Sentences with phrase «moral decisions on»

Cech's situation is different as it was a moral decision on Abramovic's part but I don't thnk he's leaving

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Taken to its logical extreme, his research seems to argue that boards should have only female directors, but he's careful to point out that not all women score highly on complex moral reason (sometimes known as «CMR») decision - making, and some men do.

The research also points out that Millennials rank their personal values and morals as having the greatest influence on the decisions they make at work.

What most people claim is a decision on morals is a decision based on how similar someone else is to them.

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.

As Compton carefully explains, the court's rulings on moral reform did not lead directly to the New Deal decisions that dealt the final blow to constitutional limitations on federal power.

On the other hand, religion has been the primary source for moral guidance for centuries, then with one fell swoop of a court decision, this moral guidance in schools was taken away, with nothing to replace it; we live everyday with that legacy — a vacuum of moral guidance.

The Archbishop of Baltimore did docu - ment that if a married couple had good reason to use birth control (ie on gets HI - V from tainted blood) and the discuss their si - tu - ation with their priest and pray to God for guidance and they come to the con - clu - sion the should use birth control the can rest a-s-su-re-d they are making a moral decision.

On atheism, who says another person's moral decisions are a mistake?

they do not make moral decisions, they act on instinct.

But adult humans must make moral decisions, they can not govern this world wisely based on the instincts pf territory protection and expansion, slaying the offspring of others to make sure ours thrive, fighting, freezing, fleeing, fretting, or withdrawing into a fantasy world where we alone make decisions.

On the contrary, making moral decisions is, or should be, part of the deepest fabric of our being.

It's what I use to help guide me through life, make moral decisions, how to think of others, my place in this world, meaning, purpose and so on.

As a distinguished champion of what the left euphemistically calls «reproductive rights,» Justice Ginsburg was never going to critique the decision on moral grounds; the problem for Ginsburg, rather, was tactical.

For as well as theoretical reflection on the moral significance of a decision, there are other ways and means by which a human being can either become clear about the rightness and conformity to God's will of a decision, or at least improve the conditions for its correct formation: the general cultivation of courage, unselfishness, self - denial, the practice of the art of making vital particular decisions which can not be deduced by purely theoretical consideration as this art is taught by the masters of the spiritual life.

Whereas ancient man felt himself to be at the mercy of capricious forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his life and destiny largely depend.

If I am morally required or permitted to act in a certain manner, and if that action has effects on you, then the moral validity of the prescription on which I act means that your acceptance of those effects is required by reason — and, in that sense, the prescription implies a common decision.

It is naturally less personal than those written to people he knew, and it is his greatest theological statement — an exposition of his faith, its foundations, its bearing on suffering, sin, and problems of moral decision.

If what is moral is what «we decide» and that decision is based alone on what was historically acceptable, then mixed race marriage is immoral.

Despite his depiction of God as creatively involved in the historical struggle, his limitation of freedom to strictly moral decisions, where each person was on trial to prove his worthiness, raises serious questions about the God - man relationship.

On this conclusion, the comprehensive purpose as a principle for moral decisions may be formulated: maximize creativity in the human future as such.

Even if it is misconceived, though, the question is still pressed upon us: Is it permissible in our political community for public decisions to be based on moral values informed by religion?

The revelers in Plato's Symposium insist on placing their drinking squarely in a moral framework; they regard drinking as a personal decision made with regard for physical, moral and spiritual welfare.

A striking example of the negative result of the absence of an open debate on the moral meaning of homosexuality is the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the rights of states to outlaw sodomy.

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On the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kinOn the theoretical side, it ranges from the speaking or writing of sentences of modest import up to the enunciation of important scientific or philosophical truths; on the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kinon the practical, it ranges from the involvement of rational speech with the ordinary tasks of daily life up to its involvement with moral decisions of the most momentous kind.

Because the standard model of morality focuses on the moment of decision, it sometimes makes the moral dimension of our lives sound far more exciting and dramatic than it really is.

If it came to light that decisions of the triage / lifeboat variety were being made in the distribution of our excess food resources, not for the sake of long - range survival and well - being of the greatest number based upon utilitarian calculation, but rather for the rawest, most crass and most selfish political reasons, would this not indeed have a devastating effect on the American moral consciousness?

Some how it's felt that values, morals, virtues are not there in a secular world only faceless solid lifeless laws of men rather than what has been relayed by Holy books that calls for good deeds and reject bad deeds and to build a faithful societies, communities, nations since communications among nations or even among the nations of mixed cultures and beliefs... Laws or God and universe are to be prepared by some thing that is equivalent to UN but built on nations beliefs to achieve the code of understanding among nations but as can see now it is build on groundless bases if not of words of God to faiths... in addition to those non spiritual secular beliefs to make decisions of faith but at the moment the secular world make and take the decisions while the beliefs and faiths has to pay for it when it becomes a war between all faiths or religions outside your world, it would become back into your inside among the mixed culture and beliefs of the nation or nations under one country flag...!

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.

«People may use religious agents as a moral compass, forming impressions and making decisions based on what they presume God as the ultimate moral authority would believe or want,» the team write.

«This is different to a bottom - up approach where it has to make moral decisions about how it acts, and you then give it feedback on whether that's right or wrong.

As to nuclear weapons, I think their use was immoral and that we ought not make moral decisions based on weighing the number of lives saved or (potentially) lost.

In the moral decisions of a lifetime that are involved in it, one of them may or may not overshadow all the rest to become the kind of dramatic reorientation that Paul had on the Damascus road.

those of us who are educated beyond religion don't particularly savor the idea of people who're ignorant and delusional making decisions for the country based on their idiotic theistic morals.

Complex as life is, to evade Christian decision on the basis of inadequate direction from Jesus is to evade moral responsibility on other grounds.

Noonan points out that German elites compliment themselves on the moral rectitude of Angela Merkel's decision to admit a million Muslim migrants.

And you know those old cartoons that would show a good angel and a little devil on the character's shoulders when having to make a moral decision?

«Our faith and moral principles call us to measure economic decisions on whether they enhance or undermine the lives of those most in need.

Hauerwas» pastor understood that when there is significant dissent on a theological or moral question before the church, the church must continue to study, discuss, and pray until the whole church can affirm a decision.

Humans are generally rational (for the most part), beings that live and make decisions based on a moral code.

Every moral decision has some impact on the whole and bears the weight of that responsibility.

Stated formally, we may put the question this way: On what grounds are we to base our judgments of value and thus our moral, social and political decision - making?

At the same time, if we look more closely, each view does seem to have a finger on something that is true about the foundations of moral discernment and decision - making.

Right, because Christians who owned slaves and did not permit women to read, write, or make decisions have the greatest moral authority on such matters.

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.

Even for the Catholic the road from the general principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibility.

If, however, the Catholic now sees that despite, and in addition to, his ethics based on essential natures, he must develop an individual ethics of concrete moral decision which goes beyond mere casuistry, and if the Protestant ethical theorist perhaps realizes that in the new and dangerous situation he must perhaps be less carefree in simply leaving the Christian to his «conscience», then perhaps the new situation will bring about a new climate in which, even theoretically, people will be compelled more readily to think towards one another rather than away from one another, and in which people will understand one another more easily and even gradually unite.

In conclusion, there is a saying of Jesus which perhaps can show how little it is possible to seek for an ethic of Jesus in the sense of an idealistic doctrine of duties and virtues, or in the sense of an ethic of goods or values; how, on the contrary, the responsibility for all concrete moral decisions is thrust upon man, and these decisions are bound up with the one Either - Or, obedience or disobedience.

This kid is fifteen, I don't understand how you can be angry with someone who is making a decision based on his morals.