- Teaching students to apply general
moral principles from the religious tradition to different moral issues.
For those who look to eternal verities for directly applicable political solutions, he observes: «The deposit of wisdom in the Bible and in the classic books does not contain a systematic and comprehensive statement of
moral principles from which it is possible to deduce with clarity and certainty specific answers to concrete questions.»
He is persuaded by Kant's argument that we can not infer divine designs or
moral principles from empirical observation.
Rather, she sees a threat embodied in a particular way of life, one that detaches
moral principle from good breeding and mannerliness.
Not exact matches
There is a basic
moral principle at work: If debts can not be paid without radically transferring property
from debtors to creditors, the loan should be deemed «bad» and be written down to the ability to be paid while living a normal life.
These, in turn, get mistaken for
moral principles —
from isolationism to exceptionalism.
«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University
from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and
moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.
I am assuming that we can appropriate this
principle from Kant's
moral theory without assuming the rest of it as true, including his restricted view of what a person is.
Certainly it was a radical turn
from long - established
moral principle.
Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and
morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a
principle of existence that is distinct
from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.
Nor will it do to affirm both Darwinian evolution and a vague theism, for the engine of such evolution is, on
principle, incompatible with any design or direction
from above» and that includes
moral design and direction.
In this connection it must be clearly realized
from the start that the belief of the Church, the object of its teaching office, contains both statements about divine realities such as the blessed Trinity, the Incarnation of the Logos, grace, redemption etc., and equally clear and equally obligatory statements about man's correct
moral 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.
As such, the
principle is distinguished
from all substantive prescriptions, adherence to any one of which is not explicitly neutral to all
moral disagreement.
The parable is not a quarry
from which
moral principles can be mined and the remainder left for the slag heap.
As a derivation
from the meta - ethical character of every claim to
moral validity, the specific practice of
moral discourse both implies and is implied by — and, in that sense, belongs to — a
principle that constitutes social action universally.
Bargaining and barter were and are known in all the cultures that have developed
moral and religious traditions, most of which have well - known maxims and
principles that deal with the vast spectrum of social and
moral issues,
from fair weight to marriage contracts, bred in the marketplace.
It begins where women in theology attempt to deconstruct basic ethical
principles such as «the common good» and «the question of
moral power and authority,» but
from there it moves to the creative impulses we see around us, as women in faith and faithfulness reconstruct the future image and face of the Church as a «community of Christ, bought with a price, where everyone is welcome, «14 as Letty Russell describes it.
That, of course, was nonsense if slavery was a
moral wrong, as Lincoln, arguing
from the
principles of the Declaration of Independence, demonstrated that it was.
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).
I must not imagine complacently that my natural
moral sentiments and the modern liberal
principles I endorse will always happily correspond with the demands that flow
from «the reality of the Lord's things.»
But as men became more and more aware of
moral principles and as their thinking was «rationalized», the way in which the sacred was understood, the way in which men came to interpret the more - than - human, was in terms of love and of «persuasion» (as Whitehead put it), although it never lost the awesome quality which evoked
from them worship and adoration.
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.
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.
In fact I could remove the word «God»
from your post and it would still make sense because the
moral and social
principles that we all live by are the SAME whether one is a devout theist or an ardent atheist.
The natural law is a body of unchanging
moral principles known not
from revelation (though parallel to it) but by reason,
principles regarded as a basis for all human conduct: to speak in this way of «the humanisation of sexuality» is simply the understanding of the natural law in particular human circumstances: there is no movement away
from natural law - say, to revelation or ecclesial authority; we are stillwithin its ambit.
In contrast to what was labeled «historical optimism», Morgenthau's realist theory rejects the view that «a rational and
moral political order, derived
from universally valid
principles, can be achieved here and now.
Schweitzer now says this
principle is even broader than love, for
from it one may deduce the
moral requirement of veracity, but this can not be derived
from love alone.
At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us
from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil
from that word on metaphysical
principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our
moral sense.
Even for the Catholic the road
from the general
principles of Christian ethics to concrete decision has become considerably longer than formerly, even when he is determined unconditionally to respect all those
principles, and for a good part of the way, in the last decisive stages of the formation of the concrete
moral imperative, he is therefore inevitably left by the Church's teaching and pastoral authority more than formerly to his own conscience, to form the concrete decision independently on his own responsibility.
Neuhaus, like many who are appalled with the decision to withdraw nutrition and hydration
from Nancy, argues more
from superficial appearances than
from moral principles.
Instead, however, and as the best substitute, the Church would need to give the individual Christian three things: a more living ardour of Christian inspiration as a basis of individual life; an absolute conviction that the
moral responsibility of the individual is not at an end because he does not come in conflict with any concrete instruction of the official Church; an initiation into the holy art of finding the concrete prescription for his own decision in the personal call of God, in other words, the logic of concrete particular decision which of course does justice to universal regulative
principles but can not wholly be deduced
from them solely by explicit casuistry.
There would be questions of systematic theology, for example those concerning the nature of justification, the validity, and knowledge, of the natural law within Christian morality, the possibility and recognition of an individual call coming directly
from God to the conscience in a concrete situation, and the question of the relation of such: a call to universal
moral principles, as well as many other questions with which the ecumenical dialogue will have to concern itself.
Mill concludes, however, that although justice may sometimes appear to be a
moral standard independent of utility, in fact we can adequately account for the claims of justice only if we view them as derivative
from and subordinate to the greatest happiness
principle.
In
moral theology, the derivation of conclusions
from revealed
principles with the help of philosophical reasoning is very common indeed.
If, to return to that obvious and critical example, there is no «human nature,» then there are no universal
moral principles that can be «read»
from human nature.
At least at the level of
principle,
principle never eschewed, it has always acknowledged both the freedom for temporal affairs to be self - regulating and the right for itself to keep a critical outlook on them and to assess
moral, political, and economic practice
from the point of view of ethics.
On St. Thomas's view, freedom is in fact the great organizing
principle of the
moral life — and since the very possibility of a
moral life (the capacity to think and choose) is what distinguishes the human person
from the rest of the natural world, freedom is the great organizing
principle of a life lived in a truly human way.
It is the lust of the flesh for man and / or woman who take things far
from moral behavior and become unmoral in their actions and thoughts
from God
principles of holiness.
Baroness O'Loan, who has tabled Bill, said: «No one should be coerced by the risk to their careers into violating their conscience, and it is plainly inconsistent with the
principles of equality legislation to exclude whole sections of society
from areas of medical employment simply because of their
moral beliefs.»
Because it is a
moral crisis, Christians have the right and the responsibility to speak out and to act — presumably
from the
principle of stewardship which rejects and resists any redescription of man's powers relative to God's such that the earth is seen as man's to do with as he will.
According to the Wikipedia: Advocacy by an individual or by an advocacy group normally aim to influence public - policy and resource allocation decisions within political, economic, and social systems and institutions; it may be motivated
from moral, ethical or faith
principles or simply to protect an asset of interest.
Artificial intelligence is learning right
from wrong by studying human stories and
moral principles.
Max von Laue's
principled moral response at the time, distinguished him
from many of his contemporaries scientists.
The first
principle is the well - being of conscious creatures,
from which we can build a science - based system of
moral values by quantifying whether or not X increases or decreases well - being.
Historians would like to know who founded Nabada and other northern cities, where they came
from, what language they spoke, and around what political and
moral principles their society was organized.
According to both the Sutras and the Dhammapada, following the disciplined practice of
moral and ethical
principles, and after one has sought to actively withdraw engrossment of senses
from the world, it is in the act of meditation by which one witnesses the real dissolution of attachments.
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.
Absorbing and intricately plotted, this family drama
from Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days) unfolds in a bleak Transylvanian town, where local surgeon Romeo (Adrian Titieni) fatefully compromises his
moral principles to boost the exam grades of daughter Eliza (Maria - Victoria Dragus).
Let us consider how
moral and performance character relates to selected
principles from Character.org's 11 Principles
principles from Character.org's 11
Principles Principles Framework.