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.»
But I do not dispute the propriety of a legal regulator
making those moral judgments.
Try to avoid
making moral judgments about the person; that will almost certainly escalate the problem.
Criticizing an ethicist for
making moral judgments would be like taking to task a movie reviewer who makes aesthetic judgments about the latest films.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Of course, no one objects to
your making moral judgments.
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.
Amazon's huge scale should make us wary of allowing it to
make moral judgments on our behalf.
Yet we are still human beings, and one of the things that separates us from other animals is that
we make moral judgments.
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.
Jake — Why would that «twist» take away someone's ability to
make a moral judgment about homosexuality?
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.
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.
Her goal, she explains, is to learn more about why intentions matter to us when
we make moral judgments.
How do we separate the self from the other,
make moral judgments, or decide how much money to save for retirement?
«
We make moral judgments so automatically that we don't really understand how they're formed,» he says.
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.
Like Kubrick, Field doesn't
make any moral judgments about his characters, and his film remains stubbornly enigmatic.
• 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.
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.
He argues that human beings often
make a moral judgment first, then attempt to justify a reason.
«Don't
make moral judgments about parties.»
Insurance companies don't
make moral judgments about who is named as beneficiary.
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.»
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.
Not exact matches
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.