Sentences with phrase «moral mode of being»

It purports to be about things and persons within a distinctly moral mode of being.

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The basic goods are supplemented by moral principles, sometimes called «modes of responsibility.»

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.

Every people has its culture, whether primitive or advanced, and this culture is discerned in the folkways and moral standards, forms of family life, economic enterprises, laws and modes of dealing with lawbreakers, forms of recreation, religion, art, education, science, and philosophy that constitute the social aspects of human existence as contrasted with the bare biological fact of living.

Much of American politics has been in the mode of moral crusade.

Unlike Wood's scheme, this one does not make a point of separating «moral theology» as a distinct inquiry in its own right; here it is a mode of «critical practical theology.»

We may not be able to force you to accept CHRIST as your moral compass, but we can at least censor your mode of communication online.

Each one is a unique testimony to the many faces of oppression, to the many modes of moral and spiritual resistance, and to the many brave men and women who died standing up to the tyranny of an empowered dialectical scheme.

(This version of First and Second Goods and their respective modes of fulfillment is adumbrated in the moral theology of Alfonsus Liguori and the practical philosophy of Bernard Lonergan, each of whom understood himself as part of the natural law tradition.)

It must be admitted that there are certain potential vices to virtue ethics even in its minimalist mode, i.e., even when it does not try to crowd out the legitimate insights of deontologists and utilitarians (e.g., from the deontological side, that there are limits — deontoi — regarding what any virtuous person can be permitted to do, and, from the utilitarian side, that there are calculations which are relevant regarding many moral decisions the virtuous person must make).

Any language adequate for theology must be of a very considerable breadth and expressive power; it must include modes of expression for mathematics and science, for describing our moral behavior, our values, our hopes, fears, and loves, and so on.

It is needed because once again our technology has outpaced our traditional modes of moral reasoning.

But, if we gag the inner cynic in me, it bears noting that there's a moral / ethical reason to attack someone who gasses civilians, in certain ethical frameworks (where for example, chemical weapons are qualitatively different than other modes of attacking civilians).

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Earlier modes of isolation, such as those relied upon in nineteenth - century prisons, were thought to induce moral reform in the prisoner.