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It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum's moral analysis in» Blood for Blood» and» They Did It» is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply to all uses of the death penalty by modern states.

Not exact matches

Someone in search of political and moral understanding would, in my opinion, be far better off giving close attention to the most recent of Norman Podhoretz's series of superb analyses of the post ¯ September 11 situation.

The AAC monograph, for instance, identifies nine «methods and processes, modes of access to understanding and judgment» (ICC 15) that it thinks are essential to know: logical analysis, verbal literacy, numerical understanding, historical awareness, scientific method, informed and responsible moral choice, art appreciation and experience, international and multicultural experiences, and study of one field in depth.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

But in every case, suitable moral analysis....

He sharply distinguished the moral sphere from the cosmological one and justified belief in God based on his analysis of this dimension of experience.

Kimelman, a professor at Brandeis University, concludes in his analysis of the commission's report that «It remains to be seen whether a modern nation state, beseiged on so many fronts, can maintain such a demanding moral standard... If the Israeli effort to admit and rectify errors bears fruit, the lyricism «a light to the nations» may yet become reality.»

Further, the foundational role that physics plays for metaphysics is, in the final analysis, what allows theologians coherently to defend questions of faith and morals.

Some, in recent decades, have turned to an analysis of «civil religion,» which at its best is the awareness that there are universalistic moral sensitivities which have developed out of the American experience.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

Boingboing agreed in its own analysis, concluding «the moral of the story: make sure you know what you're worth before asking for more money.»

«The great political questions,» Bryan insisted, «are in the final analysis great moral questions.»

To some, for example, his specific analyses of moral acts and habits (the «virtues») remain an invaluable resource for contemporary ethical reflection once these are rescued from their place in the neo-Platonic structure of the Summa.

However much we admire his moral grandeur and accept the way of life he presented, are we in the last analysis merely temporary inhabitants of a world that offers us much that helps and much that hurts, but a world that cares nothing about us one way or the other?

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experiencIn this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experiencin connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experiencin our experience.

But in keeping with his overall objective and his guiding metaphor of «diagnosis,» he must not omit from his moral analysis factors that are essential to a full understanding of the crisis.

to be logically impossible.95 If, however, Neville's demand for an ontological analysis can be sustained, Whiteheadians may then be forced to deal with the problems of being and the one and the many (perhaps by wedding Neville's Platonic - Augustinian ontology to process metaphysics, a possibility Neville himself entertains].96 Even so, two of Neville's most crucial claims remain debatable: (1) that indeterminate Being - Itself — without definiteness and beyond description — is supremely deserving of religious devotion, 97 and (2) that the process God — personal, the pervasive source of moral ideals, and the supreme agent in the achievement of these aims — is not.

The author is Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, the publisher is Doubleday, and the price should be no obstacle to a book that offers a fresh analysis of what has gone wrong with the Church in America, a convincing case for encouragement, wise counsel on how to engage the public square and, not incidentally, restored confidence in the ability of (some) bishops to teach on faith and morals.

In Brunner's The Divine Imperative, and in Reinhold Niebuhr's writings we have been given profound analyses of the moral probleIn Brunner's The Divine Imperative, and in Reinhold Niebuhr's writings we have been given profound analyses of the moral problein Reinhold Niebuhr's writings we have been given profound analyses of the moral problem.

Besides specifying the relation of human and moral values to the truth of the human person, John Paul also makes clear that in the final analysis, values are grounded in God Himself.

It is now defended on the basis of personal religious experience and on the ground of an analysis of its essence in which the supremacy of its moral character is disclosed.

As I thought I had made reasonably clear in my article, the just war way of thinking about the moral exigencies of world politics begins with a presumption for justice — a presumption that the magistrate has the moral obligation to defend the common good, even at the risk of his own life — and then proceeds to a moral analysis of the various means available for securing justice, which can include proportionate and discriminate armed force.

A professor at Ohio University, Jeffrey Herf has written a thoughtful exercise in moral, cultural, and political analysis.

It continues to shake the foundations of all moral systems invented by men, it relativizes all social hierarchies, and, in the final analysis, it shows up the hollowness of all humanly constructed orders.

As the older moral pattern declines in persuasiveness, the only remaining category for the analysis and evaluation of human motives is interest, which by now has replaced both virtue and conscience in our moral vocabulary.

In this respect, even though we might want to affirm that man has some degree of free choice as to whether or not he will abide by such laws, the moral universe would still be a realm of external determination which would, in the final analysis, depend on some nonhuman rationality, if it were assumed to be rational at alIn this respect, even though we might want to affirm that man has some degree of free choice as to whether or not he will abide by such laws, the moral universe would still be a realm of external determination which would, in the final analysis, depend on some nonhuman rationality, if it were assumed to be rational at alin the final analysis, depend on some nonhuman rationality, if it were assumed to be rational at all.

Still, in the final analysis, our history makes us what we are now, and the conventions of our present social, political, economic and moral world constitute a realm of external determination on our lives.

A final issue regarding the analysis of moral standards in a Whiteheadian ethics remains.

Conformity to that moral code and obedience to the ethical principle at which the analysis in this section arrives should coincide.

This seems to be the statute of limitations in the commentariat on radical moral relativism and its «real world» political offspring — appeasement strategies, moral equivalence theories, «root cause» analyses of terrorism, nonsense about «violence begetting violence,» and self - loathing anti-Americanism of the most vulgar sort.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

Accordingly, the common life of a theological school that educates those who lead and nurture communities of Christians in that life must in high moral seriousness focus above all on the nature and demands of that activity and on analysis of the society in which it must be lived.

Similarly, attempts to fight the new Gnosticism with the weapons of logic deployed in service to moral truth are almost certainly doomed to be frustrated, because public life is not, in the final analysis, an exercise in logic alone.

On the polemical front, Luther had a sharp analysis of the sexual life and morals of the clergy in Against the Spiritual Estate of the Pope and the Bishops falsely so - called.

In fact, when deprived of an explicit metaphysical - moral underpinning, the ideologies of either capitalism or socialism themselves take on cultish form, complete with secularized high priests, denominational orthodoxies, doctrinal disputes, and ritual excommunications all under the garb of social analysis.

This formula is perhaps better suited to rhetorical use in public discourse than for rigorous intellectual analysis (where the battle to vindicate natural law should continue), but «the received moral wisdom of the American people» is far from being an expression of empty propaganda.

Contrastingly, Peter Bristow's analysis of postconciliar moral thought in Christian Ethics and the Human Person exemplifies the theologian's responsibility to gain «an ever deeper understanding of the Word of God... handed on faithfully by the Church's living Tradition under the guidance of the Magisterium» (CDF 1990, no. 21).

The Chronicle of Higher Education and Change have been much concerned about values recently, as have the American Association of Higher Education and the other Washington - based educational agencies; the Danforth Foundation recently held a workshop on values in liberal arts education, and the whole issue has been given academic credibility by programs in moral development and in value analysis at several universities.

It is because of their lack of such alternate grounding that most of the current efforts in «value analysis» and «moral development» seem so frail.

And one could go on and on with this kind of analysis, showing that fundamentalists have a fairly predictable — and common — structure in their moral discourse, that their discourse contains certain distinctions about self, knowledge, agency, authority, community, and the like.

Created by Dr. Alexander Leveringhaus, who specializes in moral responsibility and robotic weapons, this initiative analyses how militaries can design ethically responsible combat systems using increasingly sophisticated and potentially autonomous technology.

What is strange, however, is that so many voices within Israel perceive this moral case to be internally coherent and justified when a brief analysis finds it woefully lacking in both logic and foundation.

A study in the June 2011 Cyberpsychology by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles, used a novel form of content analysis to examine changes in the moral values communicated by television programming over a 50 - year period.

Azim Shariff, a psychologist at the University of Oregon in Eugene, says it contrasts with his analysis that, taken as a whole, previous research found no overall effect of religion on adults faced with these kind of moral tests.

The study, the first large - scale analysis of its kind, suggests that religion and moral behavior don't necessarily go hand - in - hand for children.

Topics introduced here include: theoretical and applied ethics, moral pluralism, the differences between absolutism, relativism and pluralism and prudential reasoning as a tool of ethical analysis in health coaching.

In the Charter of the Moscow Noble Guesthouse (school for noblemen) the following literary activities were spread among the students: «speeches about scientific and moral subjects, analyses of their own compositions, analyses of the best Russian writers» (Ibidem, p. 435).

All lessons are fully differentiated by colour: Purple = lower ability Blue = middle ability Yellow = higher ability Red = most able These resources cover the following areas of act 2 and 3 - Context - socialism and capitalism, men and women, trade unions, Priestley's moral message, welfare state - Exploration of the theme of responsibility - character analysis - theme analysis - Assessments in line with 9 - 1 success criteria - homework tasks - opportunities for debate and persuasive writing (prep for lang exam)- opportunities for imaginative writing (prep for lang exam)- development of tension - Analysis of Priestley's sanalysis - theme analysis - Assessments in line with 9 - 1 success criteria - homework tasks - opportunities for debate and persuasive writing (prep for lang exam)- opportunities for imaginative writing (prep for lang exam)- development of tension - Analysis of Priestley's sanalysis - Assessments in line with 9 - 1 success criteria - homework tasks - opportunities for debate and persuasive writing (prep for lang exam)- opportunities for imaginative writing (prep for lang exam)- development of tension - Analysis of Priestley's sAnalysis of Priestley's structure

We know from analyses of college dropout and job failures that such outcomes are less the result of intellectual shortcomings than they are due to deficiencies in the social - emotional and character competencies (or moral and performance character, if you prefer that terminology).

Novels like A Fault in Our Stars and The Pigman are wonderful opportunities for discussing nuanced literary concepts like moral dilemmas, and such books often feature relatable characters that provide opportunities for analysis and discussion.