Sentences with phrase «moral judgments about»

Moreover, psychopathy resulted in more lenient moral judgments about the acceptability of causing someone fear.

People's moral judgments about relationship behaviors depend greatly on their own personality profiles, especially their attachment styles.

Insurance companies don't make moral judgments about who is named as beneficiary.

«Don't make moral judgments about parties.»

But what we would like to draw attention to is the importance of a truly feminist and queer perspective when making these fundamental moral judgments about the sexuality of others.

It was found that people make strong moral judgments about a parent who leaves her child alone.

Try to avoid making moral judgments about the person; that will almost certainly escalate the problem.

Like Kubrick, Field doesn't make any moral judgments about his characters, and his film remains stubbornly enigmatic.

People with broad human sympathies and deep feelings are often reluctant to make moral judgments about others and often feel that morality is a cold and heartless business.

In the aftermath of the United States military response to the car - bombing of American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania last August, New York's John Cardinal O'Connor drew a distinction between ad hoc, after - the - fact moral judgments about such particular responses to terrorism and a....

On the other hand, the chief problem with the view of the new reformers is that it fails to recognize that a sexual self, liberated from undertakings that have a moral claim upon it prior to any of its particular intentions and choices, has no satisfactory way to make moral judgments about what it intends, chooses, promises, and then undertakes.

To give full voice to traditional moral judgments about sex, sexual identity, and relationships is insensitive, puritanical, or just plain bad manners.

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.

Jake — Why would that «twist» take away someone's ability to make a moral judgment about homosexuality?

In addition, by arguing that capture can not be pursued when there is «undue risk» to American personnel, the U.S. is making a moral judgment about whose lives should be prioritized.

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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)?

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.

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.

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.

The moral enterprise presupposes the potential universality of judgments about values that are individually objective.

First, it reflected a judgment about modern warfare as inherently grossly destructive, so much so that it could never be conducted morally or be an instrument of moral purpose.

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.

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.

The Constitution has nothing to say about abortion, leaving it, like most subjects, to the judgment and moral sense of the American people and their elected representatives.

As to your claim about the keys being used to determine moral right and wrong, I don't see that anywhere in Matthew 16 or Isaiah 22, and although the Jewish people may have understood this as referring to such judgments, they understood then (and even today) that moral judgments are made by God alone and through a proper understanding of what God has said in Scripture.

Hence we require a structure of moral and legal principles with the agencies of courts, legislatures, and political processes which establish laws in the light of the judgment of the people about their needs.

Nevertheless, both are devoted to the personal vocation of man, though under different titles... [Yet] at all times and in all places, the Church should have the true freedom to teach the faith, to proclaim its teaching about society, to carry out its task among men without hindrance, and to pass moral judgment even in matters relating to politics whenever the fundamental rights of man or the salvation of souls requires it» (Gaudium et Spes, 76).

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

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

If the norm of the new humanity in Jesus Christ obliges us to question the Apostle's opinions about the proper status of women and the institution of human slavery, so also that norm obliges us to scrutinize each of his moral judgments regarding its Christian faithfulness for our time — including his perception of homosexuality.

Hicks omits criteria for making normative judgments about what levels of inequality are just — normative criteria that Christian ethicists of an earlier generation called «middle axioms» between broad theological and moral principles and policy judgments.

Beyond economic calculations, there are also moral judgments to be made about how state action can promote or discourage a healthy civil society.

As such, it promotes intellectual development by helping children to understand, and reason about, how relationships work, and to develop moral judgment and empathy.

Just like cupcakes and second hand smoke, these are moral or physical RISKS about which parents make judgments every day.

Her goal, she explains, is to learn more about why intentions matter to us when we make moral judgments.

«Judgments about moral character are ultimately judgments about whether we trust and would be willing to invest in a person,» says Judgments about moral character are ultimately judgments about whether we trust and would be willing to invest in a person,» says judgments about whether we trust and would be willing to invest in a person,» says Critcher.

The basic idea is to ask about the sources of our moral judgments.

The moral content of that first word biases your judgment about the morality of the second word.

His point is to complicate our view of human behavior and to object to moral certainties that encourage black - and - white judgments about what's good and what's evil.

So, the next time you catch yourself starting to slip into moral judgments and labels around food, leave the guilt behind and try to instead think about food as molecules or puzzle pieces.

But the more we talked about our food choices, the more I wondered: When did eating become such a moral judgment call?

Criticizing an ethicist for making moral judgments would be like taking to task a movie reviewer who makes aesthetic judgments about the latest films.

There was a post-sixties smugness about it — citizens with genuine social conscience in a time of national secrecy, openhearted citizens without judgments, an expectation that the families who lived there had a new moral superiority.

In my view, decisions about the content of law and regulation, and in particular the duties and obligations of lawyers, necessarily involve moral judgments.

And it seems to me that The Righteous Mind has something interesting to say about the practice of law, where we deal regularly with judgments — moral and otherwise — and justifications.

But ultimately these judgments rest not on the scientific or social facts as such, but on moral judgment calls about how one evaluates these facts.

Since I've designated today as a day to think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the problem that produced Authorson v Canada.

Since I've designated today as a day to think about ethics, it's worth quoting from a recent US judgment on a issue that had and has both legal and moral implications that comes from the boomer days — the Viet Nam war and the consequences of the use of Agent Orange — and comparing that to how the Canadian government handled the problem that produced Authorson v Canada... [more]