Sentences with phrase «own moral purpose»

«This is nothing compared to...» Moral justification: You present the act as socially worthy or having a moral purpose.

In fact, it gave the whole business of luxury brands an almost moral purpose.

Everything has a «natural end» and moral purpose.

It doesn't and didn't deserve damnation, at least not from anyone not named God, and especially not from remarkably un-peaceful «peace» advocates who seem to find their moral purpose in life by clinging ever more tightly to deluded notions of «empire» the further we get from their hoary 1890s Leninist (See Songbook # 5) provenance.

Tony Judt put it best in his book Post War: «If Europe's past is to continue to furnish Europe's present with admonitory meaning, and with moral purpose» then it will have to be taught afresh with each passing generation.»

If by God is meant a Being, supremely conscious, all - knowing, all - powerful, completely self - sufficient, who determines all things by divine moral purpose, the answer is again No.

In order to recapture the robust sense of moral purpose that once characterized the Christian way, we must discard contemporary notions about self - fulfillment.

To capture a robust sense of moral purpose, contemporary notions about self - fulfillment must be discarded along with romantic notions about inherent goodness.

Economic activity has an inherently moral purpose: to provide the material undergirding for our common life by allocating scarce capital in ways that will promote economic growth.

In a war that has no clear moral purpose, where it is difficult to distinguish friend from foe or soldier from civilian and where it is forbidden by one's superiors either to win or to lose — such a war impels even fairly decent people to commit atrocities.

Rather, it focuses on two other things: the state of mind of the one who authorizes the war and those who fight under that authorization, and the fundamental moral purpose for all uses of force — to achieve the peace that comes only with a justly ordered community.

First, it reflected a judgment about modern warfare as inherently grossly destructive, so much so that it could never be conducted morally or be an instrument of moral purpose.

Some have a moral purpose (as the parting of the sea for the deliverance of the Israelites), while others have none (the withering of the fig tree cursed by Jesus).

We are creatures of the spirit as well as of the flesh, and we can not be at ease with ourselves unless we feel we are fulfilling, however vaguely or imperfectly, a moral purpose.

They do not in themselves give capitalism a positive moral purpose.

Another way to combine capitalism with moral purpose is for society to endorse the related but broader concept of equality of opportunity.

Almost all efforts to provide capitalism itself with a positive moral purpose run into the same difficulty.

One knew beyond doubting that life was significant, that hideous circumstance — a broken leg miles from help — could be transcended through faith in Jesus and fierce moral purpose.

The intent of this paper is to present a conceptual model of a physical and biological universe in a state of constant change and evolution, based on three principal ideas: (a) neo-Aristotelian notions of reciprocal causality, (b) chaotic dynamics and contingencies of self - organizing systems, and (c) emergence of consciousness and sense of moral purpose in...

Yale, once a great institution with some moral purpose, is now an institution without moral purpose.

Is it the strategic and moral purpose of the U.S. to assist unhappy ethnic groups to dismember sovereign states?

In principle, physical education provides the best opportunity for the harmonious development of the entire person, through contests of skill in which intelligence, esthetic imagination, social sensitivity, and moral purpose are channeled through significant physical activity.

There's been much talk lately about the moral purposes of history, especially from those celebrating the recent Supreme Court decision regarding gay marriage.

But in none of these writings is there any sustained attempt to give an eschatological interpretation to the facts of the ministry of Jesus apart from His passion, death, and resurrection, even though all three writers are aware that His death was the final expression of a character and a moral purpose which displayed itself in His whole incarnate life.

Most importantly, we view the whole of reality as pervaded by moral purpose and meaning.

According to Ayn Rand, The pursuit of man's own rational self - interest and of his own happiness is the highest moral purpose of his life.

In many passages it is obvious that the idea of God inherent in Jesus» thought has not yet found its logical conclusion; that what Jesus himself, thinking in terms of some of his own parables and of his own life - principles, could not have considered ethically satisfying endless, hopeless torture, without constructive moral purpose and therefore without moral meaning — God is accused of inflicting, as judge of the world and arbiter of destiny.

After a nod in the direction of a moderate amount of ceremony and of the need for an architecture that witnesses to the presence of the Divine, Niebuhr continues: «Without an adequate sermon no clue is given to the moral purpose at the heart of the mystery, and reverence remains without ethical content (p. 55)

When, however, theism is accepted and the unity of the universe is conceived in terms not of physical cohesion only but of moral purpose also, then the appalling tragedies of man's personal and social life become not merely hardships difficult to bear but an intellectual problem difficult to solve.

interest that joins inextricably with the gold of moral purpose in every foreign policy.

Glendon and Weigel understand the sundry worlds of moral purpose and self - interest that must be addressed in more imaginative ways.

On the one side, Christians were to exercise undiscourageable goodwill toward evil men, even praying for those who slew them when no other manner of expressing goodwill remained; but, on the other side, the new faith retained the hopeless torture chamber of Gehenna, where punishment was supposed to go on in endless agony long after moral purpose in the torture had been lost.

The intent of this paper is to present a conceptual model of a physical and biological universe in a state of constant change and evolution, based on three principal ideas: (a) neo-Aristotelian notions of reciprocal causality, (b) chaotic dynamics and contingencies of self - organizing systems, and (c) emergence of consciousness and sense of moral purpose in humans.

Once one has provided a moral purpose for the use of any particular technology, one is justified in adapting to the requirements inherent in that particular technology.

God is the source of life, the source of consciousness, the source of personality, moral purpose, and ethical action.

By creating a school environment that integrates academic, artistic and practical disciplines, the Austin Waldorf School cultivates a love of learning, creative thinking, a sympathetic interest in the world, self - confidence, and an abiding moral purpose.

We cultivate a love of learning, creative thinking, self - confidence, understanding of others and an abiding moral purpose.

Our deeply committed faculty works together to foster each student's sense of self - reliance, concern for community and moral purpose.

The event rocked the church's sense of moral purpose more than those of the City of London and triggered a spate of resignations at the top of the organisation.

They had a sense of moral purpose but solutions to thorny policy areas were not as clear as they appeared to be during intoxicating delivery.

He proposed a left - right split, and offered a watery vision of what latter - day «modernisers» should be all about: a «renewed sense of moral purpose», reducible to the hoary New Labour emphasis on social mobility, and a politics that would «be seen to be grappling seriously with the big questions of the day: migration, globalisation, terrorism, the environment, welfare, housing, our place in the world».

Alternatively he can say that he has had to change his position and is doing so for the great moral purpose of helping the low paid into work and to ensure better targeting of scarce resources on the very neediest, including poor pensioners.

Douglas Alexander, the Foreign Office minister, has called for a stronger sense of moral purpose in the campaign.

He should explain why his moral purpose in politics is defined by extending opportunity to all and narrowing the gaps in life chances in Britain, because we are stronger as a society and an economy when all are included.

The sense that conservatism has a moral purpose, that the Conservative Party is its political expression, and that it is for everyone who agrees with that purpose is indispensible not only if that party is to win in 2015, but if it is ever again to become Britain's natural party of government (which, at present, is Labour).

But many others went out of their way to praise the moral purpose behind Duncan Smith's resignation and to express reservations about George Osborne's budget and wider political strategy.

I approach it with a high moral purpose but also a strong pragmatic one for the economy in terms of building jobs.»

Labour's early thinking drew on a rich intellectual well - spring of ethical socialism, social liberalism and sense of moral purpose (much of which was religious in inspiration).

It said in part, «We happily discovered far more concordance than any of us had expected, quickly moving beyond dialogue to a sense of shared moral purpose.»

In «Tug of War» (Research, Fall 2003), James B. Murphy argues that «the attempt to inculcate civic values in our schools is at best ineffective and often undermines the intrinsic moral purpose of schooling.»