Sentences with phrase «universal moral principles»

A natural law judge would make positive laws out of his own perception of universal moral principles.

Aren't they illustrations of universal universal moral principles.

How else do all the world religions and non-religious members agree on universal moral principles?

This general revelation, which makes itself manifest in certain universal moral principles, is one that is most immediately accessible to human reason.

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.

Despite their rhetoric of pluralism and their deconstructionist ideologies, many in practice behave as though they held Enlightenment - like self - evident universal moral principles.

20:2 - 17 is in dispute, and it is doubtful that in its present form it is Mosaic, there is no adequate ground for doubting that under Moses both the religious and the social structure of Israel took shape.7 What is more significant than its date is the unique convergence of duties owed to Yahweh with universal moral principles which it embodies.

But he will not admit that the uniqueness of the moral and Christian human being stands outside a structure of specific universal moral principles founded on essences.

This task is not simple, for often the biblical texts are not concerned to distinguish universal moral principles from particular prescriptions of ritual purity and legal ordinances.

Here, we show that religious belief — even amidst a conflict centered on religious differences — can lead people to apply universal moral principles similarly to believers and non-believers alike,» said Jeremy Ginges, associate professor of psychology at the New School for Social Research.

He also denies both that the biblical grasp of universal moral principles is irrelevant to Eastern cultures, and that the West has a monopoly on those principles.

Many moralists speak of love as the one fundamental and universal moral principle, the golden rule honored in all traditions.

These arguments present a special challenge to neoclassical metaphysics because they are advanced by those who, in a time when relativism in some form or other seems to be ascendant, share the affirmation of a universal moral principle or principles.

With the collapse of communism, the Russian government has rejected the Soviet Oath and demanded from its doctors a pledge «to revise the moral foundations of Russian physicians» and promote «the restoration of the priority of universal moral principles.»

If, to return to that obvious and critical example, there is no «human nature,» then there are no universal moral principles that can be «read» from human nature.