Sentences with phrase «moral necessity of»

The film is comprehensive in its portrait of not only the moral necessity of the civil rights movement and legislation but also the practical need for them.

He did speak, unendingly, about the moral necessity of taking care of the poor.

Not exact matches

We can, and must, do something to expand opportunity for every young person — not simply as a moral imperative but out of economic necessity and competitiveness.

The necessity of being engaged with the least among us is a moral necessity.

But there is no infantilizing in AA: Seven of the Twelve Steps (steps four through ten) are concerned with the repair of moral shortcomings and the necessity for amends.

What is required by the criterion of human integrity is that occupations be so defined that manual work is also a rational pursuit and an opportunity for constructive imagination, that symbolic skills may be exercised in clear relation to material necessities and in the light of moral responsibilities, and that creative professional activities will be conducted with a vivid sense of the realities of nature and the canons of reason.

For me, it is enough to consider that, in America alone, more than forty million babies have been aborted since the Supreme Court invented the «right» that allows for this, and that there are many for whom this is viewed not even as a tragic «necessity,» but as a triumph of moral truth.

Atheists aren't the one who believe it is an absolute necessity that in order to be moral, one must be afraid of the consequences of being naughty.

Ultimately, this was as much a moral disaster as a financial one, since Rembrandt's Calvinist patrons regarded material wealth as a sign of God's favor, good stewardship of one's assets as an ethical necessity, and bankruptcy as a sin.

In my view, no thinker better highlights the necessity or dignity of intermediary associations (a conservative theme par excellence) nor provides a deeper account of the dependence of modern liberal democracy upon the «moral capital» of premodern times.

[10] Premise [9] violates the necessity of the law of identity stated in [4][11] Therefore, the the property of moral goodness is not identical with the property of neurobiological well - being.

And in addition to the moral argument for the necessity of interreligious apologetics, there is also a strictly intellectual one, having to do with my epistemic duties.

Anselm, despite all his best efforts, ultimately fails in his effort to preserve the moral goodness of God, and Abelard can not account for the necessity of the cross.

It removes the necessity for you to question human morals or to make your own moral decisions, because it lays out a set of simple rules upon which you will always fall back if things get a little too confusing or uncomfortable for independent judgment or consideration.

The depth of the moral problem which was confessed in the Christian News Letter during the last war is not recognized: «As the war takes its course the contradictions between its necessities and the Christian purpose deepens.

The problem of the compromise of the Christian with the necessities of secular life is solved in Catholicism by the establishment within the Church of religious orders in which, through renunciation of «the world,» the life of love can be realized and the moral merit thus achieved, shared with all the believers in the Church.

The collapse of this original phrasing of the problem followed of necessity from the development of monotheism in Israel and especially from the ascription of high moral quality to God.

In every sphere, physical no less than intellectual and moral, and whether it be a question of flowing water, a traveler on a journey, or a thinker or mystic engaged in the pursuit of truth, there inevitably comes a point in time and place when the necessity presents itself, to mechanical forces, or to our freedom of choice, of deciding once and for all which of two paths is the one to take.

It is a moral failure of the worst kind to avoid the necessity of decision - making by hiding behind a «universal» principle applied willy - nilly to everyone.

Hostility creates hatred and contempt; the necessity of either killing or being killed obliterates humaneness; and even those who in times of peace have been cosmopolitans, with international interest and goodwill, become under the spell of war intense group - loyalists with no sense of moral obligation to the enemy.

Athanasius demonstrated that the life of Jesus was prophesied in the Old Testament and discussed the moral necessity that the Creator of the world must also renew it.

For Erasmus, theology was a rather tiresome professional necessity, tending towards blurring of fact, and often a threat to genuine scholarship, simple piety and good morals.

People choose to make egg - free baked goods for a number of reasons varying from allergic reactivity to dietary necessity to moral conscientiousness.

Dr Dan Butt's recent presentation, «Reparations and the End of Empire» (see here for podcast), at the Oxford Department of Politics and International Relation's «Engagement of Theory Conference», makes a cogent case for the connection between past and present actions on a moral level — leading to the necessity of reparation payments between states in a post-colonial world.

I think it is impossible to completely opt out of the system, as in a globalized world, it is damned near impossible to buy 100 % of your disposable income purchases as well as necessities (food, laundry detergent, etc.) from completely moral, environmentally friendly companies with stellar track records for treating their employees right.

«We believe in high - quality public education because it is an economic necessity, an anchor of democracy, a moral imperative and a fundamental civil right,» said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

Educators speak to the «moral imperative,» the necessity of «teaching to the whole child,» the value of «foundational skills for school, college, career, and life,» and «the importance of just being SEL.»

Jack more focused on a moral path while Paul and his massive corporation follows a path of necessity.

Indeed, the Pontifical Academy of Science is planning an entire conference focused upon the moral necessity to address these serious topics seriously:

The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow - men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.»

Although the, «in immediate peril,» «imminent risk,» and, «moral involuntariness,» requirements of the necessity defence (see Perka, [1984] S.C.J. No. 40, [1984] 2 S.C.R. 232; and see the «necessity defence availability» summary below) greatly restrict its use in relation to the defence of property, it has been considered in relation to property offences.

Decreasing risks and symptoms will, by ethical and moral necessity, be part of the treatment.