Sentences with phrase «make moral judgments»

We suspected that the importance of loyalty and purity are the key reasons why people make those moral judgments, more so than if someone was harmed.

In its first public statement on the matter, the Holy See expressed «grave ethical concerns» and said most critical is «the lack of ability for pre-programmed, automated technical systems to make moral judgments over life and death, to respect human rights, and to comply with the principle of humanity.»

Insurance companies don't make moral judgments about who is named as beneficiary.

«Don't make moral judgments about parties.»

These days, animals are not tried on the basis that they lack the ability to make moral judgments and therefore can not be held culpable for an act.

Like Kubrick, Field doesn't make any moral judgments about his characters, and his film remains stubbornly enigmatic.

«We make moral judgments so automatically that we don't really understand how they're formed,» he says.

How do we separate the self from the other, make moral judgments, or decide how much money to save for retirement?

Her goal, she explains, is to learn more about why intentions matter to us when we make moral judgments.

People with broad human sympathies and deep feelings are often reluctant to make moral judgments about others and often feel that morality is a cold and heartless business.

On the other hand, the chief problem with the view of the new reformers is that it fails to recognize that a sexual self, liberated from undertakings that have a moral claim upon it prior to any of its particular intentions and choices, has no satisfactory way to make moral judgments about what it intends, chooses, promises, and then undertakes.

Yet we are still human beings, and one of the things that separates us from other animals is that we make moral judgments.

Amazon's huge scale should make us wary of allowing it to make moral judgments on our behalf.

Throughout the book, they repeatedly state that economists are not in the business of making moral judgments but of coldly assessing data and analyzing cause and effect.

Jake — Why would that «twist» take away someone's ability to make a moral judgment about homosexuality?

Of course, no one objects to your making moral judgments.

Science itself is incapable of making moral judgments and it is not really too wild a step of the imagination to think of a situation where scientific knowledge is valued more highly than human lives.

It would seem, then, that we are left with no basis for making our moral judgments and decisions that is in any way genuinely moral.

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.

Hence, Mill can urge that utilitarianism be adopted on the grounds that it is the only plausible theory which can accomplish the all - important function of making moral judgments rational or systematic.

In addition, by arguing that capture can not be pursued when there is «undue risk» to American personnel, the U.S. is making a moral judgment about whose lives should be prioritized.

The ultimate goal is to understand how the brain makes moral judgments.

The participant is asked to disregard the prime and make a moral judgment on whether the target word is wrong or neutral, or somewhere in between, in under a second.

• Genuinely interesting idea left thoroughly unexplored: Galen Erso's decision to become a collaborator with the Empire so that he could build a weakness into the Death Star, and what it means to make a moral judgment to become an accomplice in the murder of millions in hopes of saving billions.

Criticizing an ethicist for making moral judgments would be like taking to task a movie reviewer who makes aesthetic judgments about the latest films.

Try to avoid making moral judgments about the person; that will almost certainly escalate the problem.

But I do not dispute the propriety of a legal regulator making those moral judgments.

He argues that human beings often make a moral judgment first, then attempt to justify a reason.

In sum, I have no qualms with Mr. Sirota's point that judges «should not shy away from making the moral judgments constitutional text requires.»

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Such an admission makes clear that more is at stake on this issue than a new moral judgment of homosexuality.

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?

«From this history of the Bible in early American history,» Noll writes in his concluding chapter, «the moral judgment that makes the most sense to me rests on a difference between Scripture for oneself and Scripture for others.»

To suggest otherwise is to make something of a moral and spiritual judgment.

The major flaw in your question is that you made the judgment that God is immoral based on your own morals.

Then, Jesus is in no sense making a moral valuation or announcing a divine intervention or a coming judgment; he simply describes the reality of what is happening.

But Novak persuasively suggests that there are three such rights: first, that God hear the cry of our prayer; second, that He tell us how we should live; and, third, that He render judgment on our actions, thus making us moral agents of consequence.

Troeltsch, by way of contrast, was well versed in the social science of his time, and sought to make careful use of it in his theological, political and moral judgments.

It removes the necessity for you to question human morals or to make your own moral decisions, because it lays out a set of simple rules upon which you will always fall back if things get a little too confusing or uncomfortable for independent judgment or consideration.

So, though I believe that the primary note in Jesus, understanding of the kingdom was the rule of God with a moral and spiritual message of the judgment, yet the loving kindness of God and of God's call to faithful obedience in all things, I do not believe that this prophetic note makes it necessary to reject wholly the apocalyptic.

As to your claim about the keys being used to determine moral right and wrong, I don't see that anywhere in Matthew 16 or Isaiah 22, and although the Jewish people may have understood this as referring to such judgments, they understood then (and even today) that moral judgments are made by God alone and through a proper understanding of what God has said in Scripture.

And when a moral judgment call is made without grace, it's not truth — it's slander.

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.

Its vastness, its diversity, on the whole, its lack of discriminating judgment as to what may be called sacred — so that it includes both the highly moral and the base — make it a literature difficult for peoples of Hebrew - Christian backgrounds to appreciate fully.

Christians» moral judgments are informed by the teaching of the Bible and especially the New Testament, although decisions should not be made by merely quoting a text.

It is a directive based upon moral doctrine and might best be described as a prudential judgment made by «legitimate ecclesiastical superiors» and to be followed by all under their authority.

Our moral judgments, both in respect to ourselves and to others, must therefore be made in terms of the general direction in which we are moving.

When practicing the Law of Love, we are pretty much «flying by the seat of our pants,» relying on common sense and intuition rather than a moral manual or theological dogmas to keep us from making errors in judgment.

Complex moral decisions made with the counsel of family, friends and medical professionals are of quite a different order from the lonely judgment reached by someone for whom life is «no longer worth living.»

Stated formally, we may put the question this way: On what grounds are we to base our judgments of value and thus our moral, social and political decision - making?

The older I get and the more I learn, the less qualified I become to make correct moral judgments; that may not stop me from having to make them — an event must be assessed before it can be blessed — but I have learned with hindsight that with all the goodwill in the world I may be wrong, and it is only by offering my judgments to God that they can be redeemed and blessed.