Sentences with phrase «moral tradition»

It also breaks with the entire moral tradition of humankind by rejecting the existence of values independent of the goals of material progress.

While the extent to which homosexuality is a genetic trait is often overstated, nothing in the Christian moral tradition hinges on this question.

To say that nothing whatever has come out of that discussion is to make nonsense out of all the great moral traditions — Stoic, Buddhist, humanistic, or democratic, as well as Christian.

They associate it with a liberalism that is purely «procedural,» that prescinds from moral tradition or judgment.

For the classical moral tradition, reason is less the restricted faculty bequeathed to us by the Enlightenment than it is our «gateway to reality,» and prudence is how reason transforms knowledge of reality into decisive action in realizing the good.

They are part of a long moral tradition, and meant to stand opposite a list of capital virtues (faith, hope, love, wisdom, justice, courage and temperance).

The real test of love as seen in the deeper moral traditions of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness of persons to commit their lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till death do us part».29

Thus do Democrats virtually invite their opponents to claim, falsely, monopoly on the religio - moral tradition with which most Americans identify.

Profound moral traditions have the means to tutor our sensibilities and transform conscience, and they do so in part through what is remembered, in part through what is believed, and in part through symbolic, ritual and textual resources that form the moral imagination.

A realistic sense of the boundaries of the humanly possible in given situations is not foreign to the classic moral tradition of the West; prudence, after all, is one of the cardinal virtues.

Culture politics is therefore a contention over what religious or quasi-religious moral tradition, if any, will guide our deliberating and deciding how we ought to order our life together.

Most Notre Dame undergraduates arrive at the University without knowing the basics of their own moral tradition» and most graduate in the same condition.

One response is that we are referring to a common moral tradition rather than a common religious tradition, although that is not entirely satisfactory since morality and religion can not be so neatly separated.

A traditional congregation is a community of memory because it not only maintains its own congregational story but is part of a larger moral tradition that extends back through time.

We can recognize that the humanist and individualist moral traditions are also necessary to public life.

Unforgivably in the eyes of these latter, he was an unapologetic defender of the lower - middle - class moral traditions from which many knowledge workers of his generation had emerged and escaped.

One can almost hear him berating Wiesel, as he claims to have berated Martin Buber for his too easy justifications of the ways of God after the Holocaust: «We must act justly, especially when such action seems imprudent or embarrassing» because there is a Jewish moral tradition.»

«Because patients and physicians come from many different moral traditions, religious and secular, they will sometimes disagree about whether a particular medical intervention is morally permissible.»

Our inherited moral traditions are the essential elements of civilized society.

The locus of the controversy is the contrast between those who adhere to the western Christian moral tradition and those committed to the «sexual revolution» wishing to further the revolution using school children as a captive audience.

This allows Balthasar to disagree with Barth's wholesale rejection of natural theology but transform this overly theologized insight into a practical claim regarding the inefficacy of modern Catholic appeal to the classical Western metaphysical and moral tradition in today's secular culture.

The solution to this problem in the Catholic moral tradition has been to point out that a difference of ends need not make for a conflict of ends if the one end is appropriately subsumed within the other.

While asking the child to take the perspective of another who would be hurt by a harmful act, a teacher could draw the student's attention to the great moral traditions that have proclaimed the importance of doing so, connecting the student's personal sentiments with the earlier wisdom of civilizations.

But a failure of gentleness is what keeps most survivors from achieving temperance; and the fact that gentleness is the last thing that comes to mind as necessary in a zombie apocalypse only shows how far we are from understanding the classical moral tradition.

The organization describes itself as «D.C.'s premier institute dedicated to applying the Judeo - Christian moral tradition to critical issues of public policy.»

It's a Lockean philosophy of political sovereignty applied to the realm of moral tradition.

The conservative believes that we need to guide ourselves by the moral traditions, the social experience, and the whole complex body of knowledge bequeathed to us by our ancestors.

«Elizabeth Warren... said consumer protection is rooted in religious and moral traditions.»»

Elizabeth Warren, who last year was tapped by President Obama to oversee the creation of the bureau, said consumer protection is rooted in religious and moral traditions.

If one were to ask how it is we know when the practices of one moral tradition can be used to measure another, the answer must be pursued on a case - by - case basis.

What is chosen therefore is one of those types of act which «in the Church's moral tradition have been termed «intrinsically evil» (intrinsice malum): they are such always and per se, in other words on account of their very object, and quite apart from the ulterior intentions of the one acting and the circumstances.»

But no one reasons in a vacuum, and part of the goal of a moral tradition» certainly a goal of the Christian moral tradition» is to order and elucidate people's experiences towards understanding and flourishing.

More likely, the resurgence is simply giving public expression to what has been there all along in an overwhelmingly Christian nation rooted, albeit sometimes tenuously, in the Judeo - Christian moral tradition.

Some thinkers, especially conservative theologians and cultural critics, appeal to their specific faith or moral traditions.

But it actually might be true that both the unpartnered state and the disproportionate crime rate are rooted in a common source — the crisis in legitimacy of once - accepted religious and moral traditions.

There is a good case for specialist teachers in this area, teachers who have the specialised ability to teach a curriculum which assumes a detailed knowledge and appreciation of the Catholic moral tradition and who have the gifts and personal character and lifestyle that would enable them to teach the course with credibility.

Yet the original says that the Church's moral tradition in this matter is based upon «Sacred Scripture which presents homosexual acts as acts of grave depravity».

In fact there is a one - sided attempt to undermine the Biblical basis of the Church's moral tradition by asserting, without supporting argumentation, that «it is not particularly helpful to quote certain texts from the Old and New Testaments which are often used, in a somewhatfundamentalist way, to condemn homosexuality» [6].

These movements were marked by fidelity to an assumed doctrinal and moral tradition.

By and large Lutheranism has dissipated the authority of the ministry, ceased serious discipline, compromised the sacraments, relativized the moral tradition, and eschewed magisterial continuity.

The genius of Catholicism has been displayed in its achievement of uniting the moral teaching of the Bible with the rationalistic tradition of Aristotelian ethics, Stoicism, and the tradition of natural law, and in its continuing capacity to adjust and refine its moral tradition in the light of new situations.

Still, Oakeshott's fundamental insight about Rationalism is of great importance for all of us who wish to cultivate, or resuscitate, as the case may be, an intellectual or moral tradition.

But Meier is far more a child of our political and moral tradition of individualism than he realizes.

The moral tradition that shaped the West is an amalgam of classical and Christian sources.