Sentences with phrase «moral truths»

Having said that, there are certain moral truths that one can expect of all ages.

How could they understand that mathematical truths can not be shoved down students» throats but then participate in a program that essentially tries to shove moral truths down the same throats?

It is a particularly apt characterization of a book like Why Johnny Can't Tell Right from Wrong, which invokes an age of «chivalry» and sexual abstinence, a time when moral truths were uncomplicated and unchallenged.

David Hume, one of our greatest moral philosophers, said that moral truths must «take possession of the heart»; otherwise, «they can have no influence on conduct and behaviour.»

Kant said moral truths were sacrosanct, determined by inviolable rights and duties, lines that could not be crossed.

There are all kinds of moral truths that see the world from different perspectives, and none of them have to necessarily be more right than the others.

-- Empowerment and development of inclusive national narratives — Global knowledge of cultures and histories — Cultural respect and understanding — Communication, exchange and exposure — Global citizenry through responsible media and political statements — Global values and equality — Avoidance of dehumanization of the other and abuse of knowledge — Other moral truths and views.

Reduced to essentials, Shaw's contention is that Hecker and those of his «Americanist» cast of mind did represent an assimilationist current in U.S. Catholic thought — a tendency to bend over backwards to «fit into» American culture — that eventually made possible Ted Kennedy, Barbara Mikulski, Nancy Pelosi, and Joe Biden: cradle - Catholic politicians who support public policies that flatly contradict basic moral truths taught by the Church on the basis of reason and revelation, justify their votes in the name of «democracy» and «pluralism,» and are supported by a lot of fellow - Catholics in doing so.

Against eclecticism it presented a unified vision of the Catholic faith; against perennial fideistic tendencies it maintains unaided reason's capacity to know moral truths and establish the existence of God; finally Thomism does not blur the distinction between grace and nature.

Instead of freely accepting God's gift, we seek to dominate (and even alter) nature, constructing our own moral truths.

They are the only moral truths we have left.

I'm a social conservative who thinks there are moral truths we need to promote simply because they're true.

The answer in America is to revitalize a civil society rooted in the moral truths embodied in human nature.

Many, perhaps most, Catholic theologians whom I knew did not want to believe that there are inflexible moral truths.

We need to show our fellow citizens that religious and moral truths provide the foundation for a just and humane society.

We're in the way of our culture's intense desire to wiggle away from robust moral truths.

But where is their witness to natural law, religious freedom, and enduring moral truths?

Reliable reasoning, especially about moral truths, requires the right prejudices as well as sound syllogisms.

To live a life of purpose with a rock solid anchor for moral truths can only be found in a relationship with Jesus Christ.

A collection of moral truths accepted only on the basis of a cold, hard reason.

She said that her belief in objective moral truths had caused her to question her atheism.

The lesson I draw from this is that to profess moral truths, even when they are not only universally valid but even, in some sense, universally known, can not be a theologically neutral act.

Instead, somewhat like Pope John Paul, Lincoln demanded that the principles of equality and liberty, the moral truths of human dignity which form the Constitution's foundations, become the «civil religion» of every citizen.

As George Weigel notes: «To those who object that the essence of the modern human condition is its plurality, John Paul says — you are right, and that is precisely why wehave to think more seriously about the possibility of moral truths and their relationship to living in freedom.»

And because man lacked the ability to arrive at ethical and moral truths by reason, neither could philosophy become «the handmaiden of theology.»

In proposing this fresh presentation of classic moral truths in a delicate area of pastoral care, the Cracovian theologians drew on the pioneering work done by their archbishop, Karol Wojtyla, in Love and Responsibility — work that Wojtyla, as John Paul II, would later develop in the Theology of the Body.

It is curious that the people who have been telling us for years that there are no moral truths now insist to us that the laws confining marriage to one man and one woman must not only have a moral justification — that is, reasons to establish the rightness or «justice» that «justifies» the law.

The church possesses, or better is possessed by, the principle of life «in Christ» — a life of discipleship that is not simply obedience to a set of moral truths supposedly taught by Jesus but a life in which «Christ dwells in our hearts by faith» and enables his people to act, insofar as they are able, in conformity with his pattern of human existence.

In addition to the Qur» an's primary aim of revealing religious and moral truths, there arc secondary objectives designed to strengthen faith in the Creator or to support the faithful in their hope.

But that's way too rigid when moral truths interfere with the approval of the masses.

One measure of a culture's vitality is the number of moral truths that can be taken for granted, that do not need to be explicitly argued, that are not up for grabs.

While individuals may disagree about what constitutes a just social order, we are united in our commitment to certain moral truths and their public recognition.

It is quite possible, indeed quite sensible, to think that there are moral truths but that statutes and constitutions have standing as law, law to be applied by judges and enforced by the police, only because the authorities have said so.

I am among those cited both as holding «an extravagant skepticism toward the very notions of moral truths and natural rights» and as «regard [ing] any appeal to «natural rights» — any appeal beyond the text of the Constitution — as a pretext for evading the discipline of the Constitution.»

In contrast, «cultural relativism,» which Professor Arkes equates with legal positivism, holds that there are «no moral truths which hold their validity across cultures... [So that statutes or constitutional provisions] have the standing of law only because they are «posited» or set down by the authorities in any country.»

Mr. Arkes may be certain about some moral truths, but if he imagines that he can always persuade five out of nine justices to the same knowledge, he should reflect upon those occasions when, using moral reasoning, he attempted to persuade a faculty meeting of a point that ran counter to the professors» views.

He responds, «The translation has become familiar: The mere presence of disagreement on matters of moral consequence is taken as proof for the claim that there are no moral truths (or «natural law»).»

The formulation and expression of moral truths as positive law is, in our system of government, a system based on consent, a task confided to the people and their elected representatives.

She outlines a structural semiology of sexual morals which connects «is» and «ought,» in order to submit facts to a candid world understood in the light of a well understood grasp of seemingly self evident moral truths.

The predominant tendency was to emphasise action over belief, praxis over orthodoxy, «values» rather than moral truths, and «story» in place of doctrine.

These questions make it clear that the moral truths about marriage, available to reason and faith alike, form a very tight web indeed.

Underlying the book is the view that as people believe in moral truths, that is the opening to argue for the theistic foundation for such views.

We felt called to listen to John Henry Newman's teachings and so be inspired to be witnesses to the beauty of holiness in this land and to defend and proclaim the unchanging moral truths of the Gospel.

But we can expect the best works of art to illuminate and affirm essential human and moral truths — and these will be consistent with Scripture.

However Käsemann1 also drew the inference from his own divergent position: «Jesus did not come to proclaim general religious and moral truths, but rather to say how things stand with the kingdom that has dawned, namely that God has drawn near man in grace and requirement.

It is therefore quite significant that a recent article by Bultmann seems to be by implication a defence of Ksemarm's position against an initial criticism by the Barthian Hermann Diem: Diem had maintained that when all is said and done Käsemann has presented Jesus as only proclaiming «general religious and moral truths» about «the freedom of the children of God», rather than a message in continuity with the Church's kerygma.

Thus the «incarnational» counter to contemporary Gnosticism and its ideology of «you are what you say you are» (irrespective, for example, of biology) will be less an argument than a demonstration: living in concord with the moral truths built into the world and into us, which lead to beatitude or happiness.

The Bible was a collection of fables, false stories, and some moral truths.

So anger has some happy aspects: it is, ideally, a natural signal that somebody's behavior needs to be adjusted; it is a sign of proper moral concerns and of a proper perception of moral truths.

He also examines how the human being who denies these moral truths steeps himself ever deeper in perverted forms of remorse, confession, atonement, reconciliation, and justification, all in the vain attempt to convince himself and others that evil is really good.