Sentences with phrase «moral purpose in»

It re-orientates the disoriented, gives moral purpose in a world beset far less by climate problems than moral relativism, and gives political significance to causes that have long lacked rebels.

He should explain why his moral purpose in politics is defined by extending opportunity to all and narrowing the gaps in life chances in Britain, because we are stronger as a society and an economy when all are included.

Douglas Alexander, the Foreign Office minister, has called for a stronger sense of moral purpose in the campaign.

The intent of this paper is to present a conceptual model of a physical and biological universe in a state of constant change and evolution, based on three principal ideas: (a) neo-Aristotelian notions of reciprocal causality, (b) chaotic dynamics and contingencies of self - organizing systems, and (c) emergence of consciousness and sense of moral purpose in humans.

On the one side, Christians were to exercise undiscourageable goodwill toward evil men, even praying for those who slew them when no other manner of expressing goodwill remained; but, on the other side, the new faith retained the hopeless torture chamber of Gehenna, where punishment was supposed to go on in endless agony long after moral purpose in the torture had been lost.

interest that joins inextricably with the gold of moral purpose in every foreign policy.

The intent of this paper is to present a conceptual model of a physical and biological universe in a state of constant change and evolution, based on three principal ideas: (a) neo-Aristotelian notions of reciprocal causality, (b) chaotic dynamics and contingencies of self - organizing systems, and (c) emergence of consciousness and sense of moral purpose in...

It doesn't and didn't deserve damnation, at least not from anyone not named God, and especially not from remarkably un-peaceful «peace» advocates who seem to find their moral purpose in life by clinging ever more tightly to deluded notions of «empire» the further we get from their hoary 1890s Leninist (See Songbook # 5) provenance.

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Millennials, in particular — who are less likely to be married, less likely to belong to organized religion, and less likely to join outside organizations than previous generations — increasingly look to employers to give their lives purpose, meaning, and a moral anchor.

In fact, it gave the whole business of luxury brands an almost moral purpose.

Just as one can usually distinguish, according to their purposes, a good from a bad saddle or a good from a bad cavalry officer, so too the judgment of good and bad in the ethical sense should be eminently adjudicable if moral behavior is goal - determined.

Tony Judt put it best in his book Post War: «If Europe's past is to continue to furnish Europe's present with admonitory meaning, and with moral purpose» then it will have to be taught afresh with each passing generation.»

In the notable case on assisted suicide in Oregon (Gonzales v. Oregon, 2006), Nino invoked the moral logic of the Hippocratic oath: that there was a rightful purpose in the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his deatIn the notable case on assisted suicide in Oregon (Gonzales v. Oregon, 2006), Nino invoked the moral logic of the Hippocratic oath: that there was a rightful purpose in the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his deatin Oregon (Gonzales v. Oregon, 2006), Nino invoked the moral logic of the Hippocratic oath: that there was a rightful purpose in the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his deatin the medical art and the use of drugs; that the purpose was to secure the health of the patient, not to speed him to his death.

In traditional theism nature has no intrinsic value, so the fact that it exists merely for God's purposes and is then destroyed is of no moral consequence.

According to its dictates, morals should be defined and practiced on the basis of society's purposes, and everything is moral that helps to usher in the final state of happiness.

Discussion of animals in a theological context, when it does arise, has tended to be limited to moral questions: Can we experiment on animals, and if so, for what purpose?

The moral law also was fulfilled by Jesus (he died in my place for failing the moral law), but we Christians now want to live in light of the purpose for which God made us.

For Catholic schools to be a worthwhile enterprise for the Church, they must survive and flourish as institutions where pupils grow in a «personal relationship with Jesus» which includes following the teaching of Jesus, through His Church, that we should attend Mass every Sunday, go to confession regularly, say our prayers and be loyal to the magisterium - especially in its moral teaching regarding the sanctity of human life, and the meaning and purpose of sex and marriage, in accord with Humanae Vitae and Evangelium Vitae.

These three characteristics of our culture — interior restlessness, excessive curiosity and instability of purpose — are described in classical moral theology as the offspring of acedia.

It's what I use to help guide me through life, make moral decisions, how to think of others, my place in this world, meaning, purpose and so on.

The first point to acknowledge in considering this view is that the Church has always taught that it is incompatible with an authentic sense of moral responsibility deliberately to choose what is known to be morally wrong, however good and desirable one's further purpose might be.

While I have tried to describe rather carefully the pastoral role of a clergyman working in a mental health center as contrasted to that of a parish pastor, I think it is important that some aspects of his pastoral role be maintained diligently — his openness to all levels of pastoral conversation, his availability at all times, his understanding of and empathy with the deep yearnings of people for a sense of purpose and meaning in life, forgiveness, moral clarity, the sense of the holy, and the importance of confidentiality and continuity in relationships.

The stuffy materialism, the lack of purpose, the uncertainty about moral values and the collapse of belief in anything beyond the tomb, are not in themselves a rejection of Christianity so much as a cri de cœur the truth of the Gospel.

In order to recapture the robust sense of moral purpose that once characterized the Christian way, we must discard contemporary notions about self - fulfillment.

Economic activity has an inherently moral purpose: to provide the material undergirding for our common life by allocating scarce capital in ways that will promote economic growth.

There's no purpose to it and no purpose in having an objective moral foundation.

In a war that has no clear moral purpose, where it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe or soldier from civilian and where it is forbidden by one's superiors either to win or to lose — such a war impels even fairly decent people to commit atrocities.

This specific practice requires only that two or more individuals agree to suspend other purposes in order to assess the validity of contested moral claims.

I will call this the practice of moral discourse, appropriating the term «discourse» from Habermas and designating with it the specific social practice that suspends other purposes in order to assess the validity of contested claims (see Habermas, Theory 17 - 18,25,42; Moral 158 - 60).

In Home from the War he investigates the themes of death, and rebirth in the context of a war that was widely experienced as being totally without moral justification and redeeming purposIn Home from the War he investigates the themes of death, and rebirth in the context of a war that was widely experienced as being totally without moral justification and redeeming purposin the context of a war that was widely experienced as being totally without moral justification and redeeming purpose.

But can we agree on the last statement of the quoted paragraph regarding man — the idea that «in him as a person all the moral ends of the universe and all the movement of God's eternal purpose find meaning»?

On this conclusion, the comprehensive purpose as a principle for moral decisions may be formulated: maximize creativity in the human future as such.

Seneca and Pliny wrote with the purposes of moral exhortation and instruction in view.

It is common, and for certain purposes quite helpful, to contrast the approaches of Bentham and Kant, to see in them the two quite different normative paths — consequentialist and deontological — modern moral philosophy has taken.

I see the Old Testament in its totality laying a permanent foundation for faith by its disclosure of God's moral character, sovereign rule, redemptive purpose, and covenant faithfulness and by its exhibiting of the positive dispositions of faith, praise, and obedience contrasted with the negative dispositions of mistrust and rebellion.

If one reads recent Catholic just war thinking one regularly finds the idea of right intention collapsed into just cause or used to reinforce that moral requirement, as in this formulation from the Catholic bishops of the United States: «Force may be used only for a truly just cause and solely for that purpose.»

The Song, therefore, is didactic and moral in its purpose.

They do not in themselves give capitalism a positive moral purpose.

Thus it is clear that there is an inescapable moral aspect in all preaching, an aspect whose purpose is to awaken conscience and to move the hearers to do what Kierkegaard once styled «the works of love.»

One knew beyond doubting that life was significant, that hideous circumstance — a broken leg miles from help — could be transcended through faith in Jesus and fierce moral purpose.

As Wayne Meeks has argued, «This letter's most comprehensive purpose is the shaping of a Christian phronesis, a practical moral reasoning that is «conformed to Christ's death» in hope of his resurrection.»

In A Preface to Morals, an attempt at humanistic theology, Lippman charged Whitehead with having a conception of God «which is incomprehensible to all who are not highly trained logicians,» a conception which «may satisfy a metaphysical need in the thinker,» but «does not satisfy the passions of the believer,» and for the purposes of religion «is no God at alIn A Preface to Morals, an attempt at humanistic theology, Lippman charged Whitehead with having a conception of God «which is incomprehensible to all who are not highly trained logicians,» a conception which «may satisfy a metaphysical need in the thinker,» but «does not satisfy the passions of the believer,» and for the purposes of religion «is no God at alin the thinker,» but «does not satisfy the passions of the believer,» and for the purposes of religion «is no God at all.

As the Benedictus Trust website explains: «In his book The Idea of a University Bl John Henry Cardinal Newman asserts that the primary purpose of a university should be to teach theoretical knowledge, following the distinction made by Aristotle in the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics between moral and intellectual virtues; the moral life concerned with practical knowledge and the intellectual life primarily concerned with theoretical knowledge — that is, «knowledge for the sake of itself»In his book The Idea of a University Bl John Henry Cardinal Newman asserts that the primary purpose of a university should be to teach theoretical knowledge, following the distinction made by Aristotle in the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics between moral and intellectual virtues; the moral life concerned with practical knowledge and the intellectual life primarily concerned with theoretical knowledge — that is, «knowledge for the sake of itself»in the first book of the Nicomachean Ethics between moral and intellectual virtues; the moral life concerned with practical knowledge and the intellectual life primarily concerned with theoretical knowledge — that is, «knowledge for the sake of itself».

While natural law and Augustine's moral theology might be difficult for some, the rules derived from them were understood by ordinary Catholics: Sexual intimacy is permissible only in a sacramental marriage between one man and one woman, and the purpose of marriage is the procreation and education of children.

Most liberal Protestants have been in some sense theists, believing that moral life, consciousness, and awareness of purpose and destiny are clues to the nature of the greater Reality which created humanity.

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.

In principle, physical education provides the best opportunity for the harmonious development of the entire person, through contests of skill in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activitIn principle, physical education provides the best opportunity for the harmonious development of the entire person, through contests of skill in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activitin which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activity.

Before considering the argument in detail, a brief summary of it can be seen in the following three propositions: (1) The sexual organs and their related act have a purpose; (2) Acts that directly oppose the primary purpose of the sexual act are immoral; (3) Acts that satisfy ancillary purposes of the sexual act without directly opposing the primary purpose of the sexual act are moral.

But in none of these writings is there any sustained attempt to give an eschatological interpretation to the facts of the ministry of Jesus apart from His passion, death, and resurrection, even though all three writers are aware that His death was the final expression of a character and a moral purpose which displayed itself in His whole incarnate life.

That this universe is fundamentally a moral order, that there are reason and purpose in it, that what ought to be done can be done, that, as Carlyle cried, «No lie can live forever» — these are religious convictions which undergirdle men to carry on when carrying on is hard.