Thinking Ethically About the Environment This short course helps students - from high school to adult learners - to recognize and
use moral language to describe how they value the earth.
In our time, a hesitancy to
use a moral language remains the most stubborn and distracting problem for character education.
If we refuse to
use moral language in our discussion, we lose our ability to hold the perpetrators of such acts responsible for their actions.
Not exact matches
(It is because of specific difficulty attached to learning how to
use the
moral expressions of a
language that we find novels more helpful than explicit ethical reflection in teaching us how to live morally.)
«Judge Jones
used what I would call
moral language in praising the death penalty as a means to help people come to terms with the crime they committed.»
Start with the studies done by Jane Goodall, and then continue with a HUGE variety of other animal studies that PROVE animals have
morals, they
use tools, build societies and cultures, have their own
languages (such as the prarie dogs... simple little rodents right?
Likewise this phenomenon has drawn much attention from the mainstream media, who seem eager to point out the apparent discord that religious believers would flock to such a controversial figure, one who flaunts his past
moral failings, publicly
uses indecent
language, and «isn't sure» if he's ever asked God for forgiveness.
The voter's
use of the term demonstrates the challenges women candidates and lesbians in particular face, and Weiner's failure to swiftly and firmly condemn her
language demonstrates his lack of
moral courage.
Religious
language resonates even beyond adherents: for example, the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu are
moral leaders who
use the vocabulary of their faiths to influence thinking and behavior well beyond their own traditions.
In announcing the change, President Obama emphasized the need to «make scientific decisions based on facts, not ideology,» yet the new policy, as well as the
language that the president
used to explain it, underscores that the stem cell debate is in important ways not about scientific facts at all, but about the difficulty of balancing competing
moral preferences.
I taught my daughter her alphabet, words, songs, jokes, swimming, laughing, painting, toboganning, skating,
morals, kindness and even sign
language, which we
used on a few occasions when the mother would tease us with child access, then take my daughter away at the last minute.
Since they do not feel
moral emotions of empathy, sympathy, or compassion, the therapist may unwittingly teach compassionate gestures and
language that their client can
use to more effectively manipulate people.