Sentences with phrase «on moral»

Those who feel that their imagined monopoly on moral truth justifies threatening someone online or murdering those with whom they disagree show the risks of such dogmatism.

Former FBI Director James Comey answered New Yorkers» questions on moral leadership, regret and Hillary Clinton's emails last night for the first time since his book was released.

Iain McLean has again entered the fray, arguing that the upcoming consultation on same - sex marriage will make it necessary for minority religions like Quakers, Unitarians and Liberal Jews to defend the right of other denominations and religions to refuse to participate in marriages of same - sex couples, which they object to on moral grounds, in order to protect religious freedom.

The Republican party's position on religious freedom rises from its position on moral issues.

This is not justified, however, on moral grounds, where inequality is a wrong that must be rectified through social justice, but on technocratic and scientific considerations.

Dr Dan Butt's recent presentation, «Reparations and the End of Empire» (see here for podcast), at the Oxford Department of Politics and International Relation's «Engagement of Theory Conference», makes a cogent case for the connection between past and present actions on a moral level — leading to the necessity of reparation payments between states in a post-colonial world.

Given the fact that half the Yes camp is trying, like some dodgy second - hand car dealer, to sell us something they know is a hunk of junk I find it a bit rich of you to get on your moral high horse about the «opportunism» of the No camp.

These are some insights into attitudes on moral and social issues that have been revealed in newly published findings from the European Social Survey (ESS) and shows that significant differences between countries still remain despite closer European integration.

Award - winning author Andrew Solomon, shares his thoughts on the moral imperative of accepting your child for exactly who s / he is and is not.

There are performance character strengths and moral character strengths, and when you look at existing character education programmes in the US, a lot of them focus on the moral: honesty, integrity sharing, inclusiveness.»

Gil Noam on moral maturity in adult life: Gil G. Noam, «Reconceptualizing Maturity: The Search for Deeper Meaning,» in Development and Vulnerability in Close Relationships, ed.

Mass Audubon does not have a position on the moral, social or cultural implications of gaming or gambling, but we do have concerns and suggestions regarding development of large - scale casino complexes.

If you don't have the money to defend, then you must discredit, informing consumers and hoping for their support (counting on their moral obligation).

Rely on your moral support to help you through.

Psychologist Darcia Narvaez has been conducting research on moral cognition, moral development and moral character.

Thus, commitment takes on a moral value: the more committed you are, the more you love your spouse.

Relying on moral character to figure out a good mate made people less vulnerable «to others» gaze and to their validation, precisely because the actors sentiments did not radiate from the interiority of their self.»

The fear of taking a stand on moral issues is acute in Sportianity.

Now a winemaker in his own right, Josh is able to run his winery based on his moral principles — fair compensation for all employees, sustainable farming practices and giving back to the community.

One of the lovely things about the food blogging community is that it has intuitively picked up on the moral rights concept.

(I don't have any hesitation about consuming animals on moral grounds, just strictly nutritionally speaking.)

The Council of Nicaea (canons 8, 9, and 10, and the synodal letter), dealing variously with the Novatianist and the Meletian clergy and with lapsi who should never have been ordained on moral grounds, left open the question as to what constituted valid ordination and what constituted the difference between election (ekloge), recognition or installation (katastasis), imposition of hand (cheirothesia), and ordination proper (cheirotonia).

He believed that, whereas Protestant Liberals were putting the emphasis on historical records and on the moral teaching of Jesus, Catholic Modernism was calling for changes of such a radical nature that it might be necessary for Catholicism to die, in order that it might rise again in a grander form, more appropriate to the age.

Now, the former long for the «liturgical papacy» of Benedict XVI, and the latter are baffled by Francis» uncompromising stance on moral issues.

The rapidly growing group, on moral and spiritual grounds, claimed exclusive loyalty to Christ and opted when confronted with loyalty to the Emperor for the Heavenly king they worshiped.

I guess where we would part company is in those cases where you would perhaps make the pope culpable for not making changes on moral issues the church has long held.

Combined with the common acceptance of belief in God or the gods was a strong stress on moral teaching.

They are effects inscribed on the material world (miracles), on the body, on the moral life (the results conversion), on psychology, on sociology.

He will continue to host Focus on the Family's radio program, write a monthly newsletter and speak out on moral issues, Daly told Eric Gorski of the AP.

They didn't believe in anything very much, Brock explains; they were short on moral concern and didn't talk about politics in their free time.

It centered only on moral results.

Certainly the background of the patriarchal age is reflected — frictions between tribes; a level of sexual morality upon which for a number of reasons we may not sit in judgment; and a consistent representation of Jacob who rebukes his sons not on moral but on utilitarian - prudential grounds (34:30).

By insisting on the moral value of increasing natural and social complexity, he overlooks a historical trend which has been identified by many, most notably Reinhold Niebuhr: the more organized and highly structured the group or state, the greater is its hypocrisy and abuse» of power.

But alas this position was not taken on moral grounds.

Parents want their children to hold onto the family's values and traditions, but how do you pass on a moral legacy when the members of your group leave after a couple of decades and when the organization you lead breaks up every generation?

Man can not be the ultimate authority on moral matters.

In other passages he speaks of «inheriting» the kingdom of God, but still with an emphasis on its moral requirements that must be met (I Cor.

Of course, people on the left can be morally arrogant, but it would have helped if he had offered some specific evidence rather than simply the fact that those writers had argued on moral terms for a stronger presumption against war or a greater redistributive role for the state.

The hope for the future lies in the success of such approaches based on moral values.

Clearly it does not mean «have no stand on moral issues» or «correct people who are going astray,» because the church's founder did these things constantly.

The need for love not contingent on moral excellence.

(«There would have to be a paper on the moral issues raised by chocolate; the more she thought of it, the richer became the philosophical dimensions of chocolate.»)

I could see, as the students had dinner and held discussions on moral and spiritual issues, that that soft spot and that presence went a long way toward strengthening the program.

Laws forbidding suicide assistance are based on the moral conviction that all killing of innocent life is wrong.

Belief in immortality is criticized on moral grounds as self - aggrandizing, on psychological grounds as self - deceiving, and on philosophical grounds as dualistic.

Given the diversity of human character, punishment always totters on a moral slope so slippery that it is impossible to determine with any precision where it crosses the line from remedial to vitiating.

There are books on moral philosophy and books on biblical theology.

Often presented as a crucial moment in the history of epistemology, nominalism also had a tremendous influence on moral theology.

It gave Catholics the right to dissent from hierarchical church teaching on a moral matter, if they could achieve «solid probability,» a technical term.

At the same time, it must be based on the moral agency and autonomy of women, the primary guardians of life for the species.