Sentences with phrase «much contemporary moral»

While I sought to avoid the ultra-dull prose style in which so much contemporary moral philosophy is written, the quasi-mathematical coolness of the book's tone is an inherent feature of my chosen genre of analytic political theory.

Johnson graphically illustrates the moral schizophrenia of much contemporary moral and religious - ethical thought, including that of the U.S. Catholic bishops and other official religious bodies.

Not exact matches

Posner is distressed that so much of contemporary legal scholarship elaborates or relies upon diverse moral theories that attempt, in highly abstract terms, to make normative claims about law.

And if anyone is afraid that he is in for some kind of esoteric rigmarole, may I try to alleviate his fears by remarking that the lecturers are all children of the twentieth century as much as they are professing Christians, alive to the astounding advances of contemporary science and technology, alive also to the deep — seated moral and cultural skepticism which has developed side by side with an increasing moral passion and sensitivity.

The erosion of common moral and religious understandings is not identical with increasing moral and social corruption, though there is much evidence of the latter in contemporary America.

The lack of the authenticating thread for genuine natural law - the nonnegotiable insistence that there are some universally valid precepts derivable by nature and unable not to be known (however much we are tempted to overlook them or pretend we do not know them)» is most clearly evident in the sections of each chapter where Porter sketches what contemporary moral theology can discover from her medieval labors.

But he is as much an ascetic as Awo; and like Awo too, he towers above his contemporaries with sheer moral authority, powered by unchallenged integrity.