Sentences with phrase «moral principle»

Its wording varies considerably and has its roots in a wide range of world cultures and major religions and is a fundamental moral principle of life; promoting peace and coexistence.

High moral principle is his only safe guide; the only torch to light his way amidst darkness and obstruction.»

As the old quote goes «Hell hath no fury like a vested interest disguised as a moral principle.»

I don't have aggregate dollars as my moral principle.

By working from this moral principle, students begin to appreciate that money can be a resource for community wellbeing, not just individual wealth.

In The Closing of the American Mind, which appeared in 1987, Alan Bloom wrote that among young people «openness» had ascended to the status of supreme moral principle, just as «relativism» had become axiomatic in philosophy.

The dialogue immediately preceding Diana's noble charge, in which the well - meaning but decidedly mortal Steve Trevor tells her to forget about the plight of villagers trapped on the other side of No Man's Land, reinforces her character's guiding moral principle — to protect the innocent — while her calm, confident stride as mortars explode all around her wordlessly conveys both her courage and naïveté.

Finally, we have a man of great moral principle who sought to do the right thing, but was blocked by corrupt and jealous political adversaries.

Watch video and learn about the moral principle, respect the religious beliefs of others, from The Way to Happiness moral code book, based on common sense.

Brown should recognise that there's «a simple moral principle at stake: those who are prepared to die for this country should be allowed to live in this country.»

Nick Cohen in an excellent piece at the Spectator rightly blames Isabel Oakeshott, its political editor, for breaking journalists» first law and, he adds, their one moral principle -LSB-...]

Are you abandoning all moral principle to support a shambolic dishonorable and shameless Labour Government?

Fed up of being asked to sacrifice almost every moral principle they hold dear in a relentless, rightwards drive for electability, they're taking a stand in defence of traditional Labour values.

Piety is also structured, finally, by moral principle.

The first half of our basic moral principle is that we should adopt and nurture an orientation of critical commitment to challenging ideals.

My hope more than anything is that our country be led by a good person of sound moral principle.

And in the absence of any such compelling reason, the moral principle that it is wrong to kill people constitutes a powerful argument against capital punishment.

The second half of this moral principle is openness to the real aspect of transcendence.

For many reasons — among them the example which capital punishment sets, its effect on those who must carry out death sentences and, above all, its violation of a basic moral principle — the state ought not to kill people.

Insofar as there is an identity or connection between survival and human welfare, we are dealing with a valid moral principle.

Here was a clear contradiction in moral principle between a primitive idea of cosmic penology and a new ethic.

Theistic imagery can «suggest patterns and unity in the totality of things» by virtue of «an appeal to personal purpose, volitional power, and moral principle as the ultimate explanatory categories».

The people who warned us to avoid moral relativism now tell us that we should compare our choices not to an objective standard but to the alternative, as if an election transcends moral principle.

But the individual is held to have a moral principle or intuition directing each to the well being of others generally.

Defending the Constitution can become a moral principle by which we may use Machiavelli without surrendering to him.

And (here I repeat myself) on what ground of moral principle?

Robert T. Miller examines the morality of using unmanned robotic drones: Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others....

John Paul goes on to say, «Nevertheless, the fundamental moral principle which we find in Ephesians remains the same and produces the same results.

Mutual regard emerges as the paramount Christian moral principle.

Personally, I see «sin» as more along the lines of violating a moral principle.

Then you could just call it violating a moral principle instead of sin and leave behind all of the religious baggage.

All of which is really to say that evil magic is domination of the natural world through science and technology loosed from any sense of moral principle — the culture of death.

While Ogden argues to the existence of an ontic whole as the condition of the possibility of our valuing, it not only can be, but also has been argued with similar care that such a reality, understood as the supreme instance» of that «comprehensive moral principle» required to account fully for human evaluation is thereby likewise necessarily presupposed by such evaluation (Franklin I. Gamwell, Beyond Preference: Liberal Theories of Independent Associations [Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1984], chap.

By contrast, a child's right to protection from a parent's brutality is a matter of both moral principle and law which the courts will enforce.

I would argue that there is no moral principle that say I should have to be taxed more (of my hard earned and well saved / spent dollars) to support idiots who think they can spend spend spend and let good ole» uncle sam and the other hard working tax payers bail them out!

If this is true, then only the vision of the eschatological banquet could be an image of the good, whereas the image of dying for the other — though it is the advent of the good in fallen time — can not itself be the final good, without once more subordinating the person to an impersonal totality, in this case an abstract moral principle.

To be sure, not every moral principle is part of the core, but all moral principles are at least derived from it, if not by pure deduction (killing is wrong and poison kills, so poisoning is wrong), then with the help of prudence (wrongdoers should be punished, but the appropriate punishment depends on circumstances).

Rather, she sees a threat embodied in a particular way of life, one that detaches moral principle from good breeding and mannerliness.

Taken as the sole moral principle it undercuts our ability to articulate an ideal for human life.

So we must also come to understand, withrenewed wonder and gratitude, how the Magisterium of the Word made Flesh lives and speaks in the Church with divinely guaranteed infallibility in the essentials of belief and moral principle until the end of the world.

America must not in any way surrender its devotion to freedom and democracy, although it is always important for Americans to remind themselves that freedom does not mean license and that popular opinion does not preclude moral principle.

No moral principle has been established.

He tries to distinguish between the church's declarations of concrete, Biblically based moral principle (this is its rightful task) and its statements on political policy (this is the province of the government).

Along the same lines, Sapontzis argues that animals» intentional and sincere, kind and courageous actions are moral actions, for they accord with accepted moral norms, and we do not require demonstrations of moral principle in everyday human moral practice (AAMB 51 - 2).

Second, you're trying feebly to turn your own subjective moral feelings of «compassion» into an binding moral principle.

But a criterion for this distinction is itself a substantive moral principle.

Their ultimate goal, the kingdom of God, is after all a society, and their supreme moral principle, love, is a decidedly social virtue.

Just because it is meta - ethical, this principle itself presupposes another or supreme moral principle, and I will subsequently argue that the universal set of tights in question is an indirect application of the teleology backed by neoclassical metaphysics.

These arguments present a special challenge to neoclassical metaphysics because they are advanced by those who, in a time when relativism in some form or other seems to be ascendant, share the affirmation of a universal moral principle or principles.

It should be free in the sense that all individuals who are subject to the common decisions in question have equal rights to participation, and the discourse should be full in the sense that it takes no moral principle or norm to be immune from dissent.