Sentences with phrase «think about morality»

«People don't think about the morality of the crime, they think about their self - interest.

Seeing these things through the Leisure Land microcosm — so finite and graspable — causes Paul to think about morality.

As a former Catholic and religious person, I do appreciate that church brings people together once a week to think about morality, even though there are some immoralities mixed in — religion is a work in progress.

We can also think about morality more clearly because we are not saddled with the faith process, where you do what you are told without thinking for yourself.

Implicit and sometimes quite explicit in his argument is a Kantian framework for thinking about morality.

Not exact matches

Religion seems to think that morality can not ever be achieved through any other means than by what some book says about it.

I prefer to allow for context to color my morality, that way I'm forced to actually think about it before I react.

The stated practical aim of the book is refreshingly modest; it is «to encourage contemporary thinkers to take seriously the role that divine authority might play in morality, and thereby perhaps to think seriously about the reality of God.»

I think there's a separate discussion to be had about morality, what «should» be done under the circumstances, rather than what people are forced into.

These teachings — for better, and sometimes for worse — contributed to a largely monolithic way of thinking about religion and morality.

Don't you think a minister, people who spend their whole lives thinking about ethics and morality, have something worthwhile to say on it?

«I think morality is being talked about a lot more in 2012,» said David Brody, chief political correspondent for the Christian Broadcasting Network.

There is a related way of thinking about society, one that shaped the founding cultures of Greece and Rome: namely, the morality and politics of the common good (bonum commune).

It is simple confusion to think otherwise, and Johnson's recent effort (see FT January) to construe presumption - against in terms of worries about the inherent morality of war, or about the nature of prima facie duties, amounts to nothing more than the blowing of thick clouds of smoke.

Before you say another word, think for a minute about how members of your faith continuously push for legislation to force others to your way of life, force your morality, spark witch hunts for radicalized members of other religions even though it's more often than not white guys gunning down crowds in schools, theatres, grocery store parking lots, etc..

If, moreover, one thinks of the tree as the motherly feminine or as a symbol for the whole of nature, the shadows lengthen into a bleak morality tale about an oblivious male chauvinism or about an environmentally destructive anthropocentrism, both ominously foretold when, early on, the boy gathers leaves and weaves them into a crown and struts about playing king of the forest, his nose lifted high in the air.

The revision of American thought and practice about life questions began with abortion, and examination of the moral confusion attending that issue helps us understand more general developments in public morality.

Her thinking never toouches the real world, and that is a problem when the subject is morality, which is what you actually do, not some abstract concept you think about.

I get sad thinking how we have come to think of animals as disposable, what does that say about us and our morality?

If it is true that the Christian God exists, it is irrelevant what I think about him or his «morality».

Now take any case of morality and think about this.

They thought the truth of the Church's teaching about conjugal morality and fertility regulation could be presented in a humane and personalistic way: one that acknowledged both the moral duty to plan one's family and the demands of self - sacrifice in conjugal life; one that affirmed methods of fertility - regulation that respected the body's dignity and its built - in moral «grammar;» one that that recognized the moral equality and equal moral responsibility of men and women, rather than leaving the entire burden of fertility - regulation on the wife.

Priests and others are reluctant to talk about controversial areas of morality, especially the «pelvic issues», with the result that the main influence on Catholic thinking on those issues comes from the surrounding culture.

If we now suppose this feeling of unity to be taught as a religion, and the whole force of education, of institutions, and of opinion directed, as it once was in the case of religion, to make every person grow up from infancy surrounded on all sides both by the profession and the practice of it, I think that no one who can realize this conception will feel any misgiving about the sufficiency of the ultimate sanction for the happiness morality.

That doesn't (I think) say much about the objective morality or respectfulness of nude sculptures and paintings, but it says a lot about the relationship between grandparents and grandchildren.

I believe you think that divine morality is all about a list of do's and don'ts.

I wonder what the people think about who voted for him, where their line is, how much they can take, where does the morality and decency kick in?

The more I read about these philosophy and morality from Wenger, the more I think about how he is not suited for the modern football and the ability to adapt with the changing times.

I think it's because I was writing on a yahoo answers about morality of parents circumcisng their kids so word was used recently.

Question the morality of a man who despite being in his 60's thought it a good idea to «shamelessly lie to the electorate» by sitting on the floor of a train to whip up hysteria about nationalising rail.

The analogy with morality would simply be: There is going to be a suite of universal principles that dictate how we think about the nature of harming and helping others, but each culture has some freedom — not unlimited — to dictate who is harmed and who is helped.

In a study of morality, people who were asked to think about something unethical that they had done, such as shoplifting, were twice as likely to choose an antiseptic wipe versus a pencil as a gift than were people who had thought about performing an ethical act, such as helping a sick friend (ScienceNOW, 7 September 2006).

Good Deeds (PG - 13 for sexuality, violence, profanity and mature themes) Tyler Perry wrote, directed and stars in this modern morality play as an unfulfilled, corporate CEO who has second thoughts about marrying his shallow fiancée (Gabrielle Union) after befriending a struggling, single - mom (Thandie Newton) who works as a janitor in his company's office building.

Nuri Bilge Ceylan weaves a tale that speaks to human morality and mortality in a way that American cinema, mainstream or independent, doesn't like to think about anymore.

Gardner encourages readers to think clearly about their own conceptions of truth, beauty, and morality, as well as the current status of these virtues in society.

Part of the book revolves around differences in how kids think about moral problems and about how achievement pressures shape their morality.

Part of the problem is that political parties have carved out different meanings for morality; but, he adds, «There's another kind of morality which I think we have quite a lot of common ground about, which is that kids should be taught to be respectful, caring, and fair.»

In the course of that process, I've learned something, and I would like to think that the reader would learn something too, whether what I've been writing about involves such things as breast cancer in Before The Swallow Dares, the dubious morality of politicians in The Heat of the Kitchen, or, in the case of Billy's War, what it was like to be a little boy in war - torn Britain in the 1940s.

Existentialism Existentialism is really an amalgam of different ways of thinking about the world, all of which pose questions about how individuals might find meaning and morality in life without depending on a personal deity.

The book urges one to think a lot about human nature and morality.

We learn why Batswana always speak of their dead as «late», what Precious (and McCall Smith) think of Consultants, and more about the Old Botswana Morality and kindness.

Thomas» first novel is stunning in its examination of the complexities of race, as it invites long thoughts about the social fabric, ethics, morality and justice.

There are other moral decisions to make in the game that don't involve Little Sisters, I'm not going to spoil anything but at one point this game made me put down my controller and think about what I wanted to do, this is something all developers who implement a morality system should be aiming for and 2K Marin hit the nail on the head here.

Having ambiguous morality, I think, is part of what is so human about this piece.

«The World Council of Churches reminds us that morality demands thinking as much about the future as about ourselves — and that there's no threat to the future greater than the unchecked burning of fossil fuels.

Moreover, they're doing if from a point of a much lower carbon footprint than the U.S. and a much greater sense of RESPONSIBILITY while the average American is still whining about his rights but never thinks about responsibility, when the average American talks about God and morality but doesn't have any sense of social responsibility, only selfishness (when will the world end?

The Pope may think of himself as a moral heavy weight but in reality, he's a bureaucrat and wears morality like a personality... it goes with the turf and is just about as deep as the greens.

At the same time, thinking about ethics only in terms of ordinary morality, of the general idea of what it means to be a good person, is also insufficient.

I thought that in Canada, particularly since the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, we are reluctant to legislate morality, about which many legitimately disagree, particularly using the criminal law.

Coincidentally, or maybe that's what has me thinking more than usual about law and morality, Joseph Raz, one of our pre-eminent philosophers on legal and moral issues, has started to release some of his older papers onto SSRN.