Sentences with phrase «moral choices in»

Reading Habits of the Heart was the biggest «gotcha» of my career because I realized how much I'd absorbed the culture of what the authors called «expressive individualism,» which constrained me from engaging clients about the complexity of moral choices in everyday life.

In a recent interview with Destructoid, lead designer Mike Laidlaw discussed not only why moral choices in games so often disappoint, but how Dragon Age: Origins plans to deliver more than a superficial heroes and villains simulator.

Even when a valid moral code or constitution is accepted as relevant and binding by a society, it can not direct individual moral choices in any univocal fashion.

We're discussing Zenimax Online's decision to implement full voice acting and give players moral choice in The Elder Scrolls Online in this week's TESO column.

Not exact matches

(There's a whiff of moral superiority to Freshii's filing, too: «In stark contrast to the sugar - heavy desserts sold by the Plaintiffs, Freshii branded restaurants provide quick, fresh and nutritious meal choices to customers around the world.»)

For these leaders, there is no other choice but to pursue relentlessly a depth of moral character grounded in legacy values, and as a result, to build a powerful memory that echoes into the future.

«The Lakitu: A Tale of Friendship» breaks that trend in the best way possible: ethically questionable moral choices!

That's the real truth, and that's why people are fascinated by other ways which have remained less disturbed by the Gospel that really grips this society, which is that there should be no constraint on individual consumer choice in goods or morals.

The clearest example of a deliberate adoption of one value at the expense of another, a judicial resolution that continues to distort public choice and moral discourse, may be found in the 1973 abortion decision of Roe v. Wade.

As a gay Christian, however, I was concerned by the way Williamson freighted in the idea of homosexuality as a choice» hence subject to the same kind of moral decision - making as drug use or stealing.

2) Make it clear in public that if you don't like the rock and roll, there are plenty of other churches, with hints that this decision is a moral choice which reflects badly on you, not the community.

(This is organizationally verified by United Methodist agencies» maintaining membership in the Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice [RCRC], a political lobby that defends and advances all abortion rights, and that opposes all moral arguments, political moves, and legal decisions against abortion.

It is a place of darkness to which all dead go regardless of the moral choices made in life and where they are «removed from the light of God.»

Back some of these people into a corner with a moral dilemma with limited choices and I think its fair to question whether or not they will act something like the Christian husband did in that movie.

If you want to chose what your morals are that's fine but my beliefs are actually that morals are somehting that are already in place, and the choice is whether or not to choose to follow those already set morals.

The best single article I've seen on the moral case for parental choice in education is «School Choice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, Berchoice in education is «School Choice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, BerChoice as Simple Justice,» published in First Things (April 1992) and written by Prof. John Coons of the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.

In ignoring Augustine's reflections on virtue in On Free Choice of the Will, the contemporary church misses an indispensable resource for reconstituting moral visioIn ignoring Augustine's reflections on virtue in On Free Choice of the Will, the contemporary church misses an indispensable resource for reconstituting moral visioin On Free Choice of the Will, the contemporary church misses an indispensable resource for reconstituting moral vision.

I think I'm too simple in my thinking that; if you don't like it, DO N'T WATCH... if you don't agree with it, DO N'T CHOOSE TO LIVE YOUR LIFE THAT WAY... Seems like a very simplistic way of thinking, but I have personal opinions on EVERYTHING, but I don't force others to live their lives according to my moral fiber... i don't judge people for living their lives the way that makes them happy... And i believe that IGNORANCE is the basis for INTOLERANCE... people are famous for HATING things that they don't understand... again, if it MORALLY offends you, don't read stories on things that you don't agree with, don't watch shows that portray choices that you don't agree with... The Brown family seems close knit, almost like extended family living under one roof... the kids work together and get along much better than a lot of «mainstream» households i see...

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.

Here the Supreme Court began to set in legal concrete the notion that sexual morals and patterns of family life are matters of private choice or taste, not matters of public concern in which the state has a legitimate interest.

Members of traditional religions became moral outlaws in the United States once equal rights for sexual preference and gender choice were enshrined in regulation and law.

We see parental school choice (even vouchers) emerging as real possibilities as Americans see a moral vacuum in public education.

The very notion that a moral vision should be embodied in community life and relational obligations, rather than in the choices of any given individual, is a direct challenge to the ethic of expressive individualism that animates our popular culture.

Just as earlier the official Church could not and would not give any authoritative answer to someone about their choice of a profession, even though it could be a moral question of importance for salvation, so today and tomorrow the Church in many questions, even those of public interest and far - reaching importance, will not, even ratione peccati, be able to give a specific answer officially and directly.

In last fall's presidential election pro-life voters were faced with a difficult moral choice emblematic of the politics of abortion in general: Does moral principle demand a vote for a marginally pro-life candidate with a chance of winning, or does it demand a vote for a completely pro-life..In last fall's presidential election pro-life voters were faced with a difficult moral choice emblematic of the politics of abortion in general: Does moral principle demand a vote for a marginally pro-life candidate with a chance of winning, or does it demand a vote for a completely pro-life..in general: Does moral principle demand a vote for a marginally pro-life candidate with a chance of winning, or does it demand a vote for a completely pro-life....

«One of God's great delights in beholding his universe is, as we may well suppose, to witness the unknown choices and moral developments of free agents, to witness their displays of faith and heroism and spiritual valor, and to watch the unfoldings of vast and various enterprises» (FG 245).

Much of these early meetings were taken up with the men testing one another — and finding themselves wanting — by virtually impossible moral choices: «If you had to kill someone again in order to survive, would you do it?

In the same way, if we are, as the abortion - choice movement must assume, bearers of moral rights by nature (including the «right to choose»), then there can be no right to abortion, for the one who has the «right to choose» is identical to her prenatal self.

When those fundamental values are translated into concrete moral choice, the resulting norm may in fact differ from one historical situation to another — from the premonarchic agricultural setting in Israel to the affluence of the eighth century to the period of Hellenistic or Roman domination to today's secularized society.

The difference is that detachment leaves us in control of our passions rather than being controlled by them, frees us to make loving moral choices without becoming cold and distant in our relationships.

The irony of his choice consists in his dedication to high ideals, subscription to which resulted in a practical abdication of his position that slavery was a moral and political evil and that secession was no constructive solution to the nation's ills.

The primary reason for this is that it is often women who find themselves in the midst of almost daily ethical and moral choices that they are called to make in their own lives but also in the life of their families or communities.

Before I can even grasp such a rule, I need the insight that my choice to seek will issue in moral specifics just like this interesting rule about theft.

It lies in its moral neutrality, its indifference to the notion of moral choices.

Such an affirmation, of course gives to the Church the responsibility to engage in the moral formation of its community — it is to «help shape both character and particular moral choices and action people take, singly and together.

First, with so much data to consider and so many goods to be balanced, those who stand outside the decision are in no position to pronounce on the individual moral culpability of parents who make these choices.

I am referring to the levels of understanding in which we actually live our lives, our relationships, our aspirations, our hang - ups, our personal choices and our moral dilemmas.

Is there no room in your idealism for personal moral choices, or must you legislate them all for us?

If I am right that the liberal project is ultimately self - contradictory, culminating in the twin depletions of moral and material reservoirs upon which it has relied even without replenishing them, then we face a choice.

Moral approval of results, an approval that will never be unanimous and will frequently be a minority view, is not of itself sufficient to justify judges in overriding the moral choices of elected legislatures.

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Actually, I can easily think of a case in which the moral choice is to choose the life of the beast over the man.

Her best - selling 1964 book, A Choice, Not an Echo, pushing the presidential candidacy of Barry Goldwater, resulted in the debacle of Goldwater's landslide loss, but the long - term result was the mobilization of large numbers of people, mostly in the Midwest and South and many of them women, who were appalled at the moral havoc that the 1960s had wrought and also, as time passed, at what they perceived as America's growing defense weakness under Jimmy Carter.

To be a sinner in the eyes of men, and presumably also in God's eyes, requires enough maturity, knowledge, and freedom to enable one to make moral choices.

In spite of the heroic renunciation of the religious orders they live in the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situationIn spite of the heroic renunciation of the religious orders they live in the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situationin the world, depend upon it, and become entangled with its economic and political injustices.13 What actually takes place in the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situationin the Catholic attempt to meet the relativities of moral choices is a continuous compromise with principles to fit situations.

There is, I suggest, a Christian answer to the moral problem, not in the form of a solution to every particular moral choice, but in the form of a deeper understanding of the moral life itself.

@ Nii — your prior comments certainly led me to believe that you believe that being g - ay, or acting in accordance with that se - xual orientation, somehow involves moral choice — a belief held by — in my experience — a large percentage of christian fundamentalists.

And some gay people feel that gay sex is wrong (and many have at some point in their lives), so they are clearly capable of taking a moral stand on the issue (without the physical components of their brains being any different than someone who makes a different choice).

And now that so many deeds that once were thought to place a soul in the balance have become matters of moral indifference, most of the choices we make are by definition unimportant, and the heroism or antiheroism of moral choice is all but impossible.

The big issue as I see it, the one I identified in my first comment, is the pair of notions that (1) we can choose to believe or choose to disbelieve in certain religious ideas and that (2) this choice is a moral triumph or a moral failure that is rewarded with heaven or punished with hell depending on how we choose.