Sentences with phrase «moral impositions»

«Taboo,» a provocative exhibition of contemporary Australian and international artists, whose works are presented alongside various archival ephemera ---- newspaper clippings, postcards, and photographs ---- attempts to lay bare the moral impositions wrought by collective institutional bodies upon individual ones.

Indeed, moral imposition and prescription are precisely the opposite of morally serious behavior; for while the arbitrary imposition of authority, whether mental or moral, can create conditioned reflexes, it is powerless to bring about responsible action.

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Most significantly, Duddington argues against the charge that permitting an increasing role for religion in the legal and political (i.e., public) spheres would necessitate the imposition of one system of belief upon another, by re-emphasising the argument that Christianity does not serve to generate a moral code, but rather provides a vehicle through which it may be discovered.

The Decalogue is not the imposition of the will of an arbitrary divinity; the Ten Commandments help the liberated from falling back into the bad moral habits of slaves, and thus help a free people remain faithful to the logic of their liberation.

Besides, if we aren't told what counts as imposition, then to say one must never «impose one's will on someone else» makes moral law unenforceable.

However, there should never be an imposition of «Christian morals» on those who are not of the Christian faith.

The committee opinion sought to «maximize accommodation of an individual's religious or moral beliefs while avoiding imposition of these beliefs on others or interfering with the safe, timely, and financially feasible access to reproductive health care that all women deserve.»

Advocating censorship as a solution ignores the complexity of associated issues of freedom of speech and questions of imposition of one particular set of moral values in a socially and morally pluralistic society.

An inflexible notion of moral truth subjects ordinary Christians to severe burdens, and this imposition «is unlawful and possibly a great injustice.»

The problems as to the legitimacy of moral education in the pubic schools disappear, however, if the proper content of moral education is recognized to be the values of justice which themselves prohibit the imposition of beliefs of one group upon another... [This] does not mean that the schools are not to be «value - oriented.»

The Council of Nicaea (canons 8, 9, and 10, and the synodal letter), dealing variously with the Novatianist and the Meletian clergy and with lapsi who should never have been ordained on moral grounds, left open the question as to what constituted valid ordination and what constituted the difference between election (ekloge), recognition or installation (katastasis), imposition of hand (cheirothesia), and ordination proper (cheirotonia).

It is not the imposition of moral value on others.

Rather in the name of freedom and liberty, it is for the advocacy and imposition upon individual choices and rights and «morals» under the guise of «societal fabric,» putting the whole before the individual, but NOT The whole that we HAVE so share (the — in case you forgot — environment) and each have some individual right to, that a true «liberty and limited» government, is created to do.

49 Here, the Commission's imposition of the fine was arguably not «punitive» in the narrow sense of the word; that is, it may not have been imposed as a punishment for Mr. Thow's moral failings, and it may not have been motivated by a desire for retribution or to denounce his conduct.