Sentences with phrase «points of moral principle»

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Underlying this erroneous tendency, as Faith has pointed out many times over the last forty years, is the implicit or explicit denial of the transcendence of God, the Divinity of Christ, the historical objectivity of revelation and the authority of the Church in matters of faith and morals, and also the denial of the spiritual soul as a principle of existence that is distinct from yet integrates the material within the unity of our human nature.

Such values, while not all present at every point of Old Testament morality, do in fact underlie the bulk of the moral norms and principles we find there.

Although space will not permit exploration of the point here, it is important to note that Christian thought about just war predated the rise of the modern state system in the 17th century, and rests on fundamental moral principles not essentially tied to that system.

With the value - laden concept of organism as our starting point, there is a hope of having a single set of principles which encompass all forms of experience, physiology and psychology, including morals, politics and aesthetics.

Indeed, everybody holds certain principles of «elemental faith»: for example, that the world has some kind of order to it, and that we have some kind of moral responsibility Elemental faith and other forms of secular faith provide «points of contact» for Christians trying to explain saving faith.

In Kohlberg's model, he exemplified «stage six» moral reasoning: autonomous, conscience - oriented morality pointing toward universal principles of justice.

At least at the level of principle, principle never eschewed, it has always acknowledged both the freedom for temporal affairs to be self - regulating and the right for itself to keep a critical outlook on them and to assess moral, political, and economic practice from the point of view of ethics.

On the most important points the moral principles of the Decalogue remain basic.

The second point is to draw on an analogy with language and ask whether there might be something like a universal moral grammar, a set of principles that every human is born with.

It was Mann's point of view that children in the common school were to receive a common moral education based on the general principles of the Bible and on common virtues.

To point out this elementary fact is not, obviously, to draw any moral equivalence between injustices: it is to insist only on what Herbert Wechsler rightly proclaimed, decades ago, should be an animating value of all constitutional adjudicaton: the development of general, neutral, principles.