Sentences with phrase «of moral»

The book is strengthened by its sympathetic reading of the history of moral education, and the demonstration of why so many good intentions have gone awry.

As King was absolutely convinced that the forces of ill throughout our country were more of a moral issue than political, Barber expounds on this.

Far from relegating war to the twilight of our moral and political imagination (where war would necessarily assume a logic of its own) just war theory seeks to domesticate war by relating it to politics.»

Any lapses are of a moral and spiritual kind.

To suggest otherwise is to make something of a moral and spiritual judgment.

I only pointed out that we all have some form of moral code that we rely upon or depend upon in some way.

This scandal serves as a confirmation of something many Hollywood critics have long believed: that Tinsel Town is a sewer of moral degradation and corruption, in which the innocent are abused and then silenced and discarded.

May they continue to be beacons of light in an often dark scene of moral and spiritual confusion in modern Britain.

$ 19.95 Arthur Cohen has characterized it as «beyond the deliberations of reason, beyond the discernments of moral judgments, beyond meaning itself,» and....

The study of history is arid and incomplete unless it is understood as a work about (and by) individual human beings — and, moreover, a story whose substance and manner of telling are matters of moral significance.

If I fail to be scandalized by this state of affairs, then I run the risk of moral numbness.

Until its moral capital had completely vanished, it traded on a sense of moral outrage at the injustices of the world, and it proposed a revolution to create a better one.

That being said, Religion is a needed item to keep and maintain even the slimest of moral values, that draws the line between right and wrong.

Should I tell them that what draws me to the keyboard each morning is not a sense of moral responsibility but an uncontrollable drive to hunt down my scattered thoughts and tack them down with words?

The decline of a moral conscience grounded in absolute values is still our problem, and left untreated, it can lead to the self - destruction of the European conscience, which we must begin to consider as a real danger — above and beyond the decline predicted by Spengler.

Please tell me your source of moral authority and exactly why it is not subjective or subject to change if I were to disagree.

Reason can lead to the discovery of moral universals and norms, and as such, reason and morality should not be separated in our processes of law and decision - making.

CNN: My Take: Why the abortion issue won't go away After recently addressing a large secular assembly on issues of moral controversy, I turned and faced a woman who urgently wanted to ask me a question: «Why won't the abortion issue just go away?»

• The main level of concentration will be personal, since the subject of moral and metaphysical experience is the human person himself.

Yet the protest is ultimately one against any notion of a moral order, that there is an established way of being which demands a change in my behaviour, and that without such a change I am somehow less than I should be, that I ambecoming less than what I am made to be.

«The current BSA proposal constructively addresses a number of important issues that have been part of the ongoing dialogue including consistent standards for all BSA partners, recognition that Scouting exists to serve and benefit youth rather than Scout leaders, a single standard of moral purity for youth in the program, and a renewed emphasis for Scouts to honor their duty to God,» this week's Mormon statement continued.

How we discharge the duties of citizenship — whether by accepting the creeping authoritarianism of the last two decades, or by raising our voices on behalf of the laws and democratic norms of our country — is a question of moral conscience, suitable for confession, and demanding repentance if we err.

It would — by design — shut off the springs of moral and political reform, right at the source.

I'm not sure that something like this could have been heard above the din that came from a failed financial model, the loss of an admittedly cool place to worship, and the general pushback against any sort of moral accountability.

The idea seems to be that Millennials are so cynically resistant to truth claims and so hostile towards claims of moral perfection that somehow the arresting power of religious or even purely artistic beauty might be the principle means to, as it were, lower their guard, and enable them to glimpse something of the workings of the creator.

That even Paul's writings have been turned into a source of moral laws shows how powerful is the human desire for rules.

It sets awry our ideas of moral agency.

She rightly points out that «the work of Servais - Theodore Pinckaers might stand as a bridge uniting the efforts of younger Thomists and Balthasarians because of its accent on the theo - dramatic nature of moral life,» but she also at times indulges in such unhelpful labels as «Baroque Thomism» and «nuptial mysticism.»

After recently addressing a large secular assembly on issues of moral controversy, I turned and faced a woman who urgently wanted to ask me a question: «Why won't the abortion issue just go away?»

In traditional theism nature has no intrinsic value, so the fact that it exists merely for God's purposes and is then destroyed is of no moral consequence.

Since creation is a continuum, a dilution of religious belief has led to a lowering of moral standards, which has in turn necessarily resulted in lower standards in business ethics.

The concept of moral responsibility, which therapy would seek to banish or marginalize, turns out to be essential and inescapable.

God is the source of life, of novelty, of freedom, of moral responsibility.

He repeatedly affirms the need to address issues of personal morality, and he was impressed by the gang members» admission of the moral and spiritual factors underlying the ghetto's ills.

Many of the community's conservative Christians saw the ordinance as a sign of moral laxity, and letters poured in to the local newspaper denouncing homosexuality on biblical grounds.

Victor said: «Lynn, that is a common view, but I opt out of the moral idealism that says that Christians should be (or even MUST be) this or that.

So anger has some happy aspects: it is, ideally, a natural signal that somebody's behavior needs to be adjusted; it is a sign of proper moral concerns and of a proper perception of moral truths.

«The claim that God is in fact the basis of moral obligations must be distinguished from the claim that one can not believe in moral obligations without belief in God.»

As statistics show the number of moral morons is shrinking and more people are getting the education they so desparately needed.

Budziszewski argues that «a good deal» of the moral knowledge we can know with certainty is encapsulated on both tablets of the Ten Commandments.

A politics of reason gave way to a politics of emotion and flirted with the politics of irrationality; the claims of moral reason were displaced by moralism; the notion that all men and women were called to live lives of responsibility was displaced by the notion that some people were, by reason of birth, victims; patriotism became suspect, to be replaced by a vague internationalism; democratic persuasion was displaced by judicial activism.

If just - war theory is in poor repute today it is because it has been pressed into service to justify war rather than to prevent or restrain it; rather than being used to advance the cause of peace or justice, the theory has often provided a quickly accessible patina of moral justifiability to disguise aggression and expansionist policy.

It can not be too strongly insisted that a world which is to be a moral order must be a physical order characterized by law or regularity... The theist is only concerned to invoke the fact that the law - abidingness... is an essential condition of the world being a theatre of moral life.

If it should be true, as Carol Gilligan has argued, that men are drawn toward a morality of abstract justice and women toward a morality of connected webs of caring, and that neither of these taken by itself constitutes the whole of the moral realm, then mother and father together — but in different ways — may inculcate and transmit moral value and commitment.

Buber's argument was based on the promptings of moral conscience, but he was adamant that there is no real distinction between morality and true religiosity in his understanding of Judaism.

Every bit as important as that, however, is displaying in everyday life the truth and reality of moral obligations themselves.

They say at the end: «More generally, they call into question whether religion is vital for moral development, supporting the idea that the secularization of moral discourse will not reduce human kindness — in fact, it will do just the opposite.»

The people who think that the Bible is the be-all and end - all of moral reasoning would insist that they are.

Following up his self - described «phenomenology of moral obligations,» Evans sets out to explain it.

If it occurs to Molly that on Monday it was she who laid $ 100 on top of the cash machine in Wheeling and then drove 20 miles down the road before remembering what she'd done, her anger at Mort is likely to dissolve in a vision of moral equality.