Sentences with phrase «of moral analysis»

Last week Ryan Anderson called our attention to a new kind of moral analysis developed by Elizabeth Harman of Princeton University and announced at a conference recently held there.

Not exact matches

The author, who teaches at the University of Virginia, provides an informed overview and analysis of the Protestant thinkers who laid a moral and theological foundation for American internationalism.

His work is not necessarily the best moral philosophy now being written — Iris Murdoch, for one, may offer a rival philosophy he would find difficult to answer — but his analysis of our moral paradox is so acute that he, perhaps uniquely among contemporary philosophers, offers the possibility of its solution.

Someone in search of political and moral understanding would, in my opinion, be far better off giving close attention to the most recent of Norman Podhoretz's series of superb analyses of the post ¯ September 11 situation.

It is not clear to me how much of Jody Bottum's moral analysis in» Blood for Blood» and» They Did It» is meant to apply only to sad case of the person just executed and how much is meant to apply to all uses of the death penalty by modern states.

The AAC monograph, for instance, identifies nine «methods and processes, modes of access to understanding and judgment» (ICC 15) that it thinks are essential to know: logical analysis, verbal literacy, numerical understanding, historical awareness, scientific method, informed and responsible moral choice, art appreciation and experience, international and multicultural experiences, and study of one field in depth.

According to the Kerner Commission's analysis, racist white America was similarly bereft of moral resources, such that government, rather than the institutions of civil society that had been so central to the classic civil - rights movement, had to become the principal agent of enforced social change in order to deal with the crisis of an America «moving toward two societies... separate and unequal.»

He sharply distinguished the moral sphere from the cosmological one and justified belief in God based on his analysis of this dimension of experience.

And then I recognized that my academic language of distancing analysis and explanation also served to obfuscate the clear moral dimensions of life and the need to choose between right and wrong, and that on some issues analysis or explanation is itself a form of collusion.

Fr Holloway makes the same point: «Scientific Positivism has no criterion of intellectual and moral values, because these are not subject to experimental analysis and verification.»

Our public life is the better for his many decades of analysis, commentary, and spirited partisanship on behalf of higher religious, moral, and political truths.

Taylor's analysis at times betrays a tendency to equate enchantment with the vertical, hierarchically - ordered world of the Middle Ages and disenchantment with the horizontal world of a modern moral order.

Kimelman, a professor at Brandeis University, concludes in his analysis of the commission's report that «It remains to be seen whether a modern nation state, beseiged on so many fronts, can maintain such a demanding moral standard... If the Israeli effort to admit and rectify errors bears fruit, the lyricism «a light to the nations» may yet become reality.»

Further, the foundational role that physics plays for metaphysics is, in the final analysis, what allows theologians coherently to defend questions of faith and morals.

Some, in recent decades, have turned to an analysis of «civil religion,» which at its best is the awareness that there are universalistic moral sensitivities which have developed out of the American experience.

By claiming, for example, that Arkes has incorrectly interpreted the reasons for the Civil War and the debate over abortion, and has neglected to provide a fuller picture of the Founders and their beliefs, Prof. Smolin is presupposing a moral notion that is logically prior to his analysis: historical texts and events should be interpreted accurately.

It lies at the heart of revisionist arguments about sex, and these can not be assessed apart from an analysis of the significance and adequacy of «the self» as a moral notion.

As I have argued in these pages and elsewhere, the «presumption,» by detaching the just war way of thinking from its proper political context» the right use of sovereign public authority toward the end of tranquillitas ordinis, or peace» tends to invert the structure of classic just war analysis and turn it into a thin casuistry, giving priority consideration to necessarily contingent in bello judgments (proportionality of means, discrimination or noncombatant immunity) over what were always understood to be the prior ad bellum questions («prior» in that, inter alia, we can have a greater degree of moral clarity about them).

I thank Brian C. Anderson for his analysis of recent books on whether markets can be blamed for the moral breakdown of modern society.

Boingboing agreed in its own analysis, concluding «the moral of the story: make sure you know what you're worth before asking for more money.»

To some, for example, his specific analyses of moral acts and habits (the «virtues») remain an invaluable resource for contemporary ethical reflection once these are rescued from their place in the neo-Platonic structure of the Summa.

A moral analysis of ESCR, as it is likely to proceed, therefore requires reckoning not only with the lives of those who suffer from juvenile diabetes or Parkinson's, but also with the specter of women sacrificing their bodily integrity for our sakes.

However much we admire his moral grandeur and accept the way of life he presented, are we in the last analysis merely temporary inhabitants of a world that offers us much that helps and much that hurts, but a world that cares nothing about us one way or the other?

In this context, Gandhi stresses the analogy between Collingwood's reformed metaphysics and Strawson's descriptive metaphysics, two conceptions that, on Gandhi's view, have to be rejected.3 A concept of metaphysics such as that of Whitehead necessitates, on the contrary, «the analysis and critical evaluation of scientific presuppositions in connection with presuppositions of other domains of civilized thought (moral, religious, sociological, aesthetic, etc.), so as to arrive at a satisfactory conception of the most fundamental characteristics of all that we encounter in our experience.

Voters who place cultural or moral concerns above economic self - interest are obviously beset by a form of false consciousness (Frank never uses the term, but his analysis presupposes it).

But in keeping with his overall objective and his guiding metaphor of «diagnosis,» he must not omit from his moral analysis factors that are essential to a full understanding of the crisis.

to be logically impossible.95 If, however, Neville's demand for an ontological analysis can be sustained, Whiteheadians may then be forced to deal with the problems of being and the one and the many (perhaps by wedding Neville's Platonic - Augustinian ontology to process metaphysics, a possibility Neville himself entertains].96 Even so, two of Neville's most crucial claims remain debatable: (1) that indeterminate Being - Itself — without definiteness and beyond description — is supremely deserving of religious devotion, 97 and (2) that the process God — personal, the pervasive source of moral ideals, and the supreme agent in the achievement of these aims — is not.

The author is Archbishop Charles Chaput of Denver, the publisher is Doubleday, and the price should be no obstacle to a book that offers a fresh analysis of what has gone wrong with the Church in America, a convincing case for encouragement, wise counsel on how to engage the public square and, not incidentally, restored confidence in the ability of (some) bishops to teach on faith and morals.

The notion that firms seek to maximize profits is a cornerstone of economic analysis (and a sound one, as most firms do behave this way), but it begs the question what firms ought to do, based on ethical and moral grounds.

In Brunner's The Divine Imperative, and in Reinhold Niebuhr's writings we have been given profound analyses of the moral problem.

Besides specifying the relation of human and moral values to the truth of the human person, John Paul also makes clear that in the final analysis, values are grounded in God Himself.

He analyses various aspects — scientific, scriptural, moral — of the understanding of the divine across the major world religions.

It is now defended on the basis of personal religious experience and on the ground of an analysis of its essence in which the supremacy of its moral character is disclosed.

As I thought I had made reasonably clear in my article, the just war way of thinking about the moral exigencies of world politics begins with a presumption for justice — a presumption that the magistrate has the moral obligation to defend the common good, even at the risk of his own life — and then proceeds to a moral analysis of the various means available for securing justice, which can include proportionate and discriminate armed force.

It is both foundational to and prior to conscience, for conscience combines the advocacy of our visions and passionate convictions with the disinterested analysis necessary for moral decision - making, the latter resulting from education.

Most needed, given an analysis of this kind, is moral tutelage that encourages people to be less greedy (or to reassert traditional gender roles), not radical reform of the economic system itself.

It continues to shake the foundations of all moral systems invented by men, it relativizes all social hierarchies, and, in the final analysis, it shows up the hollowness of all humanly constructed orders.

That one of the ends of marriage is to remedy concupiscence has been the teaching of virtually all moral theologians, right down to the late 20th century, without this teaching being subjected to any true critical analysis.

As the older moral pattern declines in persuasiveness, the only remaining category for the analysis and evaluation of human motives is interest, which by now has replaced both virtue and conscience in our moral vocabulary.

In this respect, even though we might want to affirm that man has some degree of free choice as to whether or not he will abide by such laws, the moral universe would still be a realm of external determination which would, in the final analysis, depend on some nonhuman rationality, if it were assumed to be rational at all.

Still, in the final analysis, our history makes us what we are now, and the conventions of our present social, political, economic and moral world constitute a realm of external determination on our lives.

It is worth repeating that economics, from the time of Plato through to Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill was as deeply concerned with issues of social justice, ethics and morality as with economic analysis itself However, economics students today are taught that Adam Smith was the «father of modern economics» but not that he was also a moral philosopher.

It is ultimately dependent upon an analysis of the self as some sort of self - enclosed independently existing entity and produces precisely the difficulty for ethics that has been erroneously attributed to Whitehead, namely that his ethics would be a private - interest theory, at best.1 But Whitehead clearly repudiates the contributing analysis of the self, which would be «no more original than a stone» (PR 159), and repudiates its consequences for ethics: «The doctrine of minds, as independent substances, leads directly not merely to private worlds of experience, but also to private worlds of morals.

A final issue regarding the analysis of moral standards in a Whiteheadian ethics remains.

This seems to be the statute of limitations in the commentariat on radical moral relativism and its «real world» political offspring — appeasement strategies, moral equivalence theories, «root cause» analyses of terrorism, nonsense about «violence begetting violence,» and self - loathing anti-Americanism of the most vulgar sort.

Carol Tauer, a philosopher at Minnesota's St. Catherine's College, has recently challenged the moral logic of this declaration, as well as of the current pastoral teachings on abortion, in an incisive and thorough analysis of the tradition of probabilism — a theory of practical decision - making that is accepted in Catholic moral teaching.

I dropped analysis of religious organizations years ago for moral reasons.

Accordingly, the common life of a theological school that educates those who lead and nurture communities of Christians in that life must in high moral seriousness focus above all on the nature and demands of that activity and on analysis of the society in which it must be lived.

Similarly, attempts to fight the new Gnosticism with the weapons of logic deployed in service to moral truth are almost certainly doomed to be frustrated, because public life is not, in the final analysis, an exercise in logic alone.

On the polemical front, Luther had a sharp analysis of the sexual life and morals of the clergy in Against the Spiritual Estate of the Pope and the Bishops falsely so - called.