Sentences with phrase «sense of moral principle»

All of which is really to say that evil magic is domination of the natural world through science and technology loosed from any sense of moral principle — the culture of death.

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The principle constituting this universal social practice is itself meta - ethical, in the following sense: the social action prescribed is explicitly neutral to all moral disagreement.4 On the face of it, one might object, a prescription of universal rights can not be explicitly neutral to all such disagreement because it is not explicitly neutral to disagreement about the principle itself.

As a derivation from the meta - ethical character of every claim to moral validity, the specific practice of moral discourse both implies and is implied by — and, in that sense, belongs to — a principle that constitutes social action universally.

Rightly understood, faith and justice are in principle different because, while faith is a matter of human existence, of authentic self - understanding in trust and loyalty in response to God's love, justice is a matter of human action, whether right action toward all others (its generally moral sense), or right structures of social and cultural order (its specifically political sense).

At least, our experience of the animals with whom we live is that they exhibit behaviors similar to many of our own; that those behaviors clearly seem to be signs of emotional and mental qualities familiar to us from our own knowledge of ourselves; that animals possess distinctive individual traits, characteristics that are irreducibly personal (even if we feel obliged to recoil from that word on metaphysical principle), their own peculiar affections and aversions, expectations and fears; that many beasts command certain rational skills; and that all of this makes some kind of natural appeal to our moral sense.

According to both the Sutras and the Dhammapada, following the disciplined practice of moral and ethical principles, and after one has sought to actively withdraw engrossment of senses from the world, it is in the act of meditation by which one witnesses the real dissolution of attachments.

In a real sense, Mahatma Gandhi embodied in his life certain universal principles that are inherent in the moral structure of the universe, and these principles are as inescapable as the law of gravitation.»

Watch video and learn about the moral principle, respect the religious beliefs of others, from The Way to Happiness moral code book, based on common sense.

In this sense, many of these movies («Room,» in which the heroine turns inward after she is victimized, may be the sole exception) works by a principle Immanuel Kant laid out in his «The Metaphysics of Morals.»

It is a nontrivial problem in other cultures with other religions, each claiming that an antique document is a better guide for moral behavior than mere common sense and the application of simple principle of personal freedom as long as it doesn't materially hurt others.

She defines this motivating feeling as «a sense of moral outrage, the sort of outrage that accompanies conviction... outrage as principled resistance.»