Sentences with phrase «produce moral people»

An emphasis on social relationships in classrooms, students» interest in the subject matter to be studied and the connections between classroom life and that of the larger world provides the foundation of our attempts to produce moral people.

Not exact matches

The Western tradition of moral reflection has produced a long line of reasoning about the fundamental worth of people and the immorality of direct killing.

That there have «only» been 75 - 100 million people killed for religious reasons is hardly compelling evidence of God's power to produce moral followers.

Roger Harding, head of public attitudes at the National Centre for Social Research who produced a report into the findings, was quoted by The Times as saying: «It suggests people are taking their moral views from elsewhere.»

Furthermore, the alternative that you state should have proof of its effectiveness in producing highly moral people, for example, better than Mother Teresa.

Doctrine and religious belief may serve to produce a kind and moral person, but the motivation is based on fear.

One sees variations of it in many fields of study (for example, in trendy new movements like postmodernism) and everywhere it produces doubts among reflective people about the possibility of justifying belief in objective intellectual, cultural and moral standards.

Modern moral philosophy becomes part of the problem, for its stress on autonomy, like its corresponding attempt to free ethics from history, produces people incapable of living lives that have narrative coherence.

The apparent moral weakness and inefficiency of the creedal churches, together with the wider knowledge of the religions of foreign and ancient peoples, produced in many minds a critical attitude toward the church, comparable in many ways to the situation which had threatened the medieval establishment centuries before.

Many of us who have written about Rawls» argument have noted that the people behind his famous «veil of ignorance» are a peculiar kind of people (i.e., people very much like John Rawls) and therefore can hardly serve as the normative deliberators producing universal moral principles.

The American commercial republic was conceived as an institutional design that would stir the self - interest of individuals to produce not brutal competition but civilized emulation, uplifting the people's material and moral standards of life.

Finally, once we realize that most FWTs do not claim that «God in fact deliberately creates conditions producing suffering in order to stimulate moral and spiritual qualities,» we see that there is no basis for maintaining that the affirmation of a free - will theodicy «could promote callousness» in the sense that it could cause FWTs «to belittle the importance of liberating persons from conditions producing suffering» (ER 19).

Indeed, the final two sections of the book try to show how «belief in the Triune God» produces particular sorts of persons, capable of giving practical utterance to the «most truthful and coherent account of the moral life and moral judgment.»

In June 1971 the editors of Oz magazine went on trial at the Old Bailey for, among other things, conspiring to «corrupt the morals of young children and other young persons» by producing an «obscene article».

The reason for that is the extremely large psychological effect produced by the suicide attack (moral supremacy over the opponent, inducing fear in large numbers of people).

In fact, the pressure not to apply moral standards is more likely to produce an ethic of indifference, not one of true tolerance — as young people learn not to pass judgment on all kinds of horrendous practices, especially when they are nonwestern.

Affective education and moral education should work together to produce good people.

In general, character education or moral education is a field of endeavor that attempts to produce the kinds of persons who pursue the goods toward which cultures are directed.»

It seems to me that that something like Climategate was bound to happen, and will continue to happen in the form of things like as Glaciergates and Africagates for instance as people start to see what climate science is and isn't capable of producing for their moral and political arguments.