Sentences with phrase «what higher moral»

On what higher moral sense do you base your judgment?

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China can not claim the moral high ground on trade matters; in fact, there is a strong case to be made that American voters» resentment of China's unfair trade practices is what put Trump in the White House in the first place.

You fail to uphold your morals: When you get too caught up in what your boss thinks of you, how much money you think your spouse needs to be happy, or how bad you will look if you fail, you are at high risk of violating your own morals.

It had not occurred to me that anyone would imagine that the only alternative to a boundless confidence in reason's competency to extract moral truths from nature's evident forms, no matter what the prevailing cultural regime, is the belief that moral knowledge is the exclusive preserve of «revelation,» narrowly conceived as a body of inscrutable legislations irrupting into history from on high.

When you inhabit the moral high ground like Theo believes he does, what's a little misrepresentation among friends?

Case in point, it is not logical to suggest there is «good» vs «bad» if there is no ultimate moral authority, no higher power that created everything, including free will and the ability to choose whether to heed that drive to do what is «good» vs doing what you want to do at the expense of «good» and of other people.

what upsets people is what i DO N'T do: such as lead in a particular way, teach with authority, be more charismatic, not setting a higher moral standard, stuff like that... it's not about what i or we DO as a community.

Instead of simply stating the law and reacting in panic when it is widely broken, those concerned for traditional moral wisdom would do much better to affirm the high possibility of the life of faithful love, and to understand with love what is happening to people in ghettoes, in college campuses, in the life of the family today.

We live in an age whose chief moral value has been determined, by overwhelming consensus, to be the absolute liberty of personal volition, the power of each of us to choose what he or she believes, wants, needs, or must possess; our culturally most persuasive models of human freedom are unambiguously voluntarist and, in a rather debased and degraded way, Promethean; the will, we believe, is sovereign because unpremised, free because spontaneous, and this is the highest good.

(Nov. 9), «What to do with nuclear waste is a problem that requires a moral examination precisely because it is so filled with uncertainty that we dare not resolve it without some sense of a higher purpose at stake.»

For here, the «presumption» tends to give higher priority to what were classically understood as important but secondary criteria, like «last resort» and «probable chance of success,» over the classic first - order criteria: competent authority, just cause, and right intention (about which, to repeat, we can have a greater degree of moral surety).

So I'd suggest adding this terrific film to the curriculum of every Catholic (and indeed every Christian) high school in North America, to remind students what happened in their parents» lifetimes and to inspire them to moral greatness themselves.

They mark the conclusion of what we call the once - born period, and represent the highest flights of what twice - born religion would call the purely natural man — Epicureanism, which can only by great courtesy be called a religion, showing his refinement, and Stoicism exhibiting his moral will.

I am a proud athiest, and of what I feel to be high moral standards.

Perhaps occupying the moral high ground is what they teach at Smith, but that's rarely the beginning of a respectful exchange of ideas.

We claim to have high moral and ethical standards, but we just don't always know what they are.

But what most struck me about the Austen domestic background was not so much the high achievements of most of the siblings but the moral universe into which they were all raised.

The point which emerges most clearly from these two illustrations is that the most destructive social evils of which we have knowledge appear on what, according to any previous conception of progress, have been high levels of intellectual and moral advance.

If what is demanded of me by high moral principles also leads to my deliverance in a situation where not to act in accordance with these ethical demands or to continue in my same ways of acting leads to my destruction, then there are possibilities for basic transformations of my ideas, attitudes, and goals.

The only party in this who has a high moral ground to stand on are the team and their non-Jewish coach, who knew what is really important in living a moral life.

2000 years, extraordinary changes in what we know about the universe, extraordinary differences in technologies, how we trade, share ideas, art, literature, knowledge of all kinds, standard of living, moral standards are much higher.

What was lacking was genuine «obedience», not to a set of moral requirements imposed from on high, but in a certain quality of spirit.

«What I see in the Bible's accounts of Jesus and his followers is...» Well, therein lies your problem, Mark Osler, you need to rely on your Higher Authority to know what is right, wrong, moral, immoral and pleasing to or punishable by our CreaWhat I see in the Bible's accounts of Jesus and his followers is...» Well, therein lies your problem, Mark Osler, you need to rely on your Higher Authority to know what is right, wrong, moral, immoral and pleasing to or punishable by our Creawhat is right, wrong, moral, immoral and pleasing to or punishable by our Creator.

What makes you the authority to take the moral high ground now or is this just a sham by you to take God out of the US??

But this high - mindedness, Wisse notes sadly, can become what she calls a kind of moral solipsism: «a reckoning that is preoccupied with its own performance to the exclusion of everyone else's.»

With all due respect to In»N Out, Chick - Fil - A and Tyson, I don't need you to state your «morals» to know what you stand for — poisoning our country through your disgusting fat foods which makes our citizens obese and leads to a significantly higher risk to many deadly diseases.

We are witnessing a very major policy shift, with partisans on all sides making high - octane moral noises, and yet with few people fessing up to what is really happening.

ive been wrestling since i was 9 years old and when i went into high school i had to wrestle a girl... growing up learning to wrestle i had ended up having violent style, i never was dirty or broke rules but i was taught to do anything in your power to win whehter it was to club down the head or grab the throat to gain position etc. unfortunately i was in the postion to wrestle a girl once and at the time i did nt care who you were boy / girl, white / black / purple it did nt matter im was going to go out there bounce your head of the mat and bury you, so i went out there and wreslted the same way i always wrestled, 110 % and always to put your oppenents back through the mat i dditn change my style at all bc she was a girl i wrestled the same against everyone but after i pinned her in the first minute i did nt even realize that i broke her ribs when i power doubled through her, now after that for the rest of the tournament i was heckled and berated for forcefully beating a girl ppl were telling my parents «hey, looks like you raised a wife beater» etc. etc.... ever since then i refused to wrestle girls and thank go i eventually grew out of the lower weights, moral of the story is that is great and all that girls are wrestling but they shouldnt wrestle boys even if they know what they are getting into because 1.

One area of overlap and potential conflict is what sociologists call the problem of legitimacy, which includes among other things the question whether existing political authority is moral and right or whether it violates higher religious duties.

nice to see the catholic church yet again saying that their «moral high ground» is exactly what local laws permit them to get away with, no more.

I love the fact that Arsenal is a family orientated club where no matter what happens everyone will get a fair chance to prove themselves, be it because of a loss of form or recovery from long term injury or even when trying to break into the 1st team from the youth setup However I feel that new high profile signings such as Cech, Reus, (you add who you like) would lift the moral of the entire team and give many players the confidence in their teammates that is needed when going into big games.

I don't see what charging incredibly high ticket prices whilst penny - pinching in the transfer market had to do with good moral values.

It is now more difficult for the UK, a former imperial power and friend of what many Latin Americans see as the mother of all imperialists (read the U.S.) to retain the moral high ground.

Both have upheld the highest legal and moral standards a bloo bloo bloo What else does David Miliband have in common with the box of hair?

«What was interesting was the high moral the troops exhibited — the cheering from children, women and elderly; it was obvious that they have not seen this particular parade from the Nigerian military before, which in a strategic mission recaptured the town from the siege of Boko Haram Terrorists in 2015.»

Cupid.com brings people with high moral values and modern technologies together, as this is what modern world is about.

I want to meet new friends and get involved with a relationship that will be long term and truly show me what life true love is all about I am a man with high moral values but I don't let that stop me...

As depicted throughout the tense action thriller, doing things by the book is obviously the moral high route, but what is it actually accomplishing compared to more clandestine and nefarious methods, and more importantly, are crucial results worth becoming a monster for?

It is about building capacity and skill to be more emotionally self - aware (and authentic); to take the perspective of others; and, among many others skills, to reason why one should be moral (and to reflect on what is most conducive to the highest self - and collective good)...

Students look at various moral problems, assess what they think about them and then work out why they feel the way they do, using higher level thinking skills and independent work.

But just at the time when public universities seem to be taking more precautions against such knowledge (read: moral judgments) creeping into their curricula, evangelical high schools are being more aggressive in practicing what Carney refers to as the «integration of faith and learning.»

But Rogan is once again exploring themes of justice and what really constitutes the moral high ground — this time, through the story of a secretary at a munitions plant who discovers her boss is at the center of a high - level cover up.

She assumed her way was always the moral high ground and that she knew what was best for others.

Some of us like our heroes and heroines to be admirable holding to high moral standards or exemplary behavior, others look for characters they can identify with because of shared tastes or world views, and others want their characters to be compelling and capable of making the reader care what happens to them, often to the point of staying up way past bedtime to read just one more chapter.

Assuming what people thinks makes any difference — I've seen estimates that this thing may have cost Amazon something like 5 - 10 % of book sales among certain demographics who don't like what Amazon is doing, which is not nothing, if not exactly crippling — if Hachette is standing on the «we care about authors» moral high ground, Amazon is pretty much duty bound to point out why they are the ones who should be viewed as the Author's Friend.

Hughes told the Post that what happens at auctions shows that nobody has the moral high ground in America's puppy wars.

Michonne takes what the previous seasons have established and kicks it into an even higher gear with even more open and moral choices which can be the difference in trying to be peaceful or rebellious, taking revenge on a bandit or letting him live and committing a terrifying action with an ever narrowing window of time to make your decision which could potentially save the life of someone close to Michonne within her group as such moral decisions always draw a powerful emotional response from the player.

Voyage of Life is the finest and most celebrated example of what Cole called a «higher style of landscape,» through which he aimed to illustrate moral messages with the beauty of nature.

Given this consensus, all groups and individuals have a burden of demonstrating what justice would require of them in terms of emissions levels mindful that, as a starting point, all human beings should be entitled to equal per capita shares of safe emissions unless some higher level can be justified on moral grounds.

What people like me didn't like was people like you taking the moral high ground, on slender evidence at best, and insisting that everyone should change their lifestyles — because you are right.