Sentences with phrase «moral claim»

This is an ethical / moral claim as well as a metaphysical assertion.

This specific practice requires only that two or more individuals agree to suspend other purposes in order to assess the validity of contested moral claims.

I want the world to be a place where I can live in peace, and in order to make any such moral claim I must go first and give peace.

Is it really possible that only conscious, rational, wishful persons have the highest moral claims on us?

In personal life, choices of right and wrong come down to balancing the competing moral claims of self and family, personal security and professional interests, short - term and long - run good.

Nonetheless, within the diverse meanderings of this self «proclaimed skeptic there appears an intuition that moral claims without a foundation in God can not make that difficult philosophical movement from «is» to «ought.»

Mainline Protestants, among others, would make a similarly unequivocal moral claim about racism.

Posner suggests that this lack is unfortunate: those (like John Finnis) who «derive their moral codes from religious orthodoxy make a tactical mistake» when they make secular reason the only legitimate basis for moral claims.

Not only is IVF the most obvious source of «fresh» and cryopreserved embryos, but the growing acceptance of embryo creation and disposal through IVF has shaped our moral imagination, rendering us less and less capable of seeing any relevant moral claims attending the early embryo as incipient human life.

The Court of Appeal conceded that having worked on the # 2.3 m farm for nothing, seven days a week for 28 years, the litigant had a strong moral claim — but with no documentary proof of the deceased's alleged promise, the property went to closer blood relatives.

In America, that means respect for the novus ordo seclorum, carefully distinguishing its legitimate moral claims from the illegitimate philosophical claims of those who would insist that secularism can be its only sufficient foundation.

They want their audience to agree to the objective moral claim — often using scenarios like rape and Hitler to entice what, for most, would be common agreement.

And we believe moral claims, such as that we owe extraordinary allegiance to God.

His other challenge came out of my major moral claim, that any serious effort to reduce emissions by any significant amount, let alone the 60 - 80 % called for by the European Union and some of our presidential candidates, would destroy economies all over the world and condemn the poor to perpetual poverty - which is why China and India will have nothing to do with emissions caps.

They recognized, as United Methodists on either side of the abortion debate have recognized until recently, that the in vitro human embryo makes, at the very least, an iconic moral claim.

At this moment in the Western world, an increasingly aggressive secularism makes broader claims than ever before, at least in the United States — including moral claims that woo well - meaning, if ill - informed, converts to its side.

Niebuhr was trying to make Christian moral claims relevant to international politics, so in the book he turned specifically in his application to the problems the United States faced in the cold war.

The key question that remains is whether atheists, in a world without God, are entitled to special moral claims about humans?

Omar Barghouti, the founding member of the Palestinian Campaign for the Academic and Cultural Boycott of Israel, and voice of the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement against Israel says this about negotiating: «I am completely and categorically against binationalism because it assumes that there are two nations with equal moral claims to the land.»

Taken as a whole, the law passed in Germany makes a minimal moral claim.

A decade ago Kenneth Craycraft argued, in The American Myth of Religious Freedom, that the myth was that the government could neutrally adjudicate moral claims among religions.

Power is the necessary evil of civilization because things like tax codes and wealth distribution have no distinct claim to a self evident «rightness» like moral claims do «tho shall not kill».

Tomasi's second moral claim depends upon the long - term effect of capitalism.

It took years for workers to develop effective forms of organisation through trade unions and to name and diagnose the harms that underscored moral claims to limits on the working day, decent pay and conditions, and later to a social minimum from the surplus they produced.

It may indeed be a rope of fragile, withering flesh, but it is strong enough to hold God's moral claim on the universe.

Constitutions are not merely legal arrangements; they are moral claims about the purpose of a society's institutions and its way of life.

I do not expect to find my moral philosophy codified in the Constitution, and others may find the moral claim of fetal life outweighed by compelling interests of equality and individual autonomy.

The morals you claim to be biblical are merely the morals of the time, recorded in the bible.

It is simply un natural for human beings to think that morality is nothing but a charade, that all moral claims are nothing but relative human constructions.

Those calling us «apes» are making a moral claim.

Many faiths are thick; that is, having the faith means not only loving and trusting in God but also believing a complex and rich set of historical, theological, philosophical, and moral claims.

This formative principle presupposes that moral claims can be accepted or contested because they can be valid or invalid and, thereby, presupposes the possibility of valid substantive prescriptions.

Of course, I know that you won't because your real problem is not intellectual, but that you're hostile to the moral claims of the Bible, which say that you and I are ruined in sin without Christ and that we need to repent and turn to Him.

Grob, professor of history at Rutgers, comes up with no solution, except perhaps for recognizing that there is no definitive solution for the problems of a population that continues to have a moral claim upon the rest of society.

That creation declares God's glory and is an intrinsic good, and that only a depraved moral imagination allied to a petrified heart could fail to see the moral claim made on us by other creatures?

No one can possibly follow all its dictates, nor recite all its moral claims without some contradictions occurring.

But moral freedom is freedom to rebel against the moral claim, and freedom of the spirit is freedom to rebel against God.

No moral claim is safe from deconstruction.

And certainly the last thing that schools should do is to reinforce the cynicism of youth by taking an essentially debunking approach to the moral claims of the various religious traditions, as they too frequently do.

Nash promises to demonstrate that character education is a «deeply and seriously flawed» project, «unnecessarily apocalyptic... inherently authoritarian in its convictions... excessively nostalgic and premodern in its understanding of virtue, too closely aligned with a reactionary... politics, anti-intellectual in its curricular initiatives, hyperbolic in its moral claims, dangerously antidemocratic,» and more.

Or is it a moral claim?