Sentences with phrase «moral judgment of»

«I think equality is an overarching issue for all this, but it still comes down to just a basic moral judgment of what is right and wrong.

How inserting the moral judgment of what does and does not constitute a fair defense to a claim contradicts today's rule to zealously advocate for one's client on all available defenses.

Under professional duty journalists pass moral judgment of the phenomena involved in the public interest on behalf of society.

Even away from the city, they have to deal with not only the men in their lives, but also the moral judgment of their day.

They also encourage clients to drop the moral judgment of food and think of all food as neutral.

These include obsessive focus on food choice, planning, purchase, preparation, and consumption; food regarded primarily as source of health rather than pleasure; distress or disgust when in proximity to prohibited foods; exaggerated faith that inclusion or elimination of particular kinds of food can prevent or cure disease or affect daily well - being; periodic shifts in dietary beliefs while other processes persist unchanged; moral judgment of others based on dietary choices; body image distortion around sense of physical «impurity» rather than weight; persistent belief that dietary practices are health - promoting despite evidence of malnutrition.

I'm not here to sit in moral judgment of another human being.

And while two years ago Heyman wrote, «I'm not here to sit in moral judgment of another human being,» now he writes, «I didn't want to reward the cheats.»

Putting the moral judgment of «Suicide is the wrong choice» doesn't take a step toward understanding others.

Moral maturity, at the human level, arises when one can emotionally sympathize, perhaps even suffer, with another and still make an independent moral judgment of him.

No doctrinal statement or moral judgment of any kind is privileged in this respect.

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.

(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.)

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.

Such an admission makes clear that more is at stake on this issue than a new moral judgment of homosexuality.

The political philosophers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson reject not only Tutu's invocation of religion and charged that, by seeking to transform the attitudes, emotions, and moral judgments of citizens, he improperly imports soulcraft into statecraft and transgresses the autonomy of citizens — contemporary liberalism's most sacrosanct value.

A fascinating new study examines how people overestimate the risks to children based on their moral judgments of a parent's behavior.

He recognizes that the courts might be pressed again to defer to military decision - making («I would not lead people to rely on this Court for a review that seems to me wholly delusive») and proposes that the chief constraint against this unconstitutional action is the executive's «responsibility to the political judgments of their contemporaries and to the moral judgments of history.»

Increased psychopathic traits mediate the relationship between impaired moral judgments of causing fear and increases in proactive aggression.

Not exact matches

Amazon's huge scale should make us wary of allowing it to make moral judgments on our behalf.

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

Yet we are still human beings, and one of the things that separates us from other animals is that we make moral judgments.

If we withhold those judgments, we fail to engage with Muslims as men and women capable of moral agency.

With the victims of lung cancer we have the good sense to respond at the point of human suffering rather than the point of moral judgment.

Second, by passing moral judgment so ostentatiously, the blogger is putting himself above the man he is condemning, and I think you shouldn't pass judgment on (say) Kingsley Amis's curmudgeonly prejudices unless you can plausibly claim to have a tenth of his literary talent.

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.

Yet we do not go to cancer wards preaching to the victims of lung cancer about their sinful lifestyles... Could it be that the weight of our moral judgments is clouded by the fact that a lot of conservatives smoke (smoking can even cause harm to nonsmokers who are unwilling breathers of the cancer - causing substance)?

There can be no doubt that Alexander Solzhenitsyn is one of the great moral figures on the world stage, and the present book neither adds to nor detracts from that judgment.

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.

One is considered guilty of rash judgment if one «even tacitly, assumes as true, without sufficient foundation, the moral fault of a neighbor.»

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.

Wildmon and others are simply using the mechanisms of the market place to express their consumer preferences, which happen also to be their moral judgments.

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.»

Such sweeping moral judgments and political exploitation of anachronistic stereotypes, however, have disappeared from serious scholarship.

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.

Myers knows there is a close connection between aesthetic and moral judgments, and he has a lot of both.

$ 19.95 Arthur Cohen has characterized it as «beyond the deliberations of reason, beyond the discernments of moral judgments, beyond meaning itself,» and....

Not all Wesleyans would agree on whether abortion is ever the most moral choice, and if not whether it should be outlawed or left to the judgment of those most intimately involved.

To suggest otherwise is to make something of a moral and spiritual judgment.

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.

The ideological boxes labeled liberal, conservative, neoconservative, etc. undergo a salutary rearranging by this company of diverse thinkers united by a devotion to freedom, rights, responsibility, virtue, and a market economy within the framework of moral judgment.

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).

I must emphasize that, from two points of view, the order of violence can not be brought under moral judgment.

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.

My ultimate standard of moral judgment is found when I face the questions: Does this act bring life or does it bring death to the persons involved?