Sentences with phrase «with moral judgment»

Therefore, this raises a crucial issue — the moral free riders who evade the cost associated with moral judgment (e.g. by not paying taxes for police and court) are better off than those who shoulder the cost.

Hardness of heart is not the same thing as rejection, and has nothing whatsoever to do with a moral judgment.

The immediate take - away that the American democratic experiment is in deep trouble — and that trouble has something to do with moral judgment.

applies to be sure only where law is created not by some arbitrary decree but by a process which can reflect the public mind, 43 But where this process exists, the man who finds the law lying across his path is confronted not only with a political power but with a moral judgment.

But, fortunately, in the United States we almost always side with the moral judgment of the parents if the parents wish to seek further treatment.

Not exact matches

We risk handing to corporations a very potent weapon if we arm them with the moral license to pass judgment on our off - the - job behaviour.

Your tracker may not be offering moral support (or judgments), but it's tracking your movements all the same and sharing them with the world.

If we withhold those judgments, we fail to engage with Muslims as men and women capable of moral agency.

With the victims of lung cancer we have the good sense to respond at the point of human suffering rather than the point of moral judgment.

How does he feel entitled to make any claim to be a better Catholic than Santorum (for that is what he's implicitly claiming) on questions that the church rightly leaves to the prudential judgment of voters and public officials, within broad boundaries, when in the next breath he confesses his complete failure to be any kind of Catholic at all on a question on which the church speaks with categorical moral authority?

Atheist morality is without any objective basis and, if followed with integrity, doesn't allow them to act against others who act contrary to their moral system (as they insist that each subjective moral judgment is equal in value, all being based purely on individual feelings).

When faced with a moral problem like sexual assault, a university culture quickly shifts to «critical thinking» rather than moral judgment.

And I suppose at this point I must point out what should be common knowledge: If secular thinkers believe they can take the measure of traditional moral and religious concepts with the callow judgment that they are comparable to geocentrism, they are simply mistaken.

No less than other stories in the Jacob cycle, it reflects the background of the patriarchal age — frictions between groups (Hamor and Jacob); a level of sexual morality beyond the reach of our judgment and in any judgment ennobled by the integrity of Hamor and the love of his son for Dinah; the effort on the part of both families to effect a peaceful settlement honoring the religious sensibilities of the abused; the despicable violation of the terms of agreement by two of Jacob's sons; and finally, in perfect consonance with the general character of Jacob, his sharp rebuke of his sons not on moral but on utilitarian grounds:

On the other hand, the chief problem with the view of the new reformers is that it fails to recognize that a sexual self, liberated from undertakings that have a moral claim upon it prior to any of its particular intentions and choices, has no satisfactory way to make moral judgments about what it intends, chooses, promises, and then undertakes.

When a crisis comes, such as when gays fall ill with AIDS, they can easily be victimized by traditional homophobia disguised as moral judgment and, as a result, fall back into self - condemnation and self - hatred.

The purpose is to examine the value judgments and moral reasonings that inform current debates and practices, and to reflect on their similarities and dissimilarities with the Holocaust.

President Carter's announcement at Notre Dame in 1977 that Americans had gotten over their «inordinate fear of communism»» together with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance's statement that Carter and Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev shared «similar dreams and aspirations about the most fundamental issues»» demonstrated that the degradation of moral judgment into moral posturing could coexist with breathtaking strategic myopia (and indeed moral blindness) in minds for which the evocation of the specter of Vietnam marked an end to moral reasoning, or indeed any other form of reasoning.

Where the Council was not teaching on matters of faith and morals, such as where it was describing contemporary conditions or offering recommendations for renewal, its statements are to be received with respect and gratitude but are not necessarily flawless in either their factual accuracy or their prudential judgment.

More recently, in 1996 when this journal pointedly addressed judicial usurpation in a way that raised the question of the legitimacy of the political order as it presently functions, Commentary reacted with alarm to the suggestion that all polities and parties are subject to transcendent moral judgment.

I mean no moral judgment here when I say that, sociologically speaking, these are oddball faith communities: small, distinctive minorities, with decidedly out - of - the - mainstream religious beliefs.

For example, the editors noted that the game of football contributed greatly to the «morals of student life» with the qualities of discipline, courage, judgment and loyalty it inspired (November 27, 1913).

So, though I believe that the primary note in Jesus, understanding of the kingdom was the rule of God with a moral and spiritual message of the judgment, yet the loving kindness of God and of God's call to faithful obedience in all things, I do not believe that this prophetic note makes it necessary to reject wholly the apocalyptic.

Without reflecting on the motives or the moral integrity of these authors, one must differ radically with their judgment.

Before the individual can be properly related to the community and be a force of union and liberation for others, the individual must conquer the forces of moral disintegration in himself; he must be at peace with himself; he must conquer fear, hate suspicion, false judgments, ignorance, prejudice, etc..

Whereas scientific judgment depends upon regularities, moral judgment must cope with singulars.

In history man meets himself, and in his encounter with history he encounters again, magnified into superhuman proportions, the fallibility of his intellectual understanding and moral judgment that prevents him from completely understanding and adequately judging both history and himself.

It shouldn't be surprising that apologists will defend biblical chattel slavery given they are equally willing to defend the slaughter of children and infants; completely disregarding any notion of judgment based on an exercise of free will, completely disregarding any notion of empathy for their suffering, and with complete rejection of any personal moral culpability in offering their various incarnations of a Nuremberg defense by placing their self - serving deference to perceived authority over any and all other moral considerations.

They associate it with a liberalism that is purely «procedural,» that prescinds from moral tradition or judgment.

Hence we require a structure of moral and legal principles with the agencies of courts, legislatures, and political processes which establish laws in the light of the judgment of the people about their needs.

Intellectuals do not have better moral judgment than people with little or no education, they do not live more wisely, they are certainly not more compassionate, they have not fewer but different superstitions, and they are capable of the most mindless fanaticisms.

In other quarters it is the specifically ethical aspect which commands almost exclusive attention — conduct, moral judgments, philanthropy, the Christian social order, and the like, The advocates of the respective views are often severe with one another.

In affirming the traditional teaching, and rejecting the proportionalist methodology of moral judgment, Professor Arkes and I stand with the Pope.

Complex moral decisions made with the counsel of family, friends and medical professionals are of quite a different order from the lonely judgment reached by someone for whom life is «no longer worth living.»

It would seem, then, that we are left with no basis for making our moral judgments and decisions that is in any way genuinely moral.

Surely this approach is preferable to regarding God as having specific moral judgments completely congruent with our own.

People with broad human sympathies and deep feelings are often reluctant to make moral judgments about others and often feel that morality is a cold and heartless business.

Above all, moral judgment involves living with ambiguity.

The older I get and the more I learn, the less qualified I become to make correct moral judgments; that may not stop me from having to make them — an event must be assessed before it can be blessed — but I have learned with hindsight that with all the goodwill in the world I may be wrong, and it is only by offering my judgments to God that they can be redeemed and blessed.

Moral maturity, at the human level, arises when one can emotionally sympathize, perhaps even suffer, with another and still make an independent moral judgment of him.

Can we expect correct moral judgments to come from a society that considers it harmless entertainment to find such things as video links on this very website to «Kate Upton weightless in a bikini,» rather than to see it for what it is as a disgusting, childlike fascination with things that should be left alone.

Certainly he will be forced to renounce every moral imperative with a transcendent ground, and this means that he must forswear the possibility of an absolute moral law, and at best look upon all forms of moral judgment as penultimate ways which must inevitably act as barriers to the full realization of energy and life.

Reading his lively account of the scholars who excavate and display the Middle Ages, an account replete with cultural history, moral judgment, psychological speculation, gossip, and no small amount of romantic idealism and fin - de-siecle pathos, the reader can reflect as much upon his own world, and about the character of Cantor himself, as he does about the painstaking task of historical reconstruction that absorbed the lives of such as Theodor Mommsen, Marc Bloch, or David Knowles.

With respect to history and moral judgment, the New York Times was and is on the wrong side, and stays there with pitiable consisteWith respect to history and moral judgment, the New York Times was and is on the wrong side, and stays there with pitiable consistewith pitiable consistency.

«The problem with the religious solution [for mysteries such as consciousness and moral judgments] was stated by Mencken when he wrote, «Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.»

But for those concerned with rendering nuanced and informed» that is to say, accurate» moral judgments, considerations beyond mere numbers will always be at least as important.

Some people are morally opposed to termination of babies with Down syndrome, especially because the condition doesn't usually cause life - threatening health problems, and thus people's moral judgments on termination may extend to the amniocentesis test because the test can be a catalyst for people deciding to terminate their pregnancies.

But even invited speakers seemed aware of the shadow hanging over Albany, including Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, who opened the Senate session with a prayer noting that humans are «weak and short - lived, lacking in comprehension and judgment,» and its elected representatives seemingly desperately in need of a moral primer.

In April neuroscientist Liane Young and her colleagues at MIT and Harvard University reported that they had altered people's moral judgments using transcranial magnetic stimulation, a procedure that briefly disrupts neural processing with a magnetic field induced by electric current.

Even though the disgust response arose for reasons that have little to do with morality, it seems to be pretty effective at shaping moral judgments.»