Sentences with phrase «public morality»

Several of the teachers of values education believe that only a Christian perspective can renew the foundations of public morality.

And it is wrong, but without a robust public morality, it's difficult to maintain a sense of proportion.

One side's vision of public morality will win out.

Until quite recently, Americans have debated the issues of public morality in theological terms which they thought had something to do with truth claims.

The «new secular public morality» from climate change to identity politics to a complacent Canadian blogger...

In this connection Jenson offers some harsh but not unjust criticism of American public morality with respect to the violation of the fifth commandment («You shall not kill») in the instance of legalized abortion.

Points of commonality still exist in the broadly Western understanding of human dignity and destiny that can provide a majoritarian basis for public morality.

Public morality does not mean the shoring up of lax morals through legislation demanded by a culturally conservative voting bloc.

What does public morality mean to Mondale, and what is its relation to religion?

Douglas Farrow's «Thirteen Theses» speak of sexual and public morality on the most universal level possible.

If religions thus eschew separate «communal power» and seek justice in society, there is no reason why for this purpose, they should not bring their specific faith - insights regarding public morality into dialogue and common action through secular multi-religious groups open for faith - interaction among themselves as well as with secular ideologies.

But any endeavor to live up to the law will end in despair or a cynicism that erodes public morality.

The Machiavellian maxim that the end justifies the means, embraced by some privately while usually condemned publicly, is now becoming openly acknowledged public morality.

Scalia argued that such a principle, if applied, would spell the death of all laws enforcing public morality.

The 1857 judicial ban on publication of six Baudelaire poems that violated public morality was not lifted until 1949, after years of efforts to get the ruling overturned.

I think, however, that the ban has more to do with contemporary society's truncated public morality.

The guardians of public morality fretted about the spread of vulgar divorce to the middle and working classes.

If you doubt the full truth of Menninger's observations, reflect upon the «public morality plays» that are regularly offered on television.

(Incidentally Ayckbourn's 1987 play, A Small Family Business, nicely skewers some of the embarrassing conflicts between public morality, private greed and «the individual» which this sort of thing threw up.)

First, Tony Blair will go on trial - principally for Iraq but also for the utter degeneration of public morality over which he presided.

He underlines every word, every sentence, every paragraph, or even every page that is indecent and that endangers public morality and the time - honored values of society.

It was accepted that the elements of the offence were twofold: (i) there had to be contemptuous, reviling, scurrilous and / or ludicrous material relating to God, Christ, the Bible or the formularies of the Church of England; and (ii) the publication had to be such as tended to endanger society as a whole, by endangering the peace, depraving public morality, shaking the fabric of society or tending to cause civil strife.

The authors also argue for the appropriateness of the term abuse and for scientific terminology that reflects rather than contradicts consensual public morality.

The moral straitjacketing of anyone who raises a critical peep about eco-orthodoxies is part of a growing «new secular public morality», he says, «which seeks to impose its views on others, even at the cost of political censorship».

«Why put responsibility upon the scientific community for the decline of urban society and public morality in the United States?

Interest is itself a valid concern and the term has of course been part of the traditional systems of moral thought, but the common - sense utilitarianism that has become the dominant mode of American public morality has torn interest from its larger traditional context and understands it only in terms of the self - interest of the isolated individual.

At the time, the ministry had began blacklisting any title that, «include scenes of violence, pornography, terrorism and crimes against public morality.»

Let us be mindful that it is not our Muslim fellow citizens who have undermined public morality, assaulted our religious liberty, and attempted to force us to comply with their ideology on pain of being reduced to the status of second - class citizens.

Then, there are the many troubles of Senate President Saraki, all hinged on alleged lack of basic integrity in government and scant regard for public morality.

Marr wants to insist on the futility of any expression of public morality that must rely on theological premises (which he calls «dogma»).

Stephen L. Carter warns that we must not fall into the error of speaking «as though the Constitution and the decisions explicating it constitute the whole of public morality.»

Bischoff wants to insist upon the futility of any expression of public morality that is not ecclesiastically based.

They had tacitly accepted a truce on theological discussion in order to concentrate on a task in which they were all at one — action in the spheres of public morality and social evils.

Public morality and general goodness were being corroded by vast waves of «pagan» immigrants, by crime, poverty, and industrial strife.

Many of these groups were drawn closer together by their action in behalf of better social conditions and public morality.