Sentences with phrase «matter of moral principle»

By contrast, a child's right to protection from a parent's brutality is a matter of both moral principle and law which the courts will enforce.

On the Protestant side, therefore, matters of moral principle were discussed differently.

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Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

Because of this, at least, the physician is also a moral person, the subject of an ethical imperative addressed to him, no matter to what he attributes this absolute principle.

This is significant when we remember that most of the controversial moral questions (for example, contraception) are matters of application of more general principles.

(2) Freedom of choice should be allowed in those matters on which a plurality of views are held — views based on well - articulated principles rooted in cultural tradition or widely recognized moral, philosophical and religious beliefs.

I also indicated that the state should permit freedom of choice on matters where a plurality of views are held, based on well - articulated principles rooted in cultural tradition or widely recognized moral, philosophical or religious beliefs.

Prudence is not a matter of splitting the difference between opposed positions; it is the moral and political art of incorporating principles in public policy.

Rightly understood, faith and justice are in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human existence, of authentic self - understanding in trust and loyalty in response to God's love, justice is a matter of human action, whether right action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).

Whether such instances are more or less frequent at any particular place or time makes no difference to the fact, which is taken so much as a matter of course, that traditional moral theology is scarcely really aware of the problem of principle which is in fact raised by it.

For the past decade I've devoted myself almost exclusively to the contemplation and exposition of matters of abstract principle — philosophy, theology, morals, education.

(a) It completely does away with any Christian doctrine of sin, for sin is no longer the result of a moral choice made in rebellion against God by the mind and the heart of man; sin is simply a physical principle in matter and in all that is composed of matter.

He notes that, traditionally, moral reasoning has been seen as a matter of conscious analysis — to identify pre-existing moral principles and then apply them.

Achilles in myth also courts the displeasure of the gods, as a matter of principle, and both characters with this name are willing to challenge conventional expectations or assigned roles in life, to act upon their moral convictions.

Mr. Monckton is, I have little doubt just as much of an atheist regarding Hinduism or Islam as I am, recognizing that they are far from proven, in direct contradiction with all sorts of matters of fact and moral principles that we now take for granted, and hence that it is not reasonable to accord them any particular degree of plausible belief.

Many congratulations on synthesising a coherent, wide - ranging, global argument base which should, as a matter of principle, priority and moral rectitude, be urgent reading material for all Public Politicians, functionaries and policy makers globally.

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.»