Sentences with phrase «moral inquiry»

Admittedly, the bonding and the information provided by gossip may be at the low end of the ladder of moral inquiry.

But whenever the film moves away from genre into serious moral inquiry, the weight of its ambition feels oppressive.

d. Corporate moral inquiry.

• The polemicism of MacIntyre's work, combined with its argument about the will to power behind modern moral inquiry, leads us to picture all modern arguments as inherently manipulative.

Which in turn means that the sustaining and strengthening of those communities — or, in MacIntyre's terms, those «traditions of moral inquiry» — must be a major task for anyone who accepts these arguments.

In the present section, several more specific ways are presented by which the effort to uncover the ethos of a congregation is pressed: (a) listening for narrative elements, (b) participant observation, (c) guided interviews for value patterns, and (d) corporate moral inquiry.

,» moral inquiry ought to ask: «How do we shape our lives of sexual love in ways that fulfill our dignity?»

Moreover, what one person affirms on the basis of revelation, another person may accept on the basis of reason or of personal intuition; such an exchange is particularly easy to imagine in the area of moral inquiry.

I could not have had a better guide, even with regard to the moral inquiries which I wished to make.

As a film and as a moral inquiry, Lanzmann's immense new work nullifies all urges to generalization.

The result is not a moral inquiry into human action but rather a compelling meditation on the nature of being itself.

Speaking as a believer who has often pondered that and other dispiriting questions about why evangelical Christianity has been so readily co-opted by conservative politics, I'll confess that the heaviness of Schrader's moral inquiry and the earnestness of his provocations were right up my alley.

Because the individualized assessment of the appropriateness of the death penalty is a moral inquiry into the culpability of the defendant, and not an emotional response to the mitigating evidence, I agree with the Court that an instruction informing the jury that they «must not be swayed by mere sentiment, conjecture, sympathy, passion, prejudice, public opinion or public feeling» does not by itself violate the Eighth and Fourteenth Amendments to the United States Constitution.