Sentences with phrase «moral arguments»

Since this happened over two years ago, progress to give full effect to the Declaration has been slow, despite the strong legal and moral arguments for the Australian Government to take concrete action.

Do not talk about how you are a long - time loyal customer and do not raise moral arguments.

Other moral arguments support the claim as well.

But the point we have made here, many times, is that science can not produce moral arguments.

Which is rather rich coming from somebody who has just demonstrated that he doesn't know what those he calls «deniers» are denying, or what «science says», let alone somebody who has to make up what «science says» in order to make moral arguments about «deniers».

Lucas neither accurately nor honestly reflects scientific opinion, yet attempts to use it to win moral arguments.

And the more these assets are stranded, the easier it is to move on the moral arguments as well.

This blog is concerned more with the political and moral arguments which putatively emerge from climate science.

People (the public, the media, and so forth) naturally wonder, if only 1 percent of all ethicists, spiritual leaders, moral philosophers, other philosophers, «wise women and men», and so forth are speaking out in ethical / moral terms, then those ethical / moral arguments must truly be «not all that important», or «highly controversial and not broadly accepted», or «only held by theoretical folks», or whatever.

Otherwise moral arguments over climate, energy and humanitarian projects are meaningless.

As an example, consider our fourth reason: religious discourse can clarify and deepen moral arguments about if, when, and why geoengineering might be considered.

But, as I wrote in a comment on that post, «It's important not to conclude that moral arguments for action on global warming, even conveyed by a pope, are a world - changing breakthrough.

But I posted a comment on the importance of considering the moral arguments for action on global warming in the context of the many other moral questions surrounding human development.

Lots of goofy moral arguments, absolutely no logical, mathematical arguments.

Leaving moral arguments aside, if this is how the system is set up, taking advantage only makes sense.

Yet it is probably not the moral arguments that will prevail.

Many philosophical and moral arguments can be made to support school choice.

The learning objectives to be met are: All must: Compose moral arguments on animal testing for medical research and offer personal viewpoint.Most should: Explain why Christians have different views on animal testing for medical research.Some should: Evaluate different Christian views on animal testing for medical research, referring to bible teachings.

This has expanded both the constituency and the intellectual and moral arguments for vouchers, put the unions and their allies (including the Democrats) in the awkward position of opposing the poor in fierce political battles - and led to major voucher victories in Milwaukee, Cleveland, and Florida (not to mention the Supreme Court).

That failure to recognize that Rowling's moral arguments are as important as the visual and emotional spectacle of her novels is particularly evident in the changes David Yates made to Rowling's narrative in second Deathly Hallows movie.

We Own the Night contains a few interesting moral arguments, mostly stemming between the allegiance to duty and family vs. the right to free will and fulfilling your own destiny.

So although I don't fully agree with veganism at least from a nutritional standpoint (moral arguments aside), I also don't agree with our current state of affairs of the majority of our food supply of factory farm raised animal products (at least here in the US, where the condition of the factory farm animals and nutritional quality of the food is horrendous).

The Republican Party in particular has changed, and the moral arguments made in this Republican convention were very different.

In yet another example of Copycat Labour we learnt that Chief Secretary to the Treasury Andy Burnham conceded that there were moral arguments for using the tax system to encourage marriage.

The extraneous moral arguments are influenced by the morals of those making them.

From the roundtable discussion, and the wider moral arguments, it is clear that cloud still has some cross-border issues to word out.

By that time, the idea of a national income tax was being supported by moral arguments.

A second reason that moral arguments developed at this time, was that contemporary governments did not have extensive experience with income taxes.

Although there was still an urgency to resolve our national debt, the argument had been «romanticized» (in the author's words) to the point that serious moral arguments were made, rather than practical ones.

This is the largest facet of the moral arguments in favor of estate tax.

Many authors and medical organizations have called for boxing to be banned (Table 1), citing medical, ethical, legal, and moral arguments.8, — , 13 Others state that participants should be allowed to make autonomous decisions about participation and that the role of the medical profession should be restricted to the provision of injury care, advice, and information only.14

(Hollenbach and Hicks offer good reasons to be dubious of an approach limited to government policies unsupported by systematic moral arguments and changes in civic institutions,)

Can moral arguments backed by Catholic social doctrine be mustered in support of limiting or even cutting back on immigration?

I do so not because I am trying to use more popular essays to entice some to read the more «serious» essays — indeed, I think that the more popular essays are the more serious — but because, I am convinced, as a friend has put it, that «arguments, including moral arguments, can not be separated from the descriptions that not merely accompany them, but make them possible.»

In a lengthy letter published in La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper, the former pope answered theological and moral arguments from Piergiorgio Odifreddi, an Italian atheist and mathematician who had written about Benedict in 2011.

Ben Bova on the status of religiously based moral arguments, USA Today, June 8, 1999.

The Christian charity Tearfund has urged government ministers to consider the moral arguments against selling arms to Saudi Arabia following a High Court decision.

Some atheists make moral arguments against faith (how can God allow so much suffering?)

Alvin Plantinga, prof. of theology @ Notre Dame: he defends the notion of reformed epistemology, which states that if moral arguments for Christianity are true, then principles of the Christian faith are likely to be true as well.

Even today, our government uses moral arguments to press for popular support of the Free Trade Agreement of the Americas.

But the letter, though good on moral arguments, was weak on tactics.

This was at least in part because, despite his moral arguments, his call to arms was seen as specious and politically motivated.

In short, it makes worse the problem of irresolvable moral arguments between people.

Good intentions and delicate sensibilities are not moral arguments.

Long ago, Aristotle pointed out that moral arguments are not like geometrical ones.

Mr. Blair's point is that such arguments should be allowed and encouraged in the public sphere as valid means of making moral arguments.

Still, many nonteleological Kantians do advance strictly moral arguments against teleological ethics.

But the meta - ethical character of moral discourse can not itself be the criterion in terms of which sound and unsound moral arguments can be distinguished in or through discourse.

«But in the past several years, a new current has arisen in conservative evangelical thought: A small but significant number of theologians, psychologists, and other conservative Christians are beginning to develop moral arguments that it's possible to affirm same - sex relationships not in spite of orthodox theology, but within it.

The moral arguments against pornography are well - known, and recently, several big - name celebrities and sources like Time magazine have been warning about the effects porn has on the brain.