Sentences with phrase «moral debate on these issues»

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The debate on the final statement concerning the war — which took nearly all the time allotted for discussion of public issues — saw the Assembly initially adopt a repudiation of the Christian moral tradition that justifies the use of force in «last resort» circumstances in favor of a pacifist approach.

Moreover, the period precipitated the deep polarization of the middle classes on social and moral issues that has defined subsequent religious and political debate.

We could call this problem the «legalization» of debate, meaning not whether something is legal, but instead the conversion of moral, social, religious, and other dimensions of an issue into legal, or legalistic, terms, or at least the neglect of them because of a focus on what the judges will say.

Instead of working to achieve consensus on contested theological and moral issues, legislatively driven agendas are designed to end debates by reducing the issue to two sides and then enacting one side into church policy and ecclesiastical law.

In September, Time magazine organized a debate between Collins and Dawkins which touched on all the crucial issues: the false idea that science and faith should be held as not overlapping; the place of Darwinian evolution in the plan of God; the fine - tuning of the physical constants of nature; the literal interpretation of Genesis; the place of miracles including the incarnation and the resurrection of Jesus; and the origin of the moral law within the human heart.

We criticize movies on A.I., like last year's release Ex Machina, we debate ethical and moral issues, we challenge them to design and program their own intelligent system.

Centered on moral dilemmas regarding racism and how to both study and teach sensitivity to the issue, the conversation — while lively and intellectually challenging — seemed, like many debates on morality, only to result in even more possible responses to some of the complexities Minow raised.

And the other great moral and political questions of the great debate on salt and iron — the need for profits, the rights and obligations of nobility, aid to the poor, the importance of a balanced budget, the appropriate tax burden, the risk of anarchy, and the dividing line between rule of law and tyranny — have all remained unresolved issues.

The heart of this novel also concerns a pressing moral issue, one I will not comment on nor state which side of the debate I would be on.

Rather than deal with the issue head on, the libtard's easy option is to apply a label, thereby securing an imagined moral superiority which obviates the need for further debate.

Although there is growing acceptance that the issues issue being debated in Copenhagen must be understood as raising profound moral and ethical issues, it is clear that some parties continue to base their decisions on national economic interest.

[66] Talk of «practical reconciliation» asserts moral authority to shut down debate about the importance of proceeding to address disadvantage on the basis of rights by presenting them as something that are merely desirable or aspirational, but not connected to the real issues at hand.