Sentences with phrase «wrongness of»

(usually used with a singular verb) that branch of philosophy dealing with values relating to human conduct, with respect to the rightness and wrongness of certain actions and to the goodness and badness of the motives and ends of such actions.

Start by having a candid talk with your children about the wrongness of yelling and why manifesting your anger that way is not healthy.

Since the transgression, Debbie has assumed a sense of moral superiority, believing that Marc has never fully owned up to the wrongness of his behavior.

It takes great courage to not take sides and stand up for the dignity of all instead of focusing on the rightness of one and the wrongness of the other.

The unfairness and wrongness of racial discrimination will out in the language used.

Mine are claryfications on the wrongness of Neutrino's essay and misuse of formulas that doesn't apply to the case.

Kant proposed that we judge the rightness or wrongness of an act, such as breaking a promise, by considering what happens if everyone does it.

Odd, isn't it, that exaggerated water vapour feedback, is so key to the wrongness of nearly all of them.

The averaging is to reduce the width of the error in the wrongness of it all, not to make the output correct.

There seems to be no call for evidence regarding the rightness or wrongness of intervening in this way, whether or not climate change is happening.

There is also the «false balance» ideology, which entails demanding dominance based on the alleged total wrongness of the opponent.

In the old times this grouping together generally involved using blunt weapons to show to others the wrongness of their ways.

This power of the artist's hand to deliver constantly elements of so - called chance or accident, which nevertheless belong to a well defined, personal class of forms and groupings, is submitted to critical control by the artist who is alert to the rightness or wrongness of the elements delivered spontaneously, and accepts or rejects them.

Nothing better illustrates the wrongness of that strategy than the recovery in Subaru's fortunes since it returned to its roots.

Or did he act out of his upright sense of right and wrong, his belief in both the rightness of the FBI and the wrongness of the Richard Nixon presidency?

A spoiler - filled discussion of the narrative tricks of Denis Villeneuve's Sicario and a brief consideration of the rightness and wrongness of bio-picking Steve Jobs make up this latest episode of Mamo...

How you see the rightness or wrongness of what unfolds depends so much on what you, as a viewer, bring belief-wise to the movie.

If his amusing story about a resourceful ex-slave seeking vengeance against his tormenters happens to convey a message about the absurd moral wrongness of racism and slavery, well, that's cool.

If you can get past the fundamental wrongness of that image, Land of the Lost is an enjoyable regression to Saturday mornings gone by, as junky and sweet as a strawberry Pop - Tart.

Whether it's binging on a decadent chocolate cake or spending a whole weekend in front of the TV, we feel the shame and wrongness of it because we judge ourselves as wrong...

It's about abuse of power and the wrongness of arresting politicians for exposing government failings.

The de facto popularity of the monarchy over Republican anti-monarchy efforts does not negate the inherent wrongness of esteeming an inherited class position of monarch over theoretical and legal equality of all British citizens, including the Windsor family.

I always had the impression that fear of legal repercussions and not the intrinsic wrongness of the action stopped them.

Certainly professors in the humanities, like professors in the sciences, retain, as they must, a belief in the possibility of apolitical knowledge and in some moral values (for instance, the wrongness of cheating or the rightness of hard work).

But we could not cease to believe that what we had seen from our perspective was also there to be seen, even if concentrating on that had dulled our awareness of the wrongness of our basic social situation.

As to the article's ethical deficiencies, he says that «the gist of the article is that harvesting for laboratory experiments can be clearly separated from the rightness or wrongness of abortion.»

For both Chomsky and Hitchens, the only categories that exist for understanding are the categories of contemporary political discourse - which leaves utterly unexplained both the blood spilled and the essential wrongness of its spilling.

@Shadowcandy — so, the wrongness of being gay caused you to click on the link and enjoy this fine article?

Act - oriented sexual ethics had dominated most of the Christian tradition, bearing the assumption that the rightness or wrongness of a particular sexual expression could be ascertained by the intrinsic value or disvalue of the action itself, without serious consideration of the relational context.

However, for Limbaugh to blast the Pope on making a political statement using religion and the wrongness of that act, then how come it plays such a large part in US Politics?

Repentance becomes the recognition of the fact that a state of mind and a way of life, the wrongness of which we were once unaware... is now known to us to be sinful.

By doing so he acknowledges the wrongness of death, the bitter pain that it brings, and the reality of its sting....

A person who has married another in an adulterous marriage who is a believer but God has brought to his or her senses about the wrongness of that marriage, may realize that he or she has willfully sinned against A command of God.

This is a negative responsibility in which she declares the wrongness of an economic theory, for example, if it obstructs belief in Christ.

Iraq — meaning the rightness or wrongness of U.S. policy in Iraq — was not raised in the conversation, according to sources in both the White House and the Vatican.

Social critic Ernest van den Haag argues that any attempt to establish the moral wrongness of the death penalty must show that no crime ever deserves capital punishment; that is, he says, opponents of capital punishment must disprove the contention that there at least some convicted criminals who morally deserve execution.

It prescinds, however, from the substance of the moral questions involved» the rightness or wrongness of slavery or legalized abortion and euthanasia as a matter of public policy.

If Wallis's opposition is truly principled (or «prophetic») then we can expect Wallis and the Sojourners crowd to offer up a reasoned and articulate public argument for the moral wrongness of including this particular «health care procedure.»

The church should be ready to expose the fallaciousness of social myths by which the injustices of a society are perpetuated and to suggest ways of action which demonstrate the wrongness of such fantasies.

But the change liberated him, and gave him peace of soul: «The obvious unnaturalness and therefore wrongness of homosexual practice had been troubling me for years.»

I wonder what role «prosperity theology» has played in: (a) creating the mess we're in; and (b) preventing pastors from preaching about the wrongness of the growing gap between rich and poor.

There are perfunctory references to the moral ambiguities involved, but the gist of the article is that such harvesting for laboratory experiments can be clearly separated from the rightness or wrongness of abortion, can advance medical developments useful to the already born, and therefore should be approved.

We send criminals to jail instead to achieve social justice, and their sentences are deliberately measured in time behind bars: Offenders must be withdrawn from society for a period sufficient to allow them to realize the wrongness of their actions» and sufficient to protect society from them until they learn that lesson.

One could argue that confessing a sin means acknowledging the wrongness of an act or motivation.

But if we understand and accept the wrongness of these acts He is willing to forgive them.

Jesus was not interested in theories of property or of the rightness or wrongness of possessions.

Blair worries that prioritizing the wrongness of gay marriage will make us seem anti-gay.

As a matter of prudence, prioritizing the wrongness of same - sex marriage over divorce or contraception (or even masturbation) only serves to reinforce the claim that Christians are motivated by some kind of anti-gay animus when they defend traditional marriage laws.

So they start a controversy and threaten a boycott and they don't see the wrongness of their thinking.

The institutionalists are concerned less with the rightness or wrongness of homosexuality and related issues than with the future of the denomination.