Sentences with phrase «moral uncertainties of»

Reflecting the chaos, turmoil, suffering, and moral uncertainties of the mid-twentieth century, the series is a testament to the timeless and transcendent aspects of the human condition, such as the co-existence of joy and pain, of hope and suffering, and of life and death.

The film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes...

From that point on, the film devolves into the cozily predictable world of TV legal dramas, abandoning the moral uncertainty of its opening scenes for the benefit of a villain so comically over-the-top in his evil, he might as well be theatrically twirling a mustache and tying a damsel in distress to train tracks.

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The reality is that those really concerned about human dignity are those who are willing to place faith in moral absolutes which safeguard that dignity against the uncertainties of cultural trends.

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.

While the Heisenberg principle gets us closer to the real nature of physical things, moral uncertainty is confusing and debilitating.

(Nov. 9), «What to do with nuclear waste is a problem that requires a moral examination precisely because it is so filled with uncertainty that we dare not resolve it without some sense of a higher purpose at stake.»

Contemporary erotic etiquette, even among the young, has so drained physical love of its enticingly forbidden and urgent quality, and so dispelled its atmosphere of rapturous risk, moral uncertainty, tantalizing mystery, and irresistible yearning, that the actual quantum of pleasure in the transaction is often, one imagines, diminished to a very transitory set of neural agitations.

One is the scene in which Dolly is on her way to visit Anna at Vronsky's estate in the country; as she travels, the narrative takes us into her thoughts, which are perfectly ordinary: her anxieties as a mother, principally, and as a wife, and her moral uncertainties; but it is all rendered with such confident and seemingly omniscient artistry that one almost feels as if one has momentarily become this woman, and can think and feel as she does; and more than one female critic has called attention to how well Tolstoy succeeds here at imagining his way into the worries and regrets of a wife and mother.

We know that among many of the emotionally disturbed there is a crisis of morals, contradictory attitudes toward behavior, an uncertainty concerning a way of life, and often an unrealistic drive toward perfectionism.

For those who still cling to their now fully discredited religious reservations Obama assures them that he offers this dismissal of their views as a «person of faith»; likewise, for those who still insist there is any moral uncertainty, he comforts them with the simplistic platitude that the only relevant moral imperative is our «work to ease human suffering».

So as we mark the anniversary of the pill, we should spend more time trying to understand the social forces that caused us to react to the pill as we did, allowing us to discard a long - standing moral consensus, leaving only sexual chaos and uncertainty.

While a process - based ontology may avoid prescribing an immutable set of moral principles, we may yet discern — within its existential uncertainties and contingencies — a universal normative principle that reflects the reciprocal causal unity and «novel togetherness» of the many becoming one.

In ethics the dualistic uncertainty over the nature of «reality» and our perception of it is a major justification for modern moral relativism, or the claim that what is called morality is actually grounded in nothing but people's emotive and purely arbitrary preferences.

The public consensus veers between sympathy for animal rights — although it is only some animals that are included, you do no hear much about the «rights» of insects and spiders, for example — and uncertainty about the moral boundaries surrounding human life and death — although, of course, outright murder is still regarded as a crime.

Leidner and colleagues recall how political and social psychology researchers have in recent decades steadily gained more understanding, through research, of such psychological factors as intergroup threat, uncertainty, group identity, emotions, moral beliefs and how intergroup conflict affects views of the world and of oneself.

That, certainly, is the mainstream Jewish view to this day; however, Oz's implication that his mother's foreboding and dread — even before the 1948 war gets under way, and in stark contrast to his father's bullish espousal of nationalist sentiment — is a prefiguring of Israel's future of violence, splintering and moral uncertainty: Faina herself uses the word «abyss».

Combining open world design with a strong story, and allowing you to colour in the patches of moral uncertainty with red or blue is something inFamous has long stood for, embodying the grand question of what would an ordinary person do if they developed superpowers?

The exhibition revolves around postsexual subjectivity, Ratpiss, the absurdity of culture, precapitalist sexuality, moral, and Heisenberg's uncertainty principle.

Then in 1944 Newman returned to painting - after first destroying most of his previous work - and over the next 5 years evolved his signature style of Colour Field Painting: a style in line with his view that, in an age of moral uncertainty and physical insecurity, the only rightful subject matter for an artist was the «sublime».

Given that the mainstream scientific community now believes that the world is quickly running out of time to prevent dangerous climate change, the moral problems with waiting until all climate scientific uncertainties are resolved are unfortunately becoming obvious.

... a breathtaking dash through personal hypocrisy, factual inaccuracy and political rhetoric... it's very hard to interpret this as a statement made in good faith... a clearer example of disinformation could not be wished for... excellent means to give a misleading impression of uncertainty... shortsighted vision and moral bankruptcy... a shameless call to narrow self - interest... Professor Curry advocates unwise policy based on false claims and bankrupt morals.

However, if climate change is understood as essentially a moral and ethical problem it will eventually transform how climate change is debated because the successful framing by the opponents of climate change policies that have limited recent debate to these three arguments, namely cost, scientific uncertainty, and unfairness of reducing ghg emissions until China does so can be shown to be deeply ethically and morally problematic.

Common to these arguments is that they have successfully framed the climate change debate so that opponents and proponents of climate policies debate facts about costs, scientific uncertainty, or economic harms to nations that act while other large emitters don't act rather the moral problems with these arguments.

Ethical concerns is only one part of the argument as scientific uncertainties = moral dilemmas ie tradeoffs are non trivial argument in an economic climate dominated by peak money.

That ability is to manipulate perceptions (e.g. of real - world uncertainty itself), values, and even morals, which means among other things that once birthed the CAGW memeplex rapidly insulated itself from actual climate events....

Being a Borg collective cult of AGW groupthink space cadet on the other hand means never having to question your assumptions — feeling supreme overconfidence that only the Borg collective can bring — having complete faith in your moral and intellectual superiority — self censoring doubts and uncertainties — indulging in the illusion of unanimity and kowtowing to self appointed mind guards.

It seems that with prisoners the key difference, in the eyes of life insurance companies, is the moral aspect, the uncertainty of prison life, and that prisoners are more likely to make enemies.