Sentences with phrase «moral agents»

We have been created as free moral agents capable of using our own mind, will and emotions.

At home and abroad, we will seek to serve as moral agents to build rightly ordered and just societies respecting the dignity of all persons.

There are no other moral agents in the universe.

The human orientation toward good is so fundamental that even when moral agents do evil, they inevitably seek to redefine it as good.

But more than that, they take on the far larger dignity of becoming moral agents of history.

Yet he is not the only moral agent in the narrative.

Our creator offers us this, but as free moral agents we can of course choose.

As moral agents we have to apply rules in a way that is sensitive to the situation.

These people are moral agents with free will who have chosen to make a living by violating the Terms of Service of an online community.

Plantinga need only acknowledge that the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.

All else being equal, the contribution of moral agents who can experience the world in a rich and deep sense will be grater than that of less developed and less complex experiencers of the world.

As is discussed above, one of the presuppositions — for better or worse — of the democratic tradition produced by the Enlightenment is the idea of autonomous moral agents participating in public decision - making, and being free to make decisions regarding their own lives in the private sphere.

Although God could exercise all power, God instead chooses to delegate power to a self - regulating nature and self - determining moral agents.

Seligman, a Weberian - oriented sociologist, simply assumes a straight - line secularization theory and focuses on the internal problem of the «civil society tradition,» namely, once society is held to derive from the choice of individual moral agents, sociality per se is secondary, epiphenomenal.

Those who would defend the custom in order to preserve the integrity of Dinka tradition and beliefs fail to distinguish between moral agents and their particular actions.

The central irony of the moral life is that by simply not taking ourselves so seriously, we may become more serious moral agents and more serious Christians.

This failure to grasp the universal nature of ideality also results in animals, however virtuous, not qualifying as full - fledged moral agents (AAMB 52) 4

If Christ died according to the «definite plan and foreknowledge of God,» is there any justice in seeing the pathetic Judas or Pilate or the Sanhedrin as the exclusively, or even primarily, accountable moral agents?

Unlike animals, we are moral agents capable of sinning by...

Like Kantian moral agents members of such communities make and reflectively endorse the commitments that bind them.

Indeed, the keynote address by Minow, the Bloomberg Professor of Law at HLS, continued the collaboration, which provided a fitting example of the kind of community - building promoted by Kohlberg, a professor at HGSE in the 1970s and»80s who has influenced several generations of scholars with his theory that children are inherently moral agents.

If we act as disconnected, indignant moral agents, we surrender the only power we have: the power to think and act collectively.

Secondly, I do not believe that «the possible world containing Hitler's actions — i.e., the actual world — contains the greatest net amount of good over evil of any possible world containing free moral agents which God was free to actualize.»

«It is a reminder that morality isn't confined to the realms of the religious and that humans don't need faith to be good, moral agents in the world,» he says.

In other words, it can be argued that every possible world containing free moral agents must be a world characterized by regularity.

Its essence is that what we have to do as moral agents is determined by the fact that we serve in this world the living God who is our Creator and Redeemer.

My point is if god created us as independent, reasoning, moral agents he should be able to see the world from our perspective.

If I just eschew all my reason and ability to be a moral agent... by defining god as «all good» regardless of intent or action, I am now «amoral»... I am acting and reasoning without any morals.

It might well be that God could not — that the creation of truly free entities was the only way God could create the potential for the positive values related to freedom without negating God's own integrity and destroying the dignity and true worth of the moral agents in question (RS 500 - 02).

It is a machine, not a moral agent, and no one will hold the drone responsible morally or legally for what it does.

But always within limits; there is no complete freedom for anybody, It is important to affirm man's freedom of will, or as it was put in the older diction, to say that man «is a free moral agent,» for otherwise all idea of morality and of sin collapses.

The claim that actions are «undetermined,» however, is not the same as the claim that there are no identifiable variables that influence the moral agent making those choices.

In what sense are we free, moral agents?