Sentences with phrase «point 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.

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I must emphasize that, from two points of view, the order of violence can not be brought under moral judgment.

For if he had truly grasped the position Arkes defends he would understand that his own judgment — that Arkes is mistaken at points — is itself dependent on moral notions not contingent upon relative circumstances or the contingencies of history.

And I suppose at this point I must point out what should be common knowledge: If secular thinkers believe they can take the measure of traditional moral and religious concepts with the callow judgment that they are comparable to geocentrism, they are simply mistaken.

Yet to begin ethical reflection at this point invariably seems to result in arbitrarily separating the moral judgment of an action from the kind of person who performs it.

Yet both sin and judgment are stark realities, and the most pervasive type of sin lies in the complacency, lethargy, and moral dullness of self - love at those points where both knowledge and freedom are available.

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.

Indeed, the Christian who bets that God is dead must recognize that he himself has not yet passed through the death of God at whatever point he clings to moral law and judgment.

As thinkers in moral philosophy such as Bernard Williams and Alisdair MacIntyre — upon whom Hauerwas draws extensively — contend, there is no Archimedean point, no tradition - independent perspective from which value judgments of the sort implied by Muray's charges of sexism, racism and anti-Judaism can be made.

Former Massachusetts Governor and 2012 GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney delivered a sweeping, point - by - point indictment of Trump — of his policy proposals, his business dealings, his erratic judgments, his moral character, and his insults to women, Latinos and the disabled.

The researchers concluded that the right temporal parietal junction not only was activated during this kind of moral judgment but was pivotal in adding intent to the moral equation and determining the volunteers» point of view.

His point is to complicate our view of human behavior and to object to moral certainties that encourage black - and - white judgments about what's good and what's evil.

He took the trolley problem as his starting point, then invented questions designed to place volunteers on a spectrum of moral judgment.

From a purely physical point of view and without any moral judgment, fiat money is reversible thanks to the centralized nature of the banking system.