Sentences with phrase «inherent moral purpose»

Once we see that the conscientious pursuit of knowledge is the inherent moral purpose of schooling, we will not be surprised by the absence of any agreement about which civic virtues ought to be taught in schools.

Not exact matches

This kerfuffle shows that technology doesn't hold to any inherent moral or ethical value: The same algorithms used for legitimate purposes can be turned to more nefarious goals.

To capture a robust sense of moral purpose, contemporary notions about self - fulfillment must be discarded along with romantic notions about inherent goodness.

But there is certainly nothing inherent in the standard free - will perspective that requires the FWT to hold that God's primary purpose for creating free creatures was to make it possible for God to «enjoy the value of knowing that those of us who developed moral character and spiritual virtue... did so freely» (ER 18).

In many passages it is obvious that the idea of God inherent in Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destiny.

«2 What he has in mind is not the ongoing and largely unconscious operation of the inherent ethos of a congregation but its conscious attention to moral issues raised for the purpose of making a Christian decision about them.

Once one has provided a moral purpose for the use of any particular technology, one is justified in adapting to the requirements inherent in that particular technology.