Sentences with phrase «of moral principle»

The second half of this moral principle is openness to the real aspect of transcendence.

And (here I repeat myself) on what ground of moral principle?

All of which is really to say that evil magic is domination of the natural world through science and technology loosed from any sense of moral principle — the culture of death.

By contrast, a child's right to protection from a parent's brutality is a matter of both moral principle and law which the courts will enforce.

Along the same lines, Sapontzis argues that animals» intentional and sincere, kind and courageous actions are moral actions, for they accord with accepted moral norms, and we do not require demonstrations of moral principle in everyday human moral practice (AAMB 51 - 2).

On the Protestant side, therefore, matters of moral principle were discussed differently.

To his credit, Ford's assertion here has the whiff of moral principle about it.

A polemicist might well have salty things to say about this abdication of moral principles that Christians have held since the earliest days of the faith, but in Wilcox's mild and irenic diction the mainline churches are simply «accommodationist,» espousing what he calls a «Golden Rule Christianity» that honors tolerance, kindness, and social justice as paramount virtues.

People with this orientation interpreted the persecution of Jews as a violation of moral principles, and the main goal of their rescue behavior was to reaffirm and act on these principles.

The cosmopolitan envisions the direct application of moral principles on a global scale, and regards the nation - state as an impediment to human rights and global justice.

On the other hand, being an atheist, she naturally espouses amoral behavior; a lack of moral principles — only those that are self - imposed and self - executed, and which are subject to change at a whim.

I can still have my own set of moral principles even if I do nt identify with a particular set of faiths and principles.

Waugh understood that this search was all about the actual, raw fact of the Crucifixion really happening: the Christian faith is not a set of moral principles, or a myth and some lovely traditions, but the truth, rooted in history.

But so long as we are not in this state of perfection we have to live by the rational elaboration of moral principles, and by specific moral and legal rules: «Thou shalt not kill.»

But as men became more and more aware of moral principles and as their thinking was «rationalized», the way in which the sacred was understood, the way in which men came to interpret the more - than - human, was in terms of love and of «persuasion» (as Whitehead put it), although it never lost the awesome quality which evoked from them worship and adoration.

I'm a student at a Christian college, and it saddens me to think that you would distrust my collaborative ability based on the fact that I attend a school that has a specific set of moral principles.

For those who look to eternal verities for directly applicable political solutions, he observes: «The deposit of wisdom in the Bible and in the classic books does not contain a systematic and comprehensive statement of moral principles from which it is possible to deduce with clarity and certainty specific answers to concrete questions.»

We all agree in the obligation of the moral principles of Jesus and nowhere will they be found delivered in greater purity than in His discourses.

The third level in the hierarchy of moral principles is also the last.

He made the case that if we base our objections to this on our own conscience rights, we may absolutize the privatization of moral principles, such that the public square is no longer responsible to any standard of right and wrong.

While a process - based ontology may avoid prescribing an immutable set of moral principles, we may yet discern — within its existential uncertainties and contingencies — a universal normative principle that reflects the reciprocal causal unity and «novel togetherness» of the many becoming one.

Over time we've managed to compile an impressive canon of moral principles by literally following our guts: that which makes us nauseated, or want to reel away in gibbering horror, must have something ethically wrong with it, and vice versa.

Most religions locate the source of these moral principles in god.

I am convinced that a vivid consciousness of the primary importance of moral principles for the betterment and ennoblement of life does not need the idea of a law - giver, especially a law - giver who works on the basis of reward and punishment.»

The obvious breach of moral principles and the scientific method in ClimateGate strongly motivates me and others to critically examine the science and / or oppose the policies being advocated by those warning over catastrophic anthropogenic climate change.

Thus, for example, the judge must decide cases on the basis of those moral principles that «figure -LSB--RSB- in the soundest theory of law that can be provided as a justification for the explicit substantive and institutional rules of the jurisdiction in question» (Dworkin 1977, 66).

(used with a singular or plural verb) a system of moral principles: the ethics of a culture.

Not exact matches

And interesting for the range of values and moral principles that Cook brings to bear on his topic.

«The wariness of authority reflected the most fundamental of all Einstein's moral principles: Freedom and individualism are necessary for creativity and imagination to flourish.»

These persons one is tempted to see as representatives of Kohlberg's post-conventional or principled level of moral understanding and action.

«It is through the humanities principally,» says Coughlin, president of Gonzaga University from 1974 to 1996, «that the culture, values, and moral principles of the Judeo - Christian tradition are kept alive in Western society.

When the Oliners affirm that the language of care — of compassion, hospitality, and helpfulness — is overwhelmingly employed to express their motives, they clearly imply that face - to - face compassion is a far more salient motive for sacrificial and heroic moral altruism than abstract principles of equity and justice.

People of all faiths do or do not do illegal things based on their value systems, their needs, and their basic moral principles.

We all are creatures of mingled good and evil; and, good institutions neglected and ancient moral principles ignored, the evil in us tends to predominate.

The FIRST PRINCIPLES SEMINAR: MORAL AND POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY IN THE NATURAL LAW TRADITION is an intensive two - week program for advanced undergraduate and graduate students under the direction of Thomas D'Andrea (University of Cambridge) and Christopher Tollefsen (University of South Carolina), with guest lecturers Hadley Arkes (Amherst College), Robert George (Princeton University) and Daniel Robinson (Oxford University).

The basic goods are supplemented by moral principles, sometimes called «modes of responsibility.»

Aware that the Church «can not and should not intervene on every scientific innovation,» the pope charged the congregation with «reiterating the great values at stake, and providing the faithful, and all men and women of good will, with ethical and moral principles and guidelines for these new and important questions.»

The author, professor of systematic theology at St. John's Seminary in Brighton, Massachusetts, does a splendid job of introducing the series, addressing such topics as natural law, principles of human action, the determination of the moral good, and the connection between virtues, gifts of the Holy Spirit, and the Beatitudes.

He spoke twice about «the moral force of non-violence,» referred repeatedly to self - determination and insisted that «our support for these principles is not a secondary interest.»

Although the machines involved are extraordinarily dangerous, the moral principle governing their use is perfectly ordinary: It is the familiar one that human beings should engage in an activity that poses dangers to others only if, in the totality of the circumstances, doing so is reasonable» i.e., if the good to be achieved, taking account of the probability of success, is proportionate to the possible ill effects.

Nat privileged me by asking me to introduce him at that event, where I lauded him as «a superb writer and first - class public intellectual,... a man of consistent, steadfast principle; a moral purist in an age of hand - wringing accommodationists.»

Wary of the dangers that radical subjectivism and moral fanaticism pose for social solidarity and cultural coexistence, he urges us to practice humility, civility, and humor in our political dealings while holding fast to core principles such as individual freedom and human rights.

As someone in his late 40s (I literally ride the line between being a baby boomer and the oldest of the Gen - X crowd), I can appreciate much of what is said in the article, except that instead of the church being old - fashioned, I tend to see it as the church adhering to established sound doctrine and moral principles.

I am assuming that we can appropriate this principle from Kant's moral theory without assuming the rest of it as true, including his restricted view of what a person is.

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.

We look to it to assert a principled conservatism that may have various expressions on prudential questions, and one of those principles ought to be the moral order as conservatism's founding fathers (Russell Kirk, for example) understood conservatism.

You can theorize all day long that we have other rules and laws... but for my moral guide in this life... Jesus principle of love will do just fine.

If, however, it is proposed not as a preference but as a principle, it gravely distorts moral deliberation about the use of force in the service of justice.

If the church focused on teaching people to be moral by upholding bible principles instead of their own traditions, they wouldn't have to be concerned.

The pulpit is the place for the declaration of the Word of God and not the place for teaching Christian theology or the principles of Christian morality, although it is obvious that the gospel of Christ has theological implications and involves moral consequences.