Sentences with phrase «moral judgments on»

Some people are morally opposed to termination of babies with Down syndrome, especially because the condition doesn't usually cause life - threatening health problems, and thus people's moral judgments on termination may extend to the amniocentesis test because the test can be a catalyst for people deciding to terminate their pregnancies.

Once a justice has made the moral decision that he can in good conscience swear to uphold the Constitution, his moral judgments on matters before the Court are not in play.

I do not suggest that pastors of the church should not offer moral judgments on human activities.

I don't have the right to impose my preferences or moral judgments on them.»

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

What if a member of an academic department has simply done what I have done» given public testimony, or published a moral judgment on gay marriage?

The participant is asked to disregard the prime and make a moral judgment on whether the target word is wrong or neutral, or somewhere in between, in under a second.

(paras. 1, 2 - 7) In January 2017, Judge Danièle Tremblay - Lamer dismissed the application, stating that «[t] he role of the Court is not to pass moral judgment on the Minister's decision to issue the export permits but only to make sure of the legality of such a decision».

Dirty Tackle will tell you everything you need to know about the world of football while dropping the occasional life lesson and passing moral judgment on your wretched existence Frequency about 3 posts per month.

Not exact matches

We risk handing to corporations a very potent weapon if we arm them with the moral license to pass judgment on our off - the - job behaviour.

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

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?

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.

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).

«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.»

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.

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

I don't think there has been enough information here to give a judgment on Joe Paterno based on logic just on emotional hype and moral holier - than - thou speculation.

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).

But Novak persuasively suggests that there are three such rights: first, that God hear the cry of our prayer; second, that He tell us how we should live; and, third, that He render judgment on our actions, thus making us moral agents of consequence.

And as an elected political leader his task is not to render a legal opinion but to bring his best judgment, including moral judgment, to bear on public policy.

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.

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.

Precisely because it has largely isolated itself from the rest of America, Belmont can get on quite well without the strict judgments of the old moral codes.

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:

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.

The purpose is to examine the value judgments and moral reasonings that inform current debates and practices, and to reflect on their similarities and dissimilarities with the Holocaust.

(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.)

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.

obligation in relation to each public moral issue as it arises; a word of the retrieval of the culture's most creative ideals and institutions; a world of judgment on the culture's present and potential sins; a word of forgiveness whenever it is repentant; a word of promise and so of confidence (in God, if not in itself) for the future.

This letter brought a Christian judgment to bear on the greatest moral threats to our national life and on our favorite self - deceptions.

A Church in which this approach to ethics is understood will be more fully able to reconcile within its own body those who emphasize one or the other principle, and those who disagree profoundly in their judgment on particular moral issues.

Without reflecting on the motives or the moral integrity of these authors, one must differ radically with their judgment.

It is my belief that to some extent he did share it, though he transformed it by an emphasis on the mercy as well as the judgment of God and on the love of God and neighbor as the criterion for God's moral demands.

Its vastness, its diversity, on the whole, its lack of discriminating judgment as to what may be called sacred — so that it includes both the highly moral and the base — make it a literature difficult for peoples of Hebrew - Christian backgrounds to appreciate fully.

On what higher moral sense do you base your judgment?

Their value can only be ascertained by spiritual judgments directly passed upon them, judgments based on our own immediate feeling primarily; and secondarily on what we can ascertain of their experiential relations to our moral needs and to the rest of what we hold as true.

It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion of judgment based on an exercise of free will, completely disregarding any notion of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations of a Nuremberg defense by placing their self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.

In 16:24 - 27, the future judgment that involves «repaying everyone for what has been done» is related to the moral demands placed on Christ's followers.

When practicing the Law of Love, we are pretty much «flying by the seat of our pants,» relying on common sense and intuition rather than a moral manual or theological dogmas to keep us from making errors in judgment.

If in public places like our major universities we are going to operate on the premise that moral judgments are relative to communities, then we should follow the implications of that premise as consistently as we can and not absolutize one, or perhaps a few, sets of opinions and exclude all others.

On the one hand, one of the most conventional ideas of campus pluralists is that all moral judgments are relative to particular groups; at the same time, many of these same people insist that within the university their own moral judgments should be normative for all groups.

Stated formally, we may put the question this way: On what grounds are we to base our judgments of value and thus our moral, social and political decision - making?

Without the affirmation of a moral universe, without the recognition of some kind of realm of «ultimacy,» there can be no ontological basis on which we can justify making moral judgments at all.

Morality does not rule out feeling — on a human level moral judgment is simply logically in a different category than ordinary feeling.

Both judgment and redemption on God's part rest the foundation of the covenant idea; likewise the demand for obedience and hence for unremitting moral responsibility on man's side.

Can we expect correct moral judgments to come from a society that considers it harmless entertainment to find such things as video links on this very website to «Kate Upton weightless in a bikini,» rather than to see it for what it is as a disgusting, childlike fascination with things that should be left alone.

It has startled us in so many ways, and while some of us are quick to make moral and other judgments, I suspect that above all it is something that frustrates and overwhelms because it seems to go on no matter what we say or do, and because of the overpowering and almost inexorable way it has already swept and will continue to sweep over various parts of our lives.

With respect to history and moral judgment, the New York Times was and is on the wrong side, and stays there with pitiable consistency.