Sentences with phrase «moral judgment in»

The researchers, who released their findings on the study on moral judgment in a recent issue of Cognition, created an implicit task that measures moral judgment without self - report, called the moral categorization task.

I did some research comparing moral judgment in India and the USA.

Because moral judgment in this case requires much more historical inquiry, one can hardly be conclusive about either judgment.

Famous people evoke all sorts of odd and perhaps extreme moral judgments in us.

Apart from this juridical judgment, there are no moral judgments in the text.

And, Typists no longer shifted their moral judgments in the self - interested direction.

Reduced amygdala - orbitofrontal connectivity during moral judgments in youths with disruptive behavior disorders and psychopathic traits

Not exact matches

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.

History provides the moral judgment, and we do not have to be theologians engaged in scriptural debates to point people to the judgment rendered by history... Elaine

I would rather cultivate a strong intuitive sence of judgment and understand the root of morals from within that to live by a very limited and conflicted set of rules such as in the KUran or Bible and never cultivate a good sense of judjment or a moral sense.

That biblical vision helped form the bedrock convictions of the American idea: that government stood under the judgment of divine and natural law; that government was limited in its reach into human affairs, especially the realm of conscience; that national greatness was measured by fidelity to the moral truths taught by revelation and inscribed in the world by a demanding yet merciful God; that only a virtuous people could be truly free.

Atheist morality is without any objective basis and, if followed with integrity, doesn't allow them to act against others who act contrary to their moral system (as they insist that each subjective moral judgment is equal in value, all being based purely on individual feelings).

The AAC monograph, for instance, identifies nine «methods and processes, modes of access to understanding and judgment» (ICC 15) that it thinks are essential to know: logical analysis, verbal literacy, numerical understanding, historical awareness, scientific method, informed and responsible moral choice, art appreciation and experience, international and multicultural experiences, and study of one field in depth.

«From this history of the Bible in early American history,» Noll writes in his concluding chapter, «the moral judgment that makes the most sense to me rests on a difference between Scripture for oneself and Scripture for others.»

Throughout the book, they repeatedly state that economists are not in the business of making moral judgments but of coldly assessing data and analyzing cause and effect.

The major flaw in your question is that you made the judgment that God is immoral based on your own morals.

The end of the world was at hand, and in view of this ultimate and swiftly approaching judgment day, personal readiness to meet it was the main desideratum, and personal morals fit to meet it were described in terms of the highest idealism.

Its greatness is reflected in its rich and full realization of the complicated nature of human behavior and of the difficulty of moral judgment for living mortals.

The Christian life is not about tolerance... but truth... The Bible is quite specific about what sin is... we must love the sinner but not tolerate the sin... being a Christian requires us to know and speak the truth in love... tolerance means accepting everything without judgment... we can not do that in this society in the midst of moral decay.

His argument, part of which appeared in these pages («Leading Children Beyond Good and Evil,» May 2000), is that moral education as presently conceived almost inevitably ends up by thinning out moral content, removing the sharp edges of judgment, avoiding normative traditions of moral experience, and thus stifling the factors most crucial to the formation of character.

The ethics committee at the Hurley Medical Center in Flint, Michigan weighed in on August 9, 1993, opining that to honor the parents» desire to continue Baby Terry's treatment «would be contrary to medical judgment and to moral and ethical beliefs of physicians caring for the patient» (my emphasis).

Then, Jesus is in no sense making a moral valuation or announcing a divine intervention or a coming judgment; he simply describes the reality of what is happening.

It is important as far as possible to remove temptation by changes in the situation that surrounds us, to develop strength of will and clearness of moral judgment through any help other people can give us, to utilize whatever inner resources we have for doing right.

Rahner looks at various aspects of freedom: historical, paradoxical, the role of grace, self - realization, capacity for love, moral judgment and freedom in relation to Christ.

Similarly, while there may be some value in the refusal to take a moral stance on homosexuality — in order to focus squarely on the nature of marriage rather than on same - sex relationships — I am less than persuaded by the authors» moral judgment that people's sexual relationships are a private issue.

But even without such a heretical solution she will realize that in view of the complicated conditions of our time in the moral sphere, too, many cases can no longer be decided directly by the official judgment of the Church, but must be left to the individual conscience guided by the great norms of the gospel which she announces.

For in such a case, too, the moral judgment (that is the capacity of subjective realization) may remain below objective demand even despite normal intelligence and freedom, and though the objective demand has been understood and the fundamental authority of the Church is not disputed.

Edmund Pellegrino explains clearly and simply the sacrilege involved in such an approach: «In ethics generally and medical ethics in particular, autonomy, freedom, and the supremacy of private judgment have become moral absolutein such an approach: «In ethics generally and medical ethics in particular, autonomy, freedom, and the supremacy of private judgment have become moral absoluteIn ethics generally and medical ethics in particular, autonomy, freedom, and the supremacy of private judgment have become moral absolutein particular, autonomy, freedom, and the supremacy of private judgment have become moral absolutes.

He begins by presenting a novel, brief history of arguments in analytic philosophy between moral realism (the view that moral properties are objectively real) and moral expressivism (the view that moral judgments are subjective expressions).

A fortiori the church's moral and ethical judgments are always in via and share the messy, unfinished and perfectible character of the church itself

It is here assumed that judgments of worth in the esthetic, moral, and religious fields require a similar presupposition of the givenness of an order of value which is to be discovered and universally recognized and honored.

Troeltsch, by way of contrast, was well versed in the social science of his time, and sought to make careful use of it in his theological, political and moral judgments.

And conversely, I believe morals can not be absolute in that they are a value judgment about certain behavior because I believe value judgments about certain behavior can not be moral absolutes.

Yet to begin ethical reflection at this point invariably seems to result in arbitrarily separating the moral judgment of an action from the kind of person who performs it.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

Because we can not directly observe the behavior of biblical people or interview them about their moral values and principles, it is all the more important to study the biblical forms of moral discourse — the many ways in which these values and judgments are expressed.

This hubris is in contradistinction to the clear teaching of the Catechism of the Catholic Church» for the Catechism, while assuming a serious dialogue among government officials, just war analysts, and the public, nonetheless teaches (at § 2309) that «the evaluation of these [just war] conditions for moral legitimacy belongs to the prudential judgment of those who have responsibility for the common good.»

Then there came the Clinton years, the years when America took something of a holiday from history» and from serious thought about the relation between ideals and realities, moral norms and prudential judgments, in formulating and executing foreign policy.

President Carter's announcement at Notre Dame in 1977 that Americans had gotten over their «inordinate fear of communism»» together with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's statement that Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shared «similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues»» demonstrated that the degradation of moral judgment into moral posturing could coexist with breathtaking strategic myopia (and indeed moral blindness) in minds for which the evocation of the specter of Vietnam marked an end to moral reasoning, or indeed any other form of reasoning.

(The unanimous moral judgment of a body of Christian theologians on most of these matters is stated in the report on «Atomic Warfare and the Christian Faith» issued by the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America.)

But, fortunately, in the United States we almost always side with the moral judgment of the parents if the parents wish to seek further treatment.

Though our moral philosophers have differed in many details, especially in regard to the sources of moral judgment, they have agreed amazingly in regard to what men ought to do.

There is the tendency of our religiousness toward «moralism» in the bad sense, that is, toward a rigid and self - righteous judgment according to a moral standard which we assume puts us in a good light and others in a bad.

Where the Council was not teaching on matters of faith and morals, such as where it was describing contemporary conditions or offering recommendations for renewal, its statements are to be received with respect and gratitude but are not necessarily flawless in either their factual accuracy or their prudential judgment.

Whereas the principle set forth in Deuteronomy may provide some means of measuring the accuracy of the predictions of an astrologer like Jeane Dixon or the lucrative prognostications of a dispensationalist like Hal Lindsey, it is less well suited to discerning the reliability of a call to moral judgment and decisive action.

If my account is fairly accurate, then I think my judgments about how we should act are also well - grounded in basic Christian moral teaching.

My argument against ENDA is not based in a moral judgment about homosexual acts, but in the fact that our times are not those times.

More recently, in 1996 when this journal pointedly addressed judicial usurpation in a way that raised the question of the legitimacy of the political order as it presently functions, Commentary reacted with alarm to the suggestion that all polities and parties are subject to transcendent moral judgment.