Though it brilliantly analyzes the effect of the «abuse excuse» upon our legal system, it ultimately undermines the
basis of moral judgment.
With the victims of lung cancer we have the good sense to respond at the point of human suffering rather than the
point of moral judgment.
Scripture interrogates Christians» lives; they are «formed in the
kinds of moral judgment necessary for them to live faithfully as friends of God.»
The example was meant to bring out even more sharply Immanuel Kant's point that a unanimity of feeling simply can not supply the
ground of a moral judgment.
Decisional bias (false alarm rate) when judging the guilt / innocence of a suspect is offered as an implicit
measure of moral judgment.
Its greatness is reflected in its rich and full realization of the complicated nature of human behavior and of the difficulty
of moral judgment for living mortals.
To read it simply, or primarily, as a source
of moral judgment on sexual matters is to misunderstand it fundamentally.
Yet we do not go to cancer wards preaching to the victims of lung cancer about their sinful lifestyles... Could it be that the
weight of our moral judgments is clouded by the fact that a lot of conservatives smoke (smoking can even cause harm to nonsmokers who are unwilling breathers of the cancer - causing substance)?
$ 19.95 Arthur Cohen has characterized it as «beyond the deliberations of reason, beyond the
discernments of moral judgments, beyond meaning itself,» and....
The ideological boxes labeled liberal, conservative, neoconservative, etc. undergo a salutary rearranging by this company of diverse thinkers united by a devotion to freedom, rights, responsibility, virtue, and a market economy within the
framework of moral judgment.
Americans need to hear, many want to hear, a considered
word of moral judgment and guidance from the churches.
In affirming the traditional teaching, and rejecting the proportionalist
methodology of moral judgment, Professor Arkes and I stand with the Pope.
Certainly he will be forced to renounce every moral imperative with a transcendent ground, and this means that he must forswear the possibility of an absolute moral law, and at best look upon all
forms of moral judgment as penultimate ways which must inevitably act as barriers to the full realization of energy and life.
When Jesus said, «Judge not,» he was calling for an
end of all moral judgment, a judgment that must inevitably arise from a condition of guilt.
It's designed to avoid any
hint of moral judgment, which protects the bishops from being criticized as judgmental.
It should be emphasized that such a brief description hardly does justice to the nuanced efforts to weigh various
traditions of moral judgment and to apply person - centered principles to balanced decision - making.
«The previous administration threatened to take that pride away from you, by their corrupt acts and
lack of moral judgment.»
This was the beginning of what he calls his dual - process
theory of moral judgment, in which instinct and reason collide in a battle for supremacy.
«In
situations of moral judgment like those in the study, there is an inability to identify the real cause of their negative emotional state, attributing it to external causes, and not to the medical condition.»
The crux of the matter, Greene decided, lay not in the
logic of moral judgments but in the role our emotions play in forming them.
He took the trolley problem as his starting point, then invented questions designed to place volunteers on a
spectrum of moral judgment.
There's a lot of talk out there labeling carbs as either «good» or «bad,» but I prefer to keep that kind
of moral judgment out of my relationship with food.
Especially in the corporate world, clients may not take kindly to a lawyer's attempts to engage them on
questions of moral judgment, especially when the questions are grounded in a religious perspective.
When we move to the
level of a moral judgment, we move away from statements of merely personal taste and private belief; we speak of the things that are more generally or universally right or wrong, just or unjust, for others as well as ourselves.
But this does not mean that there is no place for the
kind of moral judgment that is relevant to mature experience and that makes men uneasy, more fully aware of the consequences of their decisions, more sensitive to the dark side of their culture.
Libertarian hysteria to the contrary notwithstanding, acting on the
basis of moral judgment is neither unconstitutional nor un-American.
Though our moral philosophers have differed in many details, especially in regard to the
sources of moral judgment, they have agreed amazingly in regard to what men ought to do.
As long as human beings are
capable of moral judgment we will be sorting through what people, including Pius XII, could have done and should have done in a time when the lights of decency were largely extinguished.