Sentences with phrase «moral conviction necessary»

... In particular, it can help lawyers to develop the moral sensitivity, moral judgment and moral conviction necessary to make a better and more ennobling job of fulfilling their professional role and responsibilities.

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Posner even indicates some sympathy for those who want to prohibit those other abortions: «I do not mean to criticize anyone who believes, whether because of religious conviction, nonsectarian moral conviction, or simply a prudential belief that upholding the sacredness of human life whatever the circumstances is necessary to prevent us from sliding into barbarism, that abortion is always wrong and perhaps particularly so in late pregnancy, since all methods of late - term abortion are gruesome....

It is clear that something more is needed, that moral convictions, while necessary to the good life, are not sufficient.

The fact of freedom makes the more necessary the sharing of life with that company of people whose faith and moral conviction are necessary to each individual's moral sanity.

It is both foundational to and prior to conscience, for conscience combines the advocacy of our visions and passionate convictions with the disinterested analysis necessary for moral decision - making, the latter resulting from education.

This means «equipping the saints» to be twenty - first - century apologists who can (pace Pope Francis) offer compassionate aid to the walking wounded of postmodern society, explain the truths about the human person that the Church believes are essential to a truly human political community, and, if necessary, hold fast to Gospel - based Christian moral convictions even if that means professional or economic distress.

The conviction that moral standards are not arbitrary, that they reflect basic human truths and therefore that they must be passed from generation to generation is a necessary prerequisite of all moral education.