideas and our morality and our programs than we do the people.

I'm talking about how an idea like religion tries to dictate its own version of morality to others by declaring a certain group of people as being abominations... oh, but we still love you, you crazy little abomination you... so long as you do only what we tell you is ok.

Question the morality of a man who despite being in his 60's thought it a good idea to «shamelessly lie to the electorate» by sitting on the floor of a train to whip up hysteria about nationalising rail.

He is also well known for his ideas about the origin of morality.

Dating sites capitalize on our quest for love, but how do their creators» ideas about profits, morality, and the nature of desire shape the virtual worlds they've created for us?

It raises the question about the lack of morality in the world; unfortunately this idea does not pan out.

Adam and Evelyn begin dating, and as she challenges his ideas about art and morality, she begins remaking Adam into the sort of boyfriend she'd prefer.

Whether or not Alien: Covenant is better than Prometheus, it better blends the big ideas about creation and the morality of species preservation (and the value of humanity as a species) with big - budget monster violence.

Less a spoof of vampire flicks than a fish - out - of - water romantic comedy about a Victorian nobleman trying to negotiate the dating scene of Studio 54 - era Manhattan, this enjoyably silly film is no one's idea of great cinema, but writer Robert Kaufman's concept of a vampire being the standard bearer for old - style morality and romance is an inherently funny conceit helped immensely by a straight - faced lead performance by Hamilton.

At the same time, thinking about ethics only in terms of ordinary morality, of the general idea of what it means to be a good person, is also insufficient.

As a global health organization focusing on sexual and reproductive health and rights, Planned Parenthood Global faces even greater challenges as we navigate cultural and societal ideas about gender, sex, and morality.