Sentences with phrase «moral judgments of history»

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.»

Not exact matches

«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.»

For if he had truly grasped the position Arkes defends he would understand that his own judgment — that Arkes is mistaken at points — is itself dependent on moral notions not contingent upon relative circumstances or the contingencies of history.

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).

How is the author to avoid moralizing, biased judgments or, perhaps worse, a simple reading of history as moral progress or moral decline?

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.

In history man meets himself, and in his encounter with history he encounters again, magnified into superhuman proportions, the fallibility of his intellectual understanding and moral judgment that prevents him from completely understanding and adequately judging both history and himself.

In it are involved the nature of their God, his relation to them and to the stream of history, the framework within which they conceived their moral obligation, the grounds of divine judgment, and the hope of salvation which was to grow into the expectancy of the promised Messiah and the kingdom of God.

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.

The judgment is not a result of the automatic action of some mechanism built into the moral structure of things, but comes directly and personally from Yahweh himself, whose life and power are thus apprehended primarily in history.

Although the moral standards and ethical judgments of this country have long been permeated by Christian teaching, there is a widespread ignorance both of the actual history of the Christian Faith and of its revolutionary character.