Sentences with phrase «moral value»

And it is undoubtedly true that maintaining concepts of absolute moral value, of objective right and wrong is the only intelligible basis upon which you can protect and promote the flourishing of every member of the human community.

By insisting on the moral value of increasing natural and social complexity, he overlooks a historical trend which has been identified by many, most notably Reinhold Niebuhr: the more organized and highly structured the group or state, the greater is its hypocrisy and abuse» of power.

It will be up to them to recognize any wisdom or moral value in what I say.

As Christians, we believe that human beings are made in the image of God, and therefore have an inherent moral value, or «dignity», which forms the foundation of all our rights.

I find Whitehead's discussion of value, including moral value, eminently satisfying.

To believe we are nothing more than finite state machines, automatons, is to accept that there are no moral absolutes and therefore raping a child, stealing, murdering have NO absolute MORAL value.

(1) The moral value or rightness of action consists in its furtherance of an ultimate end or goal, «the good.»

In contrast, «animal rights» is an ideology that explicitly equates the moral value of animals with that of human beings.

Treat religious subject matter, whether biblical, historical or contemporary, - with accuracy, pertinence and moral value.

At the heart of this reconstitution of theology and moral philosophy was an attempt to relocate the source of moral value and significance.

Many religious people have more refined version of their beliefs because of their moral value they may have.

The basic point, about the moral value and superior practical benefit of economic liberty seems inescapable.

Thus the Hindu nationalist is someone who, through fostering the myth of internal and external threat to national stability and security, places maximum moral value on affirming that India's core consists of the eternal Hindu tenets (loyalty) and defending these with the conviction and zeal of patriotic duty to the country (attachment).

In this essay, then, I shall undertake to provide something of an introduction to this larger work and, at the same time, to stimulate further discussion of the theological foundations of moral value.

In fact, it is precisely in relation to these surroundings that they find the resources for shaping moral value in ways that are genuinely human.

The relativist can be appreciated for the concern he expresses for the «autonomy» of the individual and the requirement that moral value be subjectively meaningful to the person.

An image concerning sexual morality is not just about the moral value of chastity in itself.

Rabbi Levy offers his own take on the moral value of scripture.

«Indeed, the reality of the human being for the entire span of life, both before and after birth, does not allow us to posit either a change in nature or a gradation in moral value, since it possesses full anthropological and ethical status.

For example, as Cummings rightly notes (pp. 134 - 5) you do not have to intend to give scandal to give it, and Cummings refers at one point (p. 336) to «an exaggeration of the role of the intention of the acting subject in determining the moral value of the act».

Free yourself from tesemanmade gods and realize tha moral value of ME were instilled in your religion.

Things are just things, they just happen, they have no moral value as there is no real grounding of intentionality, purpose, or objectivity for things that happen in this universe.

If he could not say it's right, truth and moral value exists apart from god.

The positive moral value that emerged from this conviction was a sense of joyous confidence, that transformed the little community from a mood of passive waiting to urgency in witness, fidelity in mutual service, and at least relative steadfastness in the Christian virtues.

In a world where efficiency is viewed as an almost moral value and filtered snapshots of our friends» live play out daily on Instagram, the book a reminder about the importance of being present for the moments that matter the most.

Presently we are moving beyond any religious expression so far known to the human into a meta - religious age, that seems to be a new comprehensive context for all religions... The natural world itself is the primary economic reality, the primary educator, the primary governance, the primary technologist, the primary healer, the primary presence of the sacred, the primary moral value... The primary sacred community is the earth community.

God was gone, utterly, and so was all spirit and meaning and moral value.

When the highest moral value of a culture is unity at the expense of principle, there is no real unity and we can wonder if principles ever existed in the first place.

Its «moral value» is not automatic, but depends on conformity to the moral law to which it, like every other form of human behavior, must be subject.»

Babies — even those with dire prospects — are precious human beings whose lives have intrinsic dignity and inherent moral value beyond that of any nonhuman.

But Man, because he is capable of reflection and of planning his own actions, does not blindly respond to these laws like an animal: he assimilates and transforms them, investing them with a meaning and an intelligible moral value.

For everyone out there that considers the Bible of no moral value, and us the products of a random universe, there is no basis for calling anything «good» or «evil.»

He maintains that this is probably so because the system imparts moral value to political involvement in the class struggle.

We all accept certain societal moral value judgments.

The sticking point in all of this is that when it comes to contested issues of moral value, one side wins and the other loses.

The proof that the growing co-extension of our soul and the world, through the consciousness of our relationship with all things, is not simply a matter of logic or idealisation, but is part of an organic process, the natural outcome of the impulse which caused the germination of life and the growth of the brain — the proof is that it expresses itself in a specific evolution of the moral value of our actions (that is to say, by the modification of what is most living within us).

In Western thought there has been a strong tendency to take value to mean either moral value or else mere physical pleasure.

It also doesn't mean I have to agree with their moral value judgements.

As is observed by J. Baird Callicott, a contemporary environmental philosopher and defender of Leopold, what is noteworthy about this principle «is that the good of the biotic community is the ultimate measure of the moral value, the rightness or wrongness, of actions» (AL 318).

Taking Leopold's land ethic as paradigmatic for environmental ethics as such, Callicott insists that «environmental ethics locates ultimate value in the «biotic community» and assigns differential moral value to the constitutive individuals relative to that standard» (AL 337).

An act has positive moral value when it is based upon the whole - hearted assent of the person to it, that is, when there is a congruent relation between the act and the total personality structure of the one who acts.

Similarly aesthetic experiences have truth - value and moral value and moral values involve truth and beauty.

Positive moral value is taken in most religions as an expression of the will of God.

Many of its adherents refuse to acknowledge the sanctity and equality of human life, instead taking the so - called «quality of life» approach, which determines the moral value of each organism — whether human, animal, or plant — by measuring its individual cognitive capacities.

Obviously judgments of moral value will differ greatly, depending upon the training and basic characteristics of different persons.

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

He may lie in the future, but that does not make his call to truth of any lesser moral value.

Rather, prayer was the immediate response of man to God's approach, involving inward communion and ethical devotion, and was itself the fountainhead of whatever moral value any public ceremony might possess.

Firstly, we understand our actions to have absolute moral value, above and beyond their practical usefulness, and irrespective of whether we get found out!

The presentation of each viewpoint may have varying degrees of bias, but the fact that each viewpoint is presented uncritically leaves it without any intrinsic moral value beyond the impact it has on the emotions of the student.