Sentences with phrase «moral analysis which»

The reason why people keep referring to Marxism is because it is a system of historical, philosophical and moral analysis which ends in some rather bleak proscriptions for modern society that ironically converge amazingly with the Green political agenda.

Not exact matches

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.

McCarthy's focus on personal moral failure does not square with Marxism, which demands systemic analysis.

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.

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 all.

It is ultimately dependent upon an analysis of the self as some sort of self - enclosed independently existing entity and produces precisely the difficulty for ethics that has been erroneously attributed to Whitehead, namely that his ethics would be a private - interest theory, at best.1 But Whitehead clearly repudiates the contributing analysis of the self, which would be «no more original than a stone» (PR 159), and repudiates its consequences for ethics: «The doctrine of minds, as independent substances, leads directly not merely to private worlds of experience, but also to private worlds of morals.

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

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.

It is proper, educationally, to speak of students who «do» theology or Bible study or moral analysis, utilizing the skills which we have helped them to develop.

She, naturally, disliked it, but her beef was with the presentation of the violence, which I found very interesting — that is, her objection to the film seemed to be on a moral basis, and, though I ultimately disagree with her analysis, she nevertheless makes a lot of convincing points.

Studying the Holocaust and human behavior allows students to wrestle with profound moral questions raised by this history while fostering their skills in ethical and moral reasoning, critical analysis, empathy, and civic engagement — all of which are critical habits of mind for sustaining democracy.

In fact, this learning curve analysis would suggest that CDR faces the opposite of a «moral hazard» problem — because CDR remains so far behind other renewable technologies, we will keep building more and more renewables and neglect to develop CDR, which will seem expensive by comparison.