Sentences with phrase «moral foundation»

And yet, American liberal democracy has nonetheless always made available the tools to nurture those essential moral foundations of freedom.

It proposes a more secure moral foundation for liberalism, community, and democracy, and it proposes better ways of understanding liberalism, community, and democracy.

In order for all things to have a good end result, they must have a good moral foundation.

There's no purpose to it and no purpose in having an objective moral foundation.

Modern liberalism assumes and requires a society with a certain moral foundation, but it does not always reinforce that foundation, and increasingly it undermines it.

Those of us who believe that our social and political order rests on moral foundations applaud William Bennett for his Index of Leading Cultural Indicators.

Not being a teacher, I had naively supposed that schools were dedicated to building character, establishing moral foundations, instilling basic values.

I completed my PGCE at Plymouth University; at a time of great change in the politics of education, the tutors there challenged us, engaged and inspired us, and really helped us develop solid moral foundations for our practise.

For some, this dark turn offers proof that the American project of virtuous democratic capitalism has always been inherently untenable: Ever since the nation's founding, if not since the dawn of the Enlightenment, the liberal society has been at war with its own moral foundations, they argue.

The founder, Adam Smith, had a rather cheerful view of human economic activity, especially in societies in which strong moral foundations guide public behavior and free, competitive markets reward with better profits and higher wages those producers and workers who make good decisions.

She must have realized that reason based on a set of theories, i.e, evolving and or presumed realities, was empty and unable to offer moral foundation for real life.

Like an ant who can apparently carry multiples of its own body weight, the principle of consent is now expected to be the sole provider of a sufficient moral foundation for society at large.

Most of the ten commandments are not current American laws, but they certainly form the underlying moral foundation of the nation.

In fact, the alarmingly fast decline of moral foundations among our young people has culminated in a one - word worldview: «whatever.»

Regardless, without some semblance of a God from where does one derive moral foundation?

Quite simply: strong visual cues, performances served with gusto and a solid moral foundation do not a perpetually enjoyable movie make.

Humane effective responses to global warming with an ethical and moral foundation require difficult equitable resolutions of conflicting national situations generated by different per - capita emissions (historical, current, and future), economic development, and energy requirements.

The 3 - to 4 - second - ers follow a strict moral foundation of leaving at least 3 to 4 seconds of distance between their car and the car in front of them.

We wanted to study the moral reasons for those judgments, and we used moral foundations theory (MFT).2 We've written about this topic before (see here and here), but to recap, MFT says that people have a lot of different moral concerns.

As an atheist I have been converting to santa clausism, because I believe in the spirit of giving, and santa claus obvious has a good moral foundation of giving back to society.

As celebrants of multiculturalism, the editors may protest that they can not limit themselves to biblical faith, since, after all, it has no higher claim on their attention than that it is the religious connection of more than 90 percent of the population and the religio - moral foundation of Western Civilization.

Jon's brand of socialism is based on moral foundations — don't forget he's a Catholic.

After World War II, secularity seized the cultural sway from Protestantism, and to some extent carried its revolution so far that it destroyed its own moral foundations.

There certainly is no objective moral foundation without God.

The Iron Giant is a gorgeous film with a strong moral foundation.

They blamed the media for its constant barrage of sexual messaging and accused our culture for eroding our moral foundation.

There's not much point to having a moral foundation based upon religion if it does not make you more moral in your actual life.

The MORAL FOUNDATIONS OF LAW SEMINAR is a intensive, week - long program for law school students interested in the interaction among moral thought, legal theory and moral legislation.

By contrast to Europe's denial of its religious and moral foundations, Asia's great religious traditions, especially the mystical component expressed in Buddhism, have been elevated as spiritual powers.

To complicate the picture, we have to acknowledge that the Catholic Church today represents the largest single religious community in the United States, while American Catholics have absorbed the free - church traditions on the relation between the Church and politics, believing that a Church that is separate from the state better guarantees the moral foundation as a whole.

The moral foundations of our culture, which organized religion has done so much to maintain, are often reasonably secure for one generation, even when actual sharing in the corporation is given up.

So unstinting has been the effort to portray as virtuous the ending of the lives of the weak that it brings to mind Pope Benedict's words to the College of Cardinals in 2012: «We see how evil wants to dominate the world,» he said, and how it uses cruelty and violence, but also how it «masks itself with good and, precisely in this way, destroys the moral foundations of society.»

Saying, «only theists have a moral foundation» or «the Irish drink a lot» is prejudice.

Stand firm, for it is you, and not your opponents, who are showing «active sympathy for the weak» (to borrow the Nietzschean phrase without adopting the Nietzschean critique); and you also, not your opponents, who are defending lawful law and the moral foundations of civilized society.

Moreover, if the church fails to find a «new balance» between its spiritual and political missions, the pope warned, its moral foundation will «fall like a house of cards.»

America lost their moral foundation when they decided to kill the Native Americans and steal their land.

It is important to list those rights that must be protected; it is more important to understand the moral foundations of rights as such.

Nothing is more clear, however, in the light of history, than this: new political, economic and ecclesiastical machinery does not alone solve problems; it creates problems, and, above all, it puts a strain on moral foundations, on spiritual resources, that must successfully be met or the best - laid plans come down in ruin.