Scripture interrogates Christians» lives; they are «formed in
the kinds of moral judgment necessary for them to live faithfully as friends of God.»
But this does not mean that there is no place for
the kind of moral judgment that is relevant to mature experience and that makes men uneasy, more fully aware of the consequences of their decisions, more sensitive to the dark side of their culture.
The researchers concluded that the right temporal parietal junction not only was activated during
this kind of moral judgment but was pivotal in adding intent to the moral equation and determining the volunteers» point of view.
Over the past four years, Greene has scanned dozens of people making
these kinds of moral judgments.
There's a lot of talk out there labeling carbs as either «good» or «bad,» but I prefer to keep
that kind of moral judgment out of my relationship with food.
Not exact matches
How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential
judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any
kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical
moral authority?
Yet to begin ethical reflection at this point invariably seems to result in arbitrarily separating the
moral judgment of an action from the
kind of person who performs it.
And yet Wilson steps away from a
moral judgment even here: He tells us merely that the second choice will not be chosen because it is «inconceivable,» that no society
of this
kind, which destroys its young, «could ever exist.»
No doctrinal statement or
moral judgment of any
kind is privileged in this respect.
Without the affirmation
of a
moral universe, without the recognition
of some
kind of realm
of «ultimacy,» there can be no ontological basis on which we can justify making
moral judgments at all.
These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source
of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or elimination
of particular
kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged;
moral judgment of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around sense
of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence
of malnutrition.
In fact, the pressure not to apply
moral standards is more likely to produce an ethic
of indifference, not one
of true tolerance — as young people learn not to pass
judgment on all
kinds of horrendous practices, especially when they are nonwestern.
What must already have happened to one's
moral compass for one to be the
kind of person who is able to speak this way, let alone to have «notified... the family»
of this «reason» for
judgment?