Sentences with phrase «moral exhortation»

Reviewing Whiteheads book in the New Republic (April 14), Margaret Talbot retorts that such moral exhortations for commitment will simply fall flat since they fly in the face of the American ideal of marriage as an enduringly affectional relationship.

Michael J. Perry, a leading legal scholar, argues that judicial review should serve the role of «prophecy,» calling us to a deeper understanding of ourselves through moral exhortation by the Supreme Court.

Seneca and Pliny wrote with the purposes of moral exhortation and instruction in view.

He hears in church a great many platitudes and familiar moral exhortations which do not move him much, with now and then a sermon which gives great comfort and support to the inner life.

Eschewing the story's details, they invariably talk about «passing by on the other side», a reference for those with ears to hear, a decontextualized general moral exhortation for those without.

It means reformers need to sweat things like perverse incentives and whether a policy is likely to actually, you know, work as intended, even when they'd rather focus on moral exhortation or larger causes.

Drawing on the breath - taking enormity and humbling force of the ocean, Pettibon has been extracting moral exhortations and subtle aphorisms that apply to people on either side of power and wealth.

The logical disconnection between Dawkins» scientific (or pseudoscientific) explanation of human nature and his moral exhortation may be used to illustrate the starting point for the new natural law philosophy of Germain Grisez, John Finnis, and several others (hereafter collectively designated Grisez - Finnis), which Robert P. George defends in the essays collected in the book under review.

John Meier seems closer to the intent of the Gospel author when he writes (p. 57), «The stress on the heavenly Father puts the reward idea - which is indeed part of Jesus» moral exhortation - into the context of a gift a Father gives his son, and not a strict wage an employer is bound to give his employee.»

But what the minister preaches is not an objective fact, a moral exhortation or an intellectual doctrine.

«Care flows naturally if the «self» is widened and deepened So that protection of free Nature is felt and conceived as protection Of ourselves... Just as we need no morals to make us breath... If your «self» in the widest sense embraces another being, You need no moral exhortation to show care......