Sentences with phrase «moral certitude»

Given how much ink has been spilled on the subject by an obsessed and advocating press, and the strong moral certitude with which Democratic (and occasional Republican) members of the House and Senate are making their evolutionary pronouncements, it is difficult to remember that at this time last year, the issue of gay marriage had much less energy surrounding it.

Further, we recognize that the need to reduce moral dilemmas full of gray zones to black - and - white issues, and the desire to be able to declare moral certitude in tight, precise phrases, characterizes a stage of moral development which is somewhat less than the highest.

For Descartes, moral certitude and the subject of God is the proper domain of the intellect and the spirit.

As a result, the reception by the faithful of developments ensues from an exercise of moral certitude.

On the other hand, for the dualist of Paul's day, ironically, the split between mind and matter was the basis of moral certitude.

Andy Burnham, Harriet Harman and Ed Miliband all walked into such eminently predictable elephant traps because their moral certitude blinded them to the politically obvious.

This film, along with Django Unchained, has brought the audacity of questioning the moral certitude of the American people and their history to the forefront of mainstream cinema.

As for Joe's lethal skills, they're comic book stuff (or maybe «graphic novel» is more like it, with an emphasis on «graphic») and deployed with the moral certitude of an Old Testament pronouncement: Thou shalt not abduct young girls, or else.

With her bow and arrow, eagle eye, and the moral certitude of Joan of Arc, Katniss takes the fight right into the heart of the Capitol, along with her band of renegades.

Bruce Beresford draws on a controversial episode of Australian colonial history from 1901 to create an electrifying drama that questions the moral certitude of war.

She brings a manic bathos to these scenes that lends them both gravity and levity; in every wide, glassy pair of eyes, grave questions of moral certitude are undercut by the absurd.

«As science has gotten closer and closer to pinning down the reality of human - caused climate change and its consequences,» Cain writes, «our moral certitude has frayed.»

Let's hope the Heartland Institute pursues this perfidious document leaker with the same vigor, moral certitude, and righteous fury with which they went after the criminal who stole the climate scientist emails.