Sentences with phrase «set of moral principles»

While a process - based ontology may avoid prescribing an immutable set of moral principles, we may yet discern — within its existential uncertainties and contingencies — a universal normative principle that reflects the reciprocal causal unity and «novel togetherness» of the many becoming one.

I'm a student at a Christian college, and it saddens me to think that you would distrust my collaborative ability based on the fact that I attend a school that has a specific set of moral principles.

Waugh understood that this search was all about the actual, raw fact of the Crucifixion really happening: the Christian faith is not a set of moral principles, or a myth and some lovely traditions, but the truth, rooted in history.

I can still have my own set of moral principles even if I do nt identify with a particular set of faiths and principles.

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Just because it is meta - ethical, this principle itself presupposes another or supreme moral principle, and I will subsequently argue that the universal set of tights in question is an indirect application of the teleology backed by neoclassical metaphysics.

Rather than accept the burden of complicated moral decisions, to which they must apply critical thinking and rational inquiry, they turn off their mental faculty and accept as true and infallible a set of principles that we developed in the very infancy of our civilization.

Whereas the principle set forth in Deuteronomy may provide some means of measuring the accuracy of the predictions of an astrologer like Jeane Dixon or the lucrative prognostications of a dispensationalist like Hal Lindsey, it is less well suited to discerning the reliability of a call to moral judgment and decisive action.

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.

The church possesses, or better is possessed by, the principle of life «in Christ» — a life of discipleship that is not simply obedience to a set of moral truths supposedly taught by Jesus but a life in which «Christ dwells in our hearts by faith» and enables his people to act, insofar as they are able, in conformity with his pattern of human existence.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

It is indeed true that a way out of this multiplicity and diversity was striven for; the scribes at the time of Jesus discussed the question of the central requirement of the Law, and they sought to classify, to combine, or to set up certain moral principles as fundamentally important.

Immediately after the statement of the greatest happiness principle, he adds: «To give a clear view of the moral standard set up by the theory, much more requires to be said: in particular what things it includes in the ideas of pain and pleasure, and to what extent this is left an open question» (U 10).

For many reasons — among them the example which capital punishment sets, its effect on those who must carry out death sentences and, above all, its violation of a basic moral principle — the state ought not to kill people.

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.

Chigurh is a man who is irredeemably evil, but who acts upon his own set of morals and principles.

In teaching religious principles, the issue has a different set of concerns than other subjects might, perhaps, as tenets of a religion are presented as a universal truth and moral code.

The soul of a nation is defined by its citizens» ability to agree upon a set of principles and values which reflect the moral fabric of its entire population, something only accomplished when everyone has a voice.

The Code of Ethics of the AAMA and the NHSMA shall set forth principles of ethical and moral conduct as they relate to the medical profession and the practice of medical assisting.