Sentences with phrase «moral principles known»

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.

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Society euthanizing the elderly, with or without consent, once they are no longer productive would be a more moral and more effective stance that arguing abortion for economic principles.

Aristotle wrote that the criterion of good moral action is not a principle or a law so much as «the man of practical wisdom» ¯ that is, the person in your environment who habitually makes the wisest and bravest decisions of anyone else you know.

According to this understanding, the role of religion in political debate is not so much to supply these norms, as if they could not be known by non-believers — still less to propose concrete political solutions, which would lie altogether outside the competence of religion — but rather to help purify and shed light upon the application of reason to the discovery of objective moral principles.

«Nominals» were raised to appreciate (though not know) the Bible, a certain moral code and general Christian - ish principles.

Because of this, at least, the physician is also a moral person, the subject of an ethical imperative addressed to him, no matter to what he attributes this absolute principle.

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.

The best short summary of the traditional, natural law understanding of conscience was given by Thomas Aquinas when he said that the core principles of the moral law are the same for all «both as to rectitude and as to knowledge» — in other words, that they are not only right for all but known to all.

Alternatively, and in contrast to the first two positions, there is the view that value is rooted in a «moral universe» which can be at least fairly well known and approximated by man through his rational capacities; this moral universe participates in, yet in its fullness transcends, the actual shape of culture, history and human will; and the task of moral agents is to discover and act on the principles, laws and rules that this universe contains and reveals to the discerning moral conscience.

The real situation in which the Christian of today has to make his moral decisions is in any case such that in very many and very important instances, the decision can no longer be the simple and obvious application of the principles concerning essences, even if he respects these as absolutely and universally valid.

Of course Catholic moral theology has always known that there are concrete moral situations in which the application of universal principles leads to no certain, generally accepted and theoretically unambiguous results.

He made the case that if we base our objections to this on our own conscience rights, we may absolutize the privatization of moral principles, such that the public square is no longer responsible to any standard of right and wrong.

(a) It completely does away with any Christian doctrine of sin, for sin is no longer the result of a moral choice made in rebellion against God by the mind and the heart of man; sin is simply a physical principle in matter and in all that is composed of matter.

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.