Sentences with phrase «practice of slavery»

LOS ANGELES — Insisting that the legal, centuries - long practice of slavery in America could never have limited his personal or artistic ambitions, Kanye West stated Wednesday that if he had been born into captivity, he would have simply escaped the plantation on his motorcycle «the first chance [he] got.»

It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were human beings (a biological category); b) all humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.

Consider in this context the social practice of slavery, where, for present purposes, this means an order of interaction whose norms prescribe that some human individuals ought to have exclusive disposal over the activities of others.

In these cases, the grossly unfair practices of slavery and the killing of the innocent, although they seem intrinsically reprehensible, would be obligatory according to utilitarian principles.

The problem of the slave is not so easily handled; for the thinking of today, the widespread and legalized practice of slavery constitutes a very black stain on the social attainments of ancient Israel.

The result was a new consensus that repents of and rejects the practice of slavery and any biblical interpretation that tries to defend slavery.

He himself proceeds in this kind of historical framing of intellectual and social questions, such as the influences of Greek thought or the practice of slavery.

Yet you seem to speak as if the truth of the practice of slavery being immoral is universally understood and appeal to the teachings of Christ to support this notion... yet He Himself never condemned it, even including the practice in many of His parables.

Exodus involved setting up a strongly controlled new theocracy, not any ethical repudiation of the practice of slavery.

For like the practice of slavery, and like the Jim Crow laws of the not - so - distant past, the abortion issue raises the most fundamental questions of justice — questions that can not be avoided, and that can not be be resolved by judicial fiat.

At that time there were many «French's» defending the practice of slavery with scripture.

It is not sufficient therefore that the Old Testament should indicate a certain moral position (e.g. the practice of slavery or of divorce, or that of extermination in the case of war) for this position to continue to have validity.

Using the same method of selective scripture reading, one could also cite the Bible as an authority for the practice of slavery, adultery, polygamy, incest, suppression of women, executing people who eat pork, and infanticide.

This illustrates how the practice of slavery by certain Muslim rulers contravened Islamic injunctions.

The issue is not confined to African American people - it also affects Latin American, and Asian communities - but in the United States its origin is inexorably linked to the practice of slavery.