Sentences with phrase «moral imagination of»

Martin Luther King, Jr. was formed out of this tradition, and he used it to create a preaching style that stirred the moral imagination of both black and white audiences and was a significant element in validating his leadership of the civil rights movement.

The entertainment industry mediates much of what is taken for reality and grips the moral imagination of the masses.

Not exact matches

«The wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all Einstein's moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish.»

The stories of players in these accounts challenge our moral imagination by forcing us to recognize that the uniformed men on the field are not just Football Players, but Persons - brothers, fathers, husbands, and sons like me.

In short, unless the Court is prepared to think about this issue with greater care than was evinced by the Ninth and Second Circuits» and there is little in its opinions of late to suggest that it has the moral imagination to do so» the question will be not how far we slide down the slippery slope of legally sanctioned killing, but how fast.

What he wishes to emphasize, however, is that the renovation of our moral reasoning will require the renewal of our metaphysical imaginations.

Resistance also requires a constant effort to withstand the doublespeak of the Re-education Center, a nightmare Sunday school whose lessons she must unlearn (such as the wonderful revisionary slogan said to be in Acts: «From each according to her ability; to each according to his needs» [p. 117]-RRB- At lunch they hear new Beatitudes she knows are «wrong, and they left things out, too, but there was no way of checking» (p. 89) except through memory and moral imagination.

Far from relegating war to the twilight of our moral and political imagination (where war would necessarily assume a logic of its own) just war theory seeks to domesticate war by relating it to politics.»

What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

These «truisms» should form a kind of perimeter for the moral imagination, even if there will be exceptional cases based on social and historical circumstances.

But if wealth can be created and, once created, put to the service of a moral imagination, are we» camels, the bunch of us» not called to be stewards of wealth rather than despisers of it?

This position signifies a failure of theological and moral imagination, and raises the question of why the church reacts automatically in public debates instead of helping to advance the discussion.

Only in so engaging the past can we expand our moral imaginations and escape the confines of our limited social and moral experience.

To ask probing questions about the current trajectory of reproductive biotechnology would have given us a chance to reflect with humility on the ways that our moral imaginations have been shaped by new «givens.»

For example, whereas Gregory suggests that medieval Christians fled towns for the forests because of the moral effects of money, Le Goff's work shows how the forests occupied the medieval imagination as a place of adventure and trial.

Not only is IVF the most obvious source of «fresh» and cryopreserved embryos, but the growing acceptance of embryo creation and disposal through IVF has shaped our moral imagination, rendering us less and less capable of seeing any relevant moral claims attending the early embryo as incipient human life.

I can only imagine that Smith himself, an advocate of putting the «moral imagination» to good use, would find this amusing.

They fire the ethical imagination not just of the resisters, but of all those who try to make moral sense of their lives.

Downing also calls attention to the images that had been incubating for years in Lewis's fertile imagination and that suddenly came to life in the Narnia stories, and Jacobs suggests that we should hardly be surprised when a writer with a long record of concern for moral education turns to writing stories for children.

This is why the Olympic Games retain such a powerful hold on our moral imagination: We get to see what human nature is capable of in its nobler moments.

This book looks gaunt by the standards of today's obese single - volume biographies, but Prior neatly packages a story of how one woman sought to expand «the moral imagination through her words.»

His was an intensely meditative, introspective, introverted, even retrospective character and imagination, but it was also social and moral in a way radically distinct from the temper both of his liberal age and of his liberated contemporaries Emerson, Thoreau, Whitman, Alcott, Ripley, Margaret Fuller, and Theodore Parker.

In principle, physical education provides the best opportunity for the harmonious development of the entire person, through contests of skill in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activity.

Hence his long progress from worthless rogue to champion of the passions to psychological cliché to obsolescence perfectly symbolizes the transition from the premodern to the postmodern cultural imagination, moral and aesthetic: from faith to disenchantment to resigned equanimity.

This is why the «embellishments» of James Frey and Greg Mortenson represent not merely moral failures, but failures of imagination.

His discussion of usury shows imagination and his moral condemnation of bank bailouts makes sense.

is that these outward signs are indicative of a lack of faith in the Spirit (see Paul's letter to the Galatians), the Spirit that is informing the believer's moral intuitions and moral imagination.

In our effort thus far to describe and illustrate the role of the imagination in preaching, we have considered two aspects of its power: the investiture of the Christian moral vision with such sensibility as sometimes enables it to enclose within the meaning of the Word of God the subtler perditions that stalk men's lives; and the power to behold, and in part reenact, the architectonic structure of grace that is the subliterary matrix out of which the witness emerges.

It is also a reason that Christians can't trust their moral intuitions and moral imaginations, even though they are (allegedly) informed by the Spirit, because they — at the end of the day — believe the same thing and agree with you that you can't really tell the difference and if you were in Phelps» shoes that you would feel the Spirit told you to do what he's doing.

And if the imagination of the preacher does not pierce through the chinks of formal concepts and inwardly recreate what hides there, the moral heart of the matter will remain inert.

In spite of the fact that everyone now agrees that this was from the imagination of Joss Whedon, we all still view as heroic the person who sacrifices their own life for the sake of others, and this heroism is understood in the moral sense.

Perhaps, but doubts as to the «mere subjectivity» of practicing morality based upon your moral intuitions and your moral imagination is precisely a lack of trust (aka faith) in the Spirit.

That imagination — fired, at least during the great middle years, by intense moral and religious perception — made Greene's fiction the best - realized portrayal in its time of the drama of the human soul.

But, we also see in the parable of the Good Samaritan that the lack of moral imagination is a problem inherent to the human condition and not isolated to any of the Nordic states.

Science itself is incapable of making moral judgments and it is not really too wild a step of the imagination to think of a situation where scientific knowledge is valued more highly than human lives.

We have learned so much about the intelligence, cognitive and social, of so many animals — humpback whales, orcas, bottlenose dolphins, elephants, gray parrots, dogs, and so on — all of it quite fascinating, thought - provoking, and in many cases delightful, and it seems a cruel impoverishment of our speculative and moral imaginations to dismiss it all as a process of biomechanical stimulus and response, only accidentally resembling the workings of human consciousness.

As the midterm elections approach, it's worth remembering that the future of America will turn on culture, not politics: the poetry of our moral and social imaginations, not punditry.

In so doing they also establish the horizons of the moral imagination — the expanse of the good that can be envisioned.

As Christians we have a binding obligation to make fullest use of our moral insights and creative imaginations to work for what is of most benefit to people.

... that no matter how wide the perspectives which the human mind may reach, how broad the loyalties which the human imagination may conceive, how universal the community which human statecraft may organize or how pure the aspirations of the saintliest idealist may be, there is no level of human moral or social achievement in which there is not some corruption of inordinate self - love.

It is noteworthy that Jesus accused his contemporaries precisely of such a failure in the realm of the imagination, and linked it to a moral failure, for the moral and the aesthetic are deeply intertwined (Balthasar again).

You moral highgound exists only in your imagination — exactly like the moral highground of Muslims, Hindus, and (insert cult).

We are the species uniquely capable of imagination, rationality and moral choice — and that is precisely why we are under an obligation to recognize and respect the rights of animals.»

If the referendum educates the public in the power of their voice, and if it educates masses and elites to expand their moral imagination enough to recognize the complaints of the other side, this experiment, although probably not the best outcome, has the epistemic value desired by proponents of deliberation, and its long - term effect may be more electoral stability and a renewed aversion to change for the sake of change.

Your moral imagination has enriched the mental culture of Louisiana!

Though the chef as star is part of the culture now, it took Shep's imagination, and his moral outrage at how the chefs were being treated, to monetize the culinary arts into the multi-billion dollar industry it is today.

It's a fable about the complexity of seeing others clearly, but one that relies more on imagination and surprising details than workaday moral revolt.

-- the courtroom profession that instantly defines the literal and moral limits of Hanna Schmitz's (Kate Winslet) imagination, and perhaps a nation's, in «The Reader»...

In contrast, many class sessions that ostensibly address managing for results focus on the more philosophical aspects of leadership, such as the one whose title asked, «How do we engage the moral and aesthetic imagination in the educational change process?»

The imparting of explicit moral instruction gave way to the development of creativity and imagination.