Sentences with phrase «important moral principle»
It would be one thing if it could be shown that God was limited to certain interventions by some important moral principle or by the nature of the events or by God's own limited abilities.
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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.»
Assuming that this statement of principles for a conception of human rights backed by neoclassical metaphysics can be given a detailed formulation and defense, we may repeat that a moral and political theory of this kind is the more important because the alternative it offers is largely neglected in the contemporary discussion.
Because we can not directly observe the behavior of biblical people or interview them about their moral values and principles, it is all the more important to study the biblical forms of moral discourse — the many ways in which these values and judgments are expressed.
Although space will not permit exploration of the point here, it is important to note that Christian thought about just war predated the rise of the modern state system in the 17th century, and rests on fundamental moral principles not essentially tied to that system.
Arkes is particularly valuable in his exploration of the limited use of philosophy as he discusses the moral principles that necessarily underlie many of the most important constitutional decisions.
America must not in any way surrender its devotion to freedom and democracy, although it is always important for Americans to remind themselves that freedom does not mean license and that popular opinion does not preclude moral principle.
Hartshorne, like Jonathan Bennett, is willing to hold that just as good moral principles can check bad desires, so also sympathy can check bad principles.8 Sympathy is not brute and non-moral (or immoral), as Kant thought, but an important component of the moral life which should be in reflective equilibrium with our moral principles.
Moskop thus makes at least three important claims in his brief essay: I) that the five theses adequately and unambiguously represent the framework of Hartshorne's moral philosophy, 2) that Hartshorne's metaphysics justifies not only a broad understanding of altruism but rather a dependence upon an understanding of the principle of utility quite similar to that of utilitarianism, and 3) that in both Hartshorne's moral philosophy and his metaphysics the claims of justice are necessarily subordinate to those of utility.
It is indeed true that a way out of this multiplicity and diversity was striven for; the scribes at the time of Jesus discussed the question of the central requirement of the Law, and they sought to classify, to combine, or to set up certain moral principles as fundamentally important.
23: 24) This is also the reason for the preponderance of prohibitions (there are 365 as compared with 278 positive commands), and for the infinitely detailed requirements, for the lack of broad moral principles, and for the total ignoring of important aspects of life.
The real situation in which the Christian of today has to make his moral decisions is in any case such that in very many and very important instances, the decision can no longer be the simple and obvious application of the principles concerning essences, even if he respects these as absolutely and universally valid.
In a thoughtful assessment of Berlin's achievement («A Dissent on Isaiah Berlin,» Commentary, February 1999), Norman Podhoretz has argued that, despite its important contribution in its time, Berlin's essay is at bottom intellectually unsatisfying: It does not propose a principled, but only a pragmatic, defense of pluralism, and it fails to grapple satisfactorily with a problem that Berlin notes but never seriously addresses — the problem of moral relativism.
On the most important points the moral principles of the Decalogue remain basic.
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.»
Like all of Rohmer's films, this one observes a moral dilemma in which some people act well and others badly; it has the visual beauty of an engraving, a pace that echoes the inexorable progress of the revolution, and the belief that it is less important whether you are Left or Right than whether you behave bravely in accord with your principles.
How can schools inspire and teach students to be moral people — to care about and take responsibility for others, to think clearly about and pursue justice, to sacrifice for important principles?
Business Ethics: It's important to learn professional ethics and moral principles that are applied to guide the actions taken in any business organization, and that's why it's mandatory for management students to study this subject.
Forming Waypoint Properties was the next step in his career and has given him the platform needed to build a company founded on the principles he considers the most important for a real estate professional to possess: expertise in the field of real estate, a strong work ethic, an even stronger moral code, and the compassion and caring to form relationships of trust and respect with fellow agents and customers.