Sentences with phrase «moral commitment»

Such situations do arise, of course, but manifestations of moral commitment more often occur as institutional conflicts and conflict resolution.

On the other hand, the educational system has not provided a vision that can inspire the younger generation to a common moral commitment.

My argument was that a failure to take these choices seriously will lead — and has already led — otherwise faithful people into moral commitments and alliances that are simply wrong.

This is a real moral commitment, not a pose to cover up racist bigotry.

Even if that role is not as significant as it once was, many Americans continue to want their society and their politics infused with moral commitment.

Noting that we live through institutions, they suggest that the institutions through which we currently live are antithetical to our deepest moral commitments.

Add Ethically - Based, Coming - of - Age Ritual With fewer Americans actively religious, fewer youth are participating in meaningful traditions that can build moral commitment and awareness.

c) Is the system compatible with the other elements of Christian moral commitment which it does not expressly include?

Suppose there emerged from left or right an issue of moral commitment over which the diverse movements in the church could agree that church - wide action must be taken but could not agree on what action to take.

We need many more opportunities and ways to make common cause with others in the faith.How else can we learn to deny own wills in following after Christ, or foster a resilient moral commitment on the part of our children?

These, then, are the several levels of unity that bind together the diverse topics of the chapters to follow: first, the curriculum of education; second, the major problems of contemporary civilization; third, the values by which education is seen as a moral enterprise; and fourth, a concept of value as devotion to worth rather than to satisfaction of desire, together with an ideal of democracy as the social expression of basic moral commitment.

Yet they do seem to differ from most nonfundamentalists in the level of energy they devote to their religious beliefs, their emphasis on differentiating believers and nonbelievers, and their desire for clarity, purity and absolute moral commitment.

Fundamental moral commitments may be at stake, creating conflict not just about one's individual life, but about the very nature of society.

India, Ulster, Bosnia and Sudan serve as potent reminders of just how volatile a mixture moral commitments and political differences can be.

Empathy on its own simply does not lead to consistent, enduring, or discriminating moral commitments.

They were, instead, making the complex decisions that any serious voter must, weighing their own moral commitments against a candidate's professed values, the policies they propose and how much is likely to be accomplished on a given issue given the political climate.

Unanchored as they are to anything concrete outside the self, the values and virtues encouraged by the leading strategies of moral education provide meager resources at best for sustaining and supporting our far - reaching moral commitments to benevolence and justice.

These are all recognizably neo-Roman moral commitments.

Watkins and others like her see themselves as having moral commitments outside of academia; they want to do work that brings political engagement and the advocacy of social justice to the cannon of anthropological literature.

According to Gandhi, who was also known as Mahatma, or «Great Soul,» this is the time when practitioners must make a «total moral commitment,» that is, commit themselves to «a living faith in a living God» and not to a «useful political strategy in a specific situation.»

He transformed the obligation for social relevance, a pervasive current between the wars, into an unrelenting moral commitment to a search for the «self.»

Such a transformation will require not just moral commitment and more mindful consumption, but most importantly major government financing of innovations in solar, wind, nuclear energy, and carbon capture and storage technologies.

Principal axis factoring and confirmatory factorial analysis supported Johnson et al. (1999) proposed tripartite structure: personal commitment referring to positive feelings towards the partner (three factors); moral commitment referring to a sense of moral obligation to maintain the relationship (three factors); structural commitment referring to the perception of external barriers preventing relationship termination (four factors).

It is also moral commitment.

(GO Oakland) is a network of families, educators, and community members with a deep moral commitment to the simple idea that every kid deserves a good chance, in school and in life.

It also shifted attention from the church's missions to its mission; it carried with it the implication that Christian giving is more an expression of moral commitment than of calculation.

Moreover, consistent with this moral commitment, I was anxious to meet personally the survivors of the White Rose, who were to be present in Munich for the conference.

As a result, parents would be able to pass on their moral commitments through schools of their choice.

There is a distinction between the life of desire, self - satisfaction narrowly conceived, and the life of worth, goodness and excellence, conceived in terms of a moral commitment.

Both the Constitution and the Civil War amendments are thoroughly secular documents, but they embody the moral commitment of a covenant people to order its life by the highest standards of which it is capable.

Our nation's strands of social cohesion and moral commitment have been picked apart over the past few decades.

The Protestant churches have institutionalized a split between church life and the daily life of church members for so long that members either do not want or do not expect their pastors to relate the Bible to their loves and moral commitments.

The belief that love and moral commitment are learned at home while persons learn about the Bible at church has had the devastating effect of separating life at work and life at home from the life of faith.

This commitment is «a moral commitment,» she says.

These moral matters simply can not be addressed without getting into the particularities of moral commitment and the traditions and communities that ground those commitments.

«Strong and timely ratification of the new treaty will communicate our nation's moral commitment to continue down a road that reduces the nuclear threat,» Bishop Howard J. Hubbard, chairman of the Conference of Catholic Bishops Committee on International Justice and Peace, said.

Again, I give them credit for distinguishing between the emotions of the moment and the moral commitments that begin from, but transcend, those emotions.

Our crisis reaches from our technical activity to our political policy to our moral commitments and dispositions of soul.

Paul Ryan is a longstanding advocate of decentralizing social welfare programs, but this does not mean he is deficient in either his moral commitment to the poor or his understanding of Catholic social doctrine.

Americans who came of age in the decade after the Second World War are deeply imbued with the values and moral commitments of the American Dream.

Before change in sexual behavior and family structure challenged the moral commitments of «the family pew,» anthropologist W. Lloyd Warner had observed that beliefs and practices in the church and in the family were so intertwined that, «Should the present form of the family disappear, the Christian church would necessarily undergo revolutionary changes.

But that's not the same as a moral commitment to loyalty.