Sentences with phrase «moral situation»

Because neither brother defines «tragedy» carefully, each fails to distinguish between a tragic moral situation and a view of life itself as tragic.

You have the chance to explore different moral situations from the safety of your seat.

The Communist theme is established from the off, and the game puts you in moral situations other games refuse to — therein lies its strength.

These two views of tragedy correspond to and illuminate two kinds of moral situation which are extremely perplexing to ethical thought.

The moral includes both the people's character — their perceptions, dispositions, intentions, attitudes and values — and their conscience — the processes by which they, as believers in Jesus Christ and members of his church, discern the will of God and, guided by the community's ethical norms and principles, decide faithful action within particular moral situations.

If both Niebuhrs» views of tragedy can shed light on certain moral situations, both also have their potential dangers.

Reinhold's sense of tragedy, then, by understanding the limits of human righteousness, helps illuminate moral situations in which one can not act with ideal disinterest and pure motives, but believes some evil must be resisted, even though that action — especially when force is used — risks producing some other evil.

While religion is no panacea for all the ills afflicting America, the absence of religion contributes to the worsening moral situation.

Zachary Alexander at Hailing from the Edge takes inspiration from Burns» post in «Low Stakes», and relates a personal story from Fable 3 that suggests a different lesson: ``... absurdist humor was able to get my attention, and create an ambiguous moral situation in a way heavy «evil enemy is amassing on the horizon» setups couldn't.»

«So, perhaps in the future, we can find a way to capture these immediate gut reactions and that could, in turn, help us learn how to predict who is going to behave in moral situations.»

Both these facts can convince those who prefer not to be disturbed that nothing has altered very much in the moral situation of man.

George Orwell, in his famous essay on Dickens, saw in this philosophical and moral muddle not a weakness but a strength, a generosity of spirit, an openness to the irreducible complexity of mankind's moral situation, an immunity to what he called «the smelly little orthodoxies that are now contending for our souls.»

We deliberate about complexity in a moral situation, for instance, by imaginatively varying the things to be taken into account, adding or leaving out actors, motives, interests, domains of consequences, and the like.

«How shall I know in a given case what I ought to do,» he can always turn to the Church which claims to possess the infallible truth of God and which therefore claims to speak with final authority on every moral situation.

Neither the individual Catholic, whether lay or religious, nor the Church itself, escapes the ambiguities of the moral situation.

If we put to ourselves in honest self - examination this question, «When we try to think through to the end our actual moral responsibility before God, what do we see in our moral situation?»

Finally, there is the scandal of our moral situation.

Such is the scandal of our moral situation.

What is demanded of Christian ethics in our time is to show how we can hold together the absolute claim of the God of love upon every life amidst the ambiguities of our moral situation.

Thus there are reasons for thinking that the shift in attitudes toward the right to die is to some extent attributable not to a direct change in moral views but to a change in people's tolerance for others» moral views or moral situations.

And what had to be done in their regard, how men were to act in them in order to do justice to them as constituting a moral situation, had already been practised and repeated innumerable times and its correctness tested, with the exception of a few rare cases of small consequence.

«Our findings reveal that we have two distinct brain circuits that come into action under a moral situation: one of them punishes, the other one donates,» highlights Oliveira - Souza.

Like many faith - based productions (most recently the sports drama «When the Game Stands Tall»), the characters are placeholders in moral situations that are the story's real interest.

, I would recommend it to readers who like British novels and who enjoy reading about social and moral situations.

Bioethics Case Study: Pros And Cons Of Smoking Bans Bioethics case study provides us a way to analyze and think about difficult medical and moral situations.