Sentences with phrase «moral validity of»

I could argue the moral validity of the breeding of dogs, but that is largely a moot point now.

For some this disillusion with the moral validity of American institutions leads to a passionate sense of injustice and a struggle for a more just society.

If I am morally required or permitted to act in a certain manner, and if that action has effects on you, then the moral validity of the prescription on which I act means that your acceptance of those effects is required by reason — and, in that sense, the prescription implies a common decision.

We may also say that the distinguishing mark of a formative prescription is its explicit neutrality to all substantive ones; that is, asserting the former does nor explicitly affirm or deny the moral validity of any prescription whose prescribed action is partisan in some or other moral disagreement.

An association that makes common decisions governing all social action does not honor each individual's right to dissent from the moral validity of any social action unless the association prevents other individuals from violating its governing decisions.

The fact that his name has been officially cleared suggests that Germany has finally and formally recognized the moral validity of the cause for which he gave his life.

Once you've accepted the moral validity of IVF, what is the added harm of transferring the zygote's nucleus into a different enucleated egg?

Not exact matches

after clarifying the validity of this evolving faith based on the material process, the big challenge now is for us humans a coresponding development in the spiritual aspect of our existence, though we are confident of His guidance through evolution, we with our limited insights and intellegence will be able to develop and come up with guide lines in our moral lives.

Accordingly, the remainder of this essay will proceed as follows: I will first seek to show that the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity includes a principle of social action by which a universal community of rights is constituted, so that no moral theory can be valid if it is inconsistent with these rights.

This specific practice requires only that two or more individuals agree to suspend other purposes in order to assess the validity of contested moral claims.

Considered meta - ethically, then, a claim to validity for some moral prescription claims validity for some obligatory evaluation of possible purposes, that is, some designation of choices as those agents ought to make or those reason requires.

I will call this the practice of moral discourse, appropriating the term «discourse» from Habermas and designating with it the specific social practice that suspends other purposes in order to assess the validity of contested claims (see Habermas, Theory 17 - 18,25,42; Moral 158 - 60).

As noted above, the defining purpose of moral discourse is to determine through argument the validity or invalidity of contested moral claims.

«The meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity» designates the common character of all such claims in distinction from nonmoral claims.

Indeed, ad hoc engagements in discourse always presuppose this widest possible discourse because any argument about the validity of social prescriptions is potentially an argument about the most general moral principles and thus about social action generally.

But it seems wrong to say that an individual is morally bound to engage in discourse whenever a recipient of her or his action contests its moral validity.

As a derivation from the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity, the specific practice of moral discourse both implies and is implied by — and, in that sense, belongs to — a principle that constitutes social action universally.

Indeed, they can not be overridden by any other prescription at all, precisely because they are implied by the meta - ethical character of any claim to moral validity, whatever its content.

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.»

Their content, to describe them very simply, may be said to affirm the validity of Christianity in so far as it assures the fulfilment of life or the best possible moral living.

The universal validity of the human rights regime and its basic moral categories has been a contentious issue for some time.

For all the book's concern with politics, however, the heart of Minority Party is a moral proposition: the legitimacy of success in America and the validity of opportunity.

There would be questions of systematic theology, for example those concerning the nature of justification, the validity, and knowledge, of the natural law within Christian morality, the possibility and recognition of an individual call coming directly from God to the conscience in a concrete situation, and the question of the relation of such: a call to universal moral principles, as well as many other questions with which the ecumenical dialogue will have to concern itself.

The cause of this uneasiness becomes clearer if we question Ignatieff's argument at several points: the validity of the moral paradigm itself, the assumptions from which he proceeds, the inconsistencies in how he describes the limits to be observed in doing the «lesser evil,» and his conclusions about specific elements of the war on terror.

It is not sufficient therefore that the Old Testament should indicate a certain moral position (e.g. the practice of slavery or of divorce, or that of extermination in the case of war) for this position to continue to have validity.

But just because they do doesn't anoint them either with penetrating wisdom, per se, or with some kind of moral validity that the private practice lawyer (my client) lacks.

Convergent validity results further suggest the MCC's distinctiveness regarding other measures of commitment, by showing personal, but not moral or structural, commitment, to correlate with the Investment Model Scale (Rusbult et al. in Personal Relationships 5:357 — 387, 1998), defining commitment as a unitary construct pertaining a general long - term orientation and intent to persist in the relationship, and psychological attachment towards the partner.

Later work by Cox, Wexler, Rusbult, and Gaines (1997) added moral and social prescriptive support to this model and found the validity of social prescriptive support along with satisfaction, quality of alternatives and investment size in predicting commitment level.