Sentences with phrase «moral principles valid»

While there might be disagreement as to whether Christianity was integrative or divisive, scientific method was supposed to find objective moral principles valid for the whole race.

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Accordingly, the remainder of this essay will proceed as follows: I will first seek to show that the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity includes a principle of social action by which a universal community of rights is constituted, so that no moral theory can be valid if it is inconsistent with these rights.

This formative principle presupposes that moral claims can be accepted or contested because they can be valid or invalid and, thereby, presupposes the possibility of valid substantive prescriptions.

Because people with different moral principles than you have morals that are just as valid as yours.

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.

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

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.