Sentences with phrase «moral equality»

«Nobody asks where we got our notion that people ought to have some kind of moral equality,» he observes.

It is true, as the Pope affirms, that democracy is uniquely valuable because it embodies more fully than any alternative system the principle of the fundamental moral equality of citizens.

For Rawls departures from equality require special justification, but the disvalue of such departures is not intrinsic, but derivative of the value of moral equality represented by the choice situation behind the veil of ignorance.

If it occurs to Molly that on Monday it was she who laid $ 100 on top of the cash machine in Wheeling and then drove 20 miles down the road before remembering what she'd done, her anger at Mort is likely to dissolve in a vision of moral equality.

The kind of moral equality that Jesus asks us to pray for in the Lord's Prayer can be seen in Applebaum's argument.

He draws on H. Richard Niebuhr and Gustavo Gutiérrez to show how gross socioeconomic inequalities undermine the moral equality of people whom Christians affirm are all created in the image of God.

A crisis that is bringing into question not only the principles of asylum and of free movement within the European Union but Europe's very idea of itself as a space of liberal values, freedom, moral equality and human rights.