Sentences with phrase «moral views»

The key question for us, therefore, is whether politics and economics are autonomous, or whether they should have a basis in a religious or moral view of the world.

Something many of you have probably never picked up to actually read — or read and than put it down as soon as you came across something to confronted your own moral views.

If you think about it, peoples moral views come from a variety of places.

Further, in an apropo analogy, Rienzi looks to for - profit companies like Whole Foods that clearly take moral views on economic philosophy or the environment, and explains the illogic of allowing corporations to take such views while maintaining that a company could not take a similar, religious - based position.

Such a view of law would permit for - profit corporations to have the moral culpability of criminal convictions, take moral views on a slew of ethical concerns, and let corporations exercise other constitutional guarantees as persons while inexplicably siphoning off only for - profit corporations from religious protection.

(Under the providentialist reading, government can acknowledge a dependence on the Creator, and citizens and legislators may act on their religiously informed moral views in making public policy.)

Actually, most atheists have the SAME moral views that our laws support as anyone else.

«1 Hartshorne, of course, claims that the Whiteheadian view of the self is the only fully moral view since it alone enables complete obedience to the Great Commandment to love one's neighbor as oneself.

We all promote the same essential moral view of sexuality: Sexual intercourse is moral only between a man and a woman within marriage and only when the spouses respect the procreative end of the marital act.

If an interviewer harbors traditional moral views on homosexuality, his firm could be in violation of the rule established by the Association of Law Schools.

If morality as proclaimed by various religions is denied a place at the policy table, then our nation will only be guided by those with a very cramped and limited moral view — which would have been a disaster for abolition and civil rights way back then — and would be no less a disaster today.

But there are those who, in the name of spirituality, reimage the gospel to make it fit a particular moral view of earthly living.

Holmes had definite moral views, but his sensibilities about war required magnanimity toward enemies, which included admiration for their bravery, the purity of their motives, and their willingness to sacrifice themselves for a cause.

Today's cultural elites promote a nonjudgmental ethos that often makes ordinary people embarrassed to express strong moral views.

Pacifists do not ask for a special exemption because of their high moral views or delicate sensibilities; they refuse to participate in war because it is immoral.

Where the problem arises is when the accusation against Christians of» not following the Golden Rule» is made, when in reality they simply hold a difffernet moral view.

And, they say, the bedrock ethical principle is that there must be no attempt to restrict scientific inquiry «solely because there are divergent moral views».

When another college professor, Andrew Hoffman of the University of Michigan, suggested that environmentalists stop challenging people's moral views directly and that they downplay tales of environmental catastrophe, Brulle said Hoffman was «looking for a third way out besides conflict.

The authors describe how a / b induces emotional anaesthesia against frightening and difficult emotions, such as intense fear, pain, grief and anger, and extend its perverted moral view to include ever larger domains of the insider's life.

We need open, vigorous debate that captures the many, often contradictory, moral views of Americans.

Mary Warnock was asked to form a committee with a majority of non-scientists that would represent a breadth of religious and moral views on IVF.

They have no basis on which to found a moral view of the world, hence they fall to base desires and degenerate behaviors.

You said, «They are rising up now, however, because they have been forced to compromise their moral views and religious beliefs for years to accomodate non-believers.

They are rising up now, however, because they have been forced to compromise their moral views and religious beliefs for years to accomodate non-believers.

This is not surprising in itself, of course; what Roof and McKinney regard as significant is the fact that religious communities are increasingly distinguished not by theological beliefs but by «contrasting ethical styles and moral views.»

Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at the National Centre for Social Research who produced a report into the findings, was quoted by The Times as saying: «It suggests people are taking their moral views from elsewhere.»

Personally I see more value in appealing to human decency and modern culture than to attempting to make the moral views of iron age civilizations entrenched in sexism, racial bigotry, and a host of other very morally questionable beliefs somehow fit our modern society.

I frankly think he was very brave to adhere to his religious and moral views.

Richard Cardinal Cushing, the Roman Catholic Archbishop of Boston, has already proclaimed in eloquent language: «Catholics do not need the support of civil law to be faithful to their own religious convictions and they do not seek to impose by law their moral views on other members of society.»

How does «peer pressure» shape a person's moral views?

In amoral, non-organized America, any person practicing (and not just espousing) a moral view stands out like a beacon, and willingly or not becomes an example to others.

He suggests that my moral views oppress gays and lesbians.

But in a pluralistic democracy, we can't impose our moral views on other people.»

I should have asked the dean why citizens should have to withhold their moral views on abortion but not on other issues where he did not hesitate to advance religiously grounded moral viewpoints — the Vietnam War, capital punishment, civil rights, and relief of poverty.

That moral view places emphasis on hard work and effort and gives respect to those who perform it, regardless of how much money is directly earned.

Thus there are reasons for thinking that the shift in attitudes toward the right to die is to some extent attributable not to a direct change in moral views but to a change in people's tolerance for others» moral views or moral situations.

Another reason for the shift in attitudes is an American increase in tolerance for the moral views of other persons.

There have been media reports of parents whose application to foster or adopt has been refused because of their moral views.

First, it should be recognized that those who would forbid freedom of choice are taking a political view consistent with their moral view that abortion is murder.

It is fundamental to a free society that private citizens must be able to form groups to espouse their moral views and choose leaders accordingly.

I don't much care for the Bishop's manners; and I certainly don't share his moral views; but I think it is entirely natural and reasonable for someone who strongly believes something to invite others to believe it.

William, the Church does not get to impose its religious / moral views on its employees.

Such a God, we might add, is probably one of the major causes of modern atheism which has been highly sensitive to the «moral view of the universe,» with its implied themes of order and punishment.14

I assumed that she knew my moral views, which I have enough trouble imposing on myself, let alone anyone else.

Sex education of any type only has to happen in schools because there are so many parents who are not fulfilling their own responsibility... so it seems to me, that it might be more useful to rant and / or advocate that more parents learn how to teach their children appropriately about sex (and their moral views about it) than to accuse teachers of encouraging children to have sex.

However, the view that government is an outgrowth of society (including cultural, religious, and moral views) is echoed by Edmund Burke (the theorist behind conservatism).

And not because they have any superior wisdom or the moral high ground — everybody has moral views — but they can give a faith perspective and bring that to bear on their work.