Sentences with phrase «moral standard means»

The fact that a couple thousand years or so ago some people decided to actually write down what they held as their own moral standard means nothing today.

because we set the moral standard means we can't have a moral standard...?

Not exact matches

It also means that morality provisions can not prevent employees from supporting a political party or practicing a specific religion, for example (although some employers, such as denominational school boards, have argued successfully that their religious beliefs allow them to hold employees to a different moral standards).

By this term we mean economic, social, and political structures which do not conform to Christian moral standards....

That doesn't mean that objective moral standards don't exist.

Yet mere «sociality,» even with a conscience grounded in evolutionary imperatives, does not at all mean that nature has created a definite moral standard, such as natural law.

This does not mean that a radical and drastic change in moral standards is always involved.

Lincoln himself knew what it meant to be accused of not having a vision, of having no moral standard and of being a poor leader.

We may, that is, be «living beyond our moral means» in trying to retain such demanding, universal standards of morality without the metaphysical and religious substance that once underlay those standards.

In a similar way, when some people say of Britain, for example, that it is «basically a Christian country», they mean that the accepted standards of behavior and moral values derive from Christian teaching.

Incommensurability, we are told, means «the absence of a common moral standard by which to evaluate competing moral vocabularies.»

Changing moral standards, and changing roles for men and women do not mean that the family has come to an end.

The Hebrew term for «blemish» — which seems originally to have meant a «black spot» — denotes anything, abnormal or deviating from a given standard, whether physical, moral, or ritualistic» (Jewish Encyclopedia).

Since it has always been a main contention of orthodox religion that God represents the very standard and meaning of morality, it comes as a shock to confront a view in which God and morals seem to fail apart and to be separate.

This only means that all existing rules have to measure up to a moral standard.

Such has been the success of the so - called scientific method as a means of rationalising and manipulating the world around us that the idea of extracting value judgments or moral standards from science seems totally alien.

Shared legal custody means that both parents are mutually responsible for their child's health and welfare, and entitled to make major decisions regarding the child's education, religious instruction, medical care, moral standards and emotional needs.

If the mentor does not live up to prescribed standards of professionalism and most important, moral / behavioural expectaions as evidenced by the output of his / her students, and I mean «students», in the plural, then that mentor can be fired from his / her position as a salaried / contractual employee.