Sentences with phrase «moral language»

Our research investigates how moral language helps raise environmental issues on the national agenda because it effectively motivates people on both sides.

If we refuse to use moral language in our discussion, we lose our ability to hold the perpetrators of such acts responsible for their actions.

The Declaration's language of universal human rights is not the only moral language available to us in confronting threats to human dignity.

Such «non-judgemental» forms of speech are tailored to a society wary of explicit moral language.

«Judge Jones used what I would call moral language in praising the death penalty as a means to help people come to terms with the crime they committed.»

Today, more than a century after Lincoln articulated a moral center on behalf of national reconciliation, secularity has so infiltrated our leadership and our elite institutions that presidential candidates are reluctant to employ moral language and are uncertain about any symbolic code.

The student is commanded: «You [will] show a willingness to improve your current moral language, because it may be incomplete.»

In The Descent Into Hell he states: «A fully eschatological faith must repudiate traditional moral language.

Market language has displaced moral language.

During the primaries Mondale steered clear of explicitly biblical moral language, leaving to Jesse Jackson prophetic exhortations to «feed the hungry, save the children,» pursue peace, and «restore the conscience of this nation,» lest we be punished by a just God.

When schools respond to student misconduct with moral language, they are providing the guidance students need, says Damon.

At the same time, moral language also makes people more polarized and less willing to accept compromise, making it harder to reach a policy agreement.

Thinking Ethically About the Environment This short course helps students - from high school to adult learners - to recognize and use moral language to describe how they value the earth.

Reaching through the haze of post-Christian understanding, employing against itself the only moral language she knows» the Judeo - Christian language of victims» Arundhati Roy alights by chance on a solution.

One recurring criticism of the bishops is their alleged naivete both in thinking that «community» is possible in a liberal society and assuming that America has something like a common moral language.

It means also to remain aloof from many of the moral languages of our time, which are — even at their most sentimental, tender, and tolerant — usually as decadent and egoistic as the currently most fashionable vices.

Terms like nation, state, government, rule of law, citizenship, passport, and legal justice are minimized or even absent, while the moral language of inclusion, hospitality to strangers, and compassion dominates.

If the minority obsession for human rights is to enjoy sustained popular support, it must speak the moral language of the American people.

In what follows, I will focus on three of these narratives — about Dr. P., Jimmie G., and Rebecca — showing how these develop the case for «a romantic science of the concrete» and bringing into play the moral language so wanting in Sandel's account.

The suspicious veteran of the culture wars wonders, «What kind of moral language will be weighed and found wanting?

Braithwaite argues that religious assertions are «primarily declarations of adherence to a policy of action, declarations of commitment to a way of life».12 Religious language is a form of moral language, an affirmation of one's intention to act in a particular way.

«Staff and prisoners still speak a moral language of making a difference but there is a general shift in the Prison Service towards a security - and - efficiency driven management style that risks stifling professional enthusiasm by its process and performance - oriented culture.»

Schools must present students with objective standards expressed in a moral language that sharply distinguishes right from wrong and directs students to behave accordingly.

In our time, a hesitancy to use a moral language remains the most stubborn and distracting problem for character education.

Complexity was more readily acknowledged, including the perhaps narrow subjectivity therapists themselves brought to their work, recognising that past recourse to moral language had prevented delving deeper into the multiple possible reasons for an impasse.