| There is no doubt the moral question of how to balance relative evils in this case is a very difficult one. |
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| Such questions of moral validity, he continues, are best left in the domain of religion. |
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| Which is why we will, along with other weak-kneed pacifist nations, likely pay for the lack of moral fiber of our own politicians. |
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| But the acquisitive instinct fostered by capitalism would come to subvert the moral basis that initially allowed the system to flourish. |
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| They are accused of the act, lectured to, and forced to acknowledge the moral superiority of the accusers. |
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| Stalinism crippled us by castrating our moral passion, blinding us to the wrongs done to men if those wrongs were done in the name of Communism. |
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| In 1984 he moved to Canada, where he did a masters in divinity and licentiate in moral theology at the University of Toronto. |
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| In the shadowy world of guerrilla warfare the rules exist in a kind of moral no-man's land. |
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| When does the moral justification for activism no longer outweigh the fact that you're breaking the law? |
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| Giblets has joined me to contribute moral support in my hour of hunger striking. |
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| In place of moral vertigo what we get, especially in West's fine performance, is a mortified awareness of the wages of sin. |
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| I imagine many so-called moralists are secretly jealous of teens engaged in pleasure, as opposed to any serious moral valuation they may hold. |
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| We are merely at the end of the golden weather, living off the moral and economic inheritances we received from those hearty folk of old. |
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| Even in the rooting out of something as abominable as pedophilia, the play shows, other moral truths can be lost. |
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| An ability to penetrate the superficialities of the story and action to see the moral truths expressed therein. |
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| At the same time, if moral guidance is itself morally repugnant, then self-contempt is equally as abhorrent. |
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| The effect was to weld moral and political science into a new social science. |
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| Was I the only one that felt slightly queasy at the thought of Kenyon taking the moral high ground? |
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| His shrewd assessment of political reality was wedded to a belief in the necessity of moral idealism in human affairs. |
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| It is more or less reduced to Janus-faced etiquettes of the moral and grotesque body, placed by the author, as it seems, where most suitable. |
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| So, if you want to give up meat for moral reasons, but think you'll miss it, Quorn is a good solution. |
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| It is under neither a moral nor a legal obligation to give any weight to its predetermined decision. |
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| What miseries were endured, and what injustices were done, because well-intentioned leaders lacked the quality of moral quick-wittedness! |
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| No, no, no, I'm not saying that theistic beliefs are a prerequisite for coming up with a jim-dandy moral code. |
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| What will not work is to try to resolve the matter by using weasel words and sophistry to escape from a moral obligation. |
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| This film has not a trace of smugness, or the superiority of moral virtue which is blind to reality. |
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| Doctors may offload their ethical problems on clinical ethicists, abnegating their moral responsibilities too easily. |
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| He cannot envisage himself abdicating his moral responsibility in the matter. |
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| Leigh steers clear of the religious dimension, arguing that abortion is a human moral dilemma, not a religious conundrum. |
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| At present, that war is being won by mere force of arms, absent any moral justification. |
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| Identity is not a matter of physical or moral features, it is a question of space. |
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| These moral codes may be forces for good or forces for ill, but they clearly have survival power on their own account. |
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| At no time was an audience challenged to question a moral conundrum, or inspired to see the world through different eyes. |
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| There are numerous reasons to do so, not least the moral aspect Christie articulated at the Latino Leadership Alliance gala. |
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| In this light, shutting down the Government rather than bending on legislation becomes a moral imperative. |
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| Then, around the time of the American Revolution, it became a burning moral issue. |
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| Critics view the decision as an example of moral bankruptcy on the part of the administration. |
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| People have different ideas of what justice is, and their moral compasses are calibrated in different ways. |
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| There is a problem when governments try to impose their absolute moral standards on the whole of society, without taking into account people's individual circumstances. |
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| Neither the president's math nor his moral reasoning adds up. |
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| Invoking Wilberforce allows conservatives like DeMint to pretend that he, not Calhoun, is their moral lodestar and inspiration. |
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| For narrative complexity, Hideo Kojima's Metal Gear Solid series and Amy Hennig's Legacy of Kain games offer stories rich with nuance and complicated moral quandaries. |
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| In a pluralistic society religious, moral or cultural values put forward in a public governmental context cannot always be expected to meet with universal acceptance. |
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| In the 1970s, conservatives who had lost the moral battle on civil rights demanded exemptions to desegregation. |
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| What's missing is the anchoring of endangered species protection within the human and natural economy, rather than within absolutist, moral rhetoric. |
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| The arc of the moral universe is long, as Martin Luther King, Jr. said, but it bends toward justice. |
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| Resolving moral dilemmas is her daily work, and she does it with clarity and aplomb. |
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| The moral dilemmas of the early settlers are beyond the purview of this book. |
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| When a bowl game was at stake, even they were willing to abandon the moral high ground. |
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| What the records do reveal, however, is the moral anxiety and attitudes towards sexuality, family and social acceptance in the British colonies during the nineteenth century. |
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| He had a fine eye for moral hypocrisy, and I know that a glaring example of it would not have escaped his notice. |
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| Thus we see evil as being inextricably linked to moral absolutism, by the route of religion, which excludes understanding and is ultimately oppressive. |
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| I do have a certain amount of moral discomfort because of the situation with whaling. |
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| Is there any other government in the world to which brog outsources his own moral judgment in this way? |
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| It is his ability to merge moral sentiment, theological passion, and policy prescription that lights the fire of his rhetoric. |
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| It is always difficult for passionate moral minorities to operate in plural cultures because they have to learn to live alongside practices which they abominate. |
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| The moral quandaries, the psychological conundrums are deeper. |
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| De Niro's performance communicates his longing for normalcy so well that the movie doesn't need Bassett as the moral balance who tells him to quit jacking diamonds. |
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| Like African-American civil rights leaders, they have made not just a neutral case but a positive moral case for equality. |
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| The Jataka collections were transmitted orally for centuries, and when written down they took a form combined of verse, story, and moral commentary. |
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| The book explains the moral foundations on which her political career was built. |
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| This was an opportune moment to address the issue of the oppression of animals, until then catalogued in the annals of quixotry, as a serious moral problem. |
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| The cry that rose up into the night signaled a moral indictment no matter what the grand jury had said. |
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| It was also optimistic and in this way at least egalitarian, the moral sense and common sense being shared by all men and not merely the educated and well-born. |
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| That does not mean it is practical, advisable, tenable, moral or that it should be perpetual. |
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| A highly moral man by all accounts in his personal life, he is making a coldly pragmatic decision to do whatever it takes to win. |
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| It also was a showcase for moral bankruptcy, prompting thousands of its best and brightest citizens to flee abroad. |
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| Bratton might have said something that was closer to a real-world moral equivalence. |
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| But it remains a moral crime to vilify good cops who have made the city safe, saving thousands of lives. |
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| It frustrated her to hear other students discussing death as an abstraction, subject to simple moral rules. |
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| For far too long, we have been coasting on a moral authority to which we long ago lost any clear title. |
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| The moral duties and doubts of adulthood are swapped out for the histrionic creeds of adolescence. |
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| It is not moral absolutism but theological relativism we would do well to explore if our real need is for a God with whom we can engage our lives. |
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| She argued that capitalism should be supported on moral grounds, not just on the basis of practical benefits. |
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| Raz argues that law is authority, identifiable purely through social sources, without reference to moral reasoning. |
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| Aretaic moral theories such as contemporary virtue ethics emphasize the role of character in morality. |
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| But modern natural lawyers, such as John Finnis claim to be positivists, while still arguing that law is a basically moral creature. |
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| She believes that the moral fiber of our society is decaying. |
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| Although the relationship between intellectual property and human rights is a complex one, there are moral arguments for intellectual property. |
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| In the present study, Rabin examines the research supporting moral education from the standpoint of care ethics. |
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| It is affected by relativism, nihilism, multiculturalism, pacifism, anti-globalism, and, perhaps, a sense of moral weariness. |
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| A man who was merely a man and said the sort of things Jesus said would not be a great moral teacher. |
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| It is clear that Lord Steyn intended that a virtual or moral certainty test should necessarily lead to a finding of intention. |
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| During early modern Europe, a massive moral panic regarding witchcraft swept across Europe and later the European colonies in North America. |
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| Likewise, the discourses of the Buddha found in the Jatakas use the fable as a social, philosophical and moral narrative. |
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| We should reject any system that reduces moral decisions to a few algorithms. |
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| Man has to feel his way most cautiously in the quaggy soil of ignorance, suspense, superstition and moral darkness. |
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| The concept environmental determinism served as a moral justification for domination of certain territories and peoples. |
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| The traditional view is that moral culpability requires that one should have recognised or intended that one was acting wrongly. |
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| Afonso V appealed to the Pope for moral support of Portugal's right to a monopoly of trade in lands she discovered. |
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| Ormuz was said to be a Babel for its confusion of tongues, and for its moral abominations to match the cities of the Plain. |
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| In the United States, scientific racism justified Black African slavery to assuage moral opposition to the Atlantic slave trade. |
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| The government, courts and civil and criminal laws enforce a moral code established by Shari'ah. |
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| Some followed Pierre Bayle and argued that atheists could indeed be moral men. |
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| Sallust was expelled from the senate in 50 BC on moral grounds, but quickly revived his career by attaching himself to Julius Caesar. |
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| I think it's great that the wunderkinder at MIT are working on hand-held moral defibrillators. |
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| It demonstrates Paine's commitment to foundational liberal values of individual freedom and moral equality. |
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| Macbeth's generally accepted indebtedness to medieval tragedy is often seen as significant in the play's treatment of moral order. |
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| But our understanding of the moral and ethical realities of Rome in the 1st century BC would be much weaker if Sallust's works did not survive. |
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| Marriages break-up, lives collapse, and moral compasses go skewiff at the slightest sniff of a suitcase filled with wodge. |
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| He seeks to find a parsimonious basis for a moral beginning for society, a kind of natural law that everyone could accept. |
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| Livy believed that there had been a moral decline in Rome, and he lacked the confidence that Augustus could reverse it. |
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| We hope the church leaders can waken their fellow Alabamans to the moral damage done when forgiveness and justice are so ruthlessly denied. |
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| There are general causes, moral and physical, which act in every monarchy, elevating it, maintaining it, or hurling it to the ground. |
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| Bentham suggested a procedure for estimating the moral status of any action, which he called the Hedonistic or felicific calculus. |
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| Merchants found the moral and ethical teachings of Buddhism to be an appealing alternative to previous religions. |
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| Marriages break up, lives collapse and moral compasses go skew-whiff at the slightest sniff of a suitcase filled with wodge. |
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| Cruelty to a Jew is as odious as cruelty to any human being, whether that cruelty be moral in the form of insult, or physical. |
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| Williams argued that moral decisions must preserve our psychological identity and integrity. |
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| Furthermore, they demonstrate her conviction, a legacy from her father, that books should provide moral education. |
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| A similar school of thought that emerged in the early 20th century is ethical socialism, which makes the case for socialism on moral grounds. |
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| It can arouse aesthetic or moral feelings, and can be understood as a way of communicating these feelings. |
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| These last four instruments of unity have moral but not legislative authority over individual provinces. |
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| This sense of moral duty and the need to record it, are more evident in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. |
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| Marlowe's subject matter is different from Shakespeare's as it focuses more on the moral drama of the renaissance man than any other thing. |
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| Animals are not moral creatures and are not responsible for their actions. |
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| Casuistry is a method of case reasoning especially useful in treating cases that involve moral dilemmas. |
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| Blyton felt a responsibility to provide her readers with a positive moral framework, and she encouraged them to support worthy causes. |
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| Adam Smith acknowledged deep moral ambiguities towards the system of capitalism. |
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| In the second and subsequent editions Malthus put more emphasis on moral restraint as the best means of easing the poverty of the lower classes. |
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| The stories are fables, using animals in an anthropomorphic manner to give moral lessons. |
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| They gave pride of place to such moral issues as sportsmanship and fair play. |
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| Deeply religious, Gladstone brought a new moral tone to politics, with his evangelical sensibility and his opposition to aristocracy. |
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| By the early 1790s,Owen's entrepreneurial spirit, management skills, and progressive moral views were emerging. |
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| Although moral arguments did play a secondary role, they usually had major resonance when used as a strategy to undercut competitors' profits. |
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| Nevertheless, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri argue that it was neither a strictly economic nor moral matter. |
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| He not only proposed many legal and social reforms, but also expounded an underlying moral principle on which they should be based. |
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| He was equally fortunate in the harmony that existed between his intellectual and moral natures. |
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| The Royal Commission had investigated not only the working hours and conditions of the children, but also their moral state. |
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| We are so governed by our temporal absorptions and adventurisms that we ignore moral and spiritual considerations. |
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| She approaches ubuntu as a moral maxim that is actualized in relationships, a historical process that leads to community transformation. |
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| Attending to theological echoes finds support in Wesley's conjunctive theology and his study of affectional moral psychology. |
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| The British moral philosopher John Stuart Mill also came to advocate a form of economic socialism within a liberal context. |
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| In the modern Western world, witchcraft accusations have often accompanied the satanic ritual abuse moral panic. |
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| Dictation of thought in the absence of all control exercised by reason, outside of all aesthetic and moral preoccupation. |
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| The moral dilemma thrown up by this terrorist proposal was just as gripping, if not more so, than the whizzbang action of this intelligent hokum. |
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| A liberal education combines an education in the classics, English literature, the humanities, and moral virtues. |
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| Unitarians believe in the moral authority but not necessarily the divinity of Jesus. |
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| The moral to this anomaly may be that Zeitgeister are unreliable because afflicted with tunnel vision. |
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| Humans have historically tended to separate civilization from wildlife in a number of ways including the legal, social, and moral sense. |
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| He also insisted on a high moral standard of conduct for laity and clergy alike. |
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| Other founding fathers like James Madison had no ancestral connection but were imbued with ideas drawn from Scottish moral philosophy. |
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| A Greek bailout, however, may set the stage for subsequent bailouts in other economically troubled nations, creating a risk of moral hazard. |
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| Descartes's second-order moral principles necessitate an account of willable ends that are other than virtue and that are knowable as true goods. |
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| Substitution is not alienation, for the self is anarchically called to be a moral self. |
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| Smith entered the University of Glasgow when he was fourteen and studied moral philosophy under Francis Hutcheson. |
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| George's mother, now the Dowager Princess of Wales, preferred to keep George at home where she could imbue him with her strict moral values. |
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| Moral obligation is not necessitation. The moral law commands but does not coerce us. |
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| The epistles of Seneca, with their moral or philosophical ruminations, influenced later patristic writers. |
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| Smith obtained a professorship at Glasgow teaching moral philosophy and during this time wrote and published The Theory of Moral Sentiments. |
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| Living in apartheid South Africa, as I did, was easy in moral terms. |
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| But it is the intention, that is, the foresight of consequences, which constitutes the moral rightness or wrongness of the act. |
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| Louis' secular power was much weaker than Henry's but Louis now had the moral advantage. |
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| If a being suffers, there can be no moral justification for refusing to take that suffering into consideration. |
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| And the severity of the blow is greatly aggravated in moral effect by the fact that it is dealt only to a handful of individuals. |
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| The moral is a lash at the vanity of arrogating that to ourselves which succeeds well. |
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| His strengths were an instinctive ability to lead and train his men, and his moral authority. |
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| Others argue that a moral theory that is so contrary to our deeply held moral convictions must either be rejected or modified. |
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| Anecdotes from this character's life preserve Sicilian culture as well as convey moral messages. |
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| In the same way, moral evil, or vice, is proportionate to the number of people made to suffer. |
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| The moral impulse of utilitarianism is constant, but our decisions under it are contingent on our knowledge and scientific understanding. |
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| But, from the moral point of view, pain cannot be outweighed by pleasure, and especially not one man's pain by another man's pleasure. |
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| If it is no more than a moral discourse, he may preach it and they may hear it, and yet both continue unconverted heathens. |
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| In other words, according to the theory, it is a moral good to breed more people on the world for as long as total happiness rises. |
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| He insisted on scripture, teaching and education, and on improving the clergy's moral standards. |
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| Influenced by Ovid's Metamorphoses, the poems show the guilt and moral confusion that result from uncontrolled lust. |
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| It is the utility of any moral rule alone, which constitutes the obligation of it. |
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| Monsma, connect these ideas to the abdication of religion as a higher moral authority. |
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| Many others like Voltaire held that without belief in a God who punishes evil, the moral order of society was undermined. |
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| Miliband also said Labour did not do enough to tackle moral problems during its 13 years in office. |
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| The deeply religious Gladstone brought a new moral tone to politics with his evangelical sensibility and opposition to aristocracy. |
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| Stewart's course on moral philosophy embraced, besides ethics proper, lectures on political philosophy or the theory of government. |
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| Peers also concluded that pay restraint in the NHS over an extended period is a factor in low staff moral and in staff leaving. |
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| According to this view, rational discussion about metaphysical ideas, about moral values and even about purposes is possible. |
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| Mill not only viewed actions as a core part of utility, but as the directive rule of moral human conduct. |
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| His philosophical works were the basis of moral philosophy during the Middle Ages. |
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| Since then, it has been used as a term of abuse by those opposed to what they think are the moral consequences of evolution. |
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| It has been argued that Chalmers was both a paternalist, on the moral plane, and a supporter of economic individualism. |
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| I answer by saying that I have worked too long and hard now against segregated public accommodations to end up segregating my moral concern. |
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| Moreover, attempting to reduce one problem, say adverse selection by mandating insurance, may add to another, say moral hazard. |
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| Unitarians believe that Jesus was inspired by God in his moral teachings and is a savior but a human being rather than a deity. |
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| Industry, frugality, calling, discipline, and a strong sense of responsibility are at the heart of their moral code. |
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| Davis is out to remove the slur of moral uptightness and narrow virtue from Malamuds reputation. |
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| Similar to Beowulf, Judith conveys a moral tale of heroic triumph over monstrous beings. |
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| However, the critical moral thinking underpins and informs the more intuitive moral thinking. |
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| The belief in heterogeneous or ability grouping has often been accompanied by ethical and moral arguments. |
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| He argued that such a training would form artists capable of creating works of high moral and artistic worth. |
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| In Ancient Greece, pacifism seems not to have existed except as a broad moral guideline against violence between individuals. |
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| Scholars have criticized IBR plans on the grounds that they create moral hazard and suffer from adverse selection. |
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| A culture's collective mythology helps convey belonging, shared and religious experiences, behavioral models, and moral and practical lessons. |
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| Education writer Richard Wright considers that Hume's position rejects a famous moral puzzle attributed to French philosopher Jean Buridan. |
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| He spoke of the horrors of the Congo, from the moral and physical shock of which he said he had never recovered. |
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| Yet many definitions contained outdated scientific theories, historical information, and moral values. |
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| The islands' governments had a legal and moral requirement to do their best for the population of the islands. |
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| We notice that Racine's Phaedra, like Euripides', displays high moral dignity because she considers her passion for Hippolytus to be abominable. |
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| There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil. |
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| This may focus on intellectual, cognitive, neural, social, or moral development. |
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| He was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh, where he read mathematics and moral philosophy under Adam Ferguson. |
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| He only denies that sincere attention to moral considerations has any place in politics as far as the unduped are concerned. |
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| In Angela, a cruel and malicious angel, Gaiman introduced a character who threatened Spawn's existence, as well as providing a moral opposite. |
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| In Book VI, Polybius describes the political, military, and moral institutions that allowed the Romans to succeed. |
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| The article compared Fleming unfavourably with John Buchan and Raymond Chandler on both moral and literary criteria. |
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| George Orwell named him as one of the writers he most admired, despite disagreeing with him on almost every moral and political issue. |
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| Stories were offered as allegedly true recent histories, not for the sake of scandal but strictly for the moral lessons they gave. |
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| Women, in his view, feel less abhorrence for moral evil, though they are concerned with its outward consequences. |
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| He connects a nation's success with its high level of morality, and conversely a nation's failure with its moral decline. |
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| Ruskin admired beauty, but believed it must be allied with, and applied to, moral good. |
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| But the comments of most of these novelists are the record of their continual surprisings by the varieties of moral and aesthetic truths. |
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| Epicurus, though his ethic seemed to others swinish and lacking in moral exultation, was very much in earnest. |
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| Meiner studied the physical, mental and moral characteristics of each race, and built a race hierarchy based on his findings. |
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| The preservation of a high moral tone is obviously of paramount importance. |
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| Famed for his piety and his remarkably mild and just reign, John was an exceptional example of a moral ruler at a time when cruelty was the norm. |
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| He set about establishing a set of British expectations, whose moral foundation would, in his opinion, warrant the empire. |
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| The new literary field of the moral guide to business ethics was developed during the late Ming period, for the readership of the merchant class. |
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| Roxanna narrates the moral and spiritual decline of a high society courtesan. |
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| Religion, ritual, art, moral regulation have been sundered out of their original fusion, appreciated for a moment, and then dispensed. |
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| Secular concepts and reasoning of this kind belong to first philosophy and moral doctrine, and fall outside the domain of the political. |
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| He declared that henceforth the moral reform of the Church would be the sole object of his life. |
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| However there are moral ramifications upon which a mere gelotologist, or student of laughter, would not be prepared to pass judgment. |
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| Cabezas should be literate in Spanish and have good moral character and property. |
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| While Robinson Crusoe is far more than a guide, it shares many of the themes and theological and moral points of view. |
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| Personal memories created in him a great sensitivity for human degradation and a sense of moral responsibility. |
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| The thanadar had specified that he be taught moral principles along with the Erewhonian language. |
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| That had to give them an enormous reservoir of moral strength and solace. |
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| I was very grateful to my sister who came along with me to the psychologist as moral support. |
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| Yet the latter, 'and his works, shall eternally coendure with the former, and the unoriginated principles of his moral nature! |
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| There exists no moral system under which there do not arise unequivocal cases of conflicting obligation. |
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| He attacked moral corruption and in the process he named individuals who were the targets of his denunciations. |
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| Those valuable classes of men who take the deepest interest in whatever appears to be connected with the moral order of the world. |
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| They are calculated to unhinge and subvert the whole frame and moral order of society. |
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| When Mr. Marsden, the mill's overseer, tells the superintendent of the factory that Lyddie did not have moral turpitude. |
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| Much more powerful than moral enthusiasm is the disinclination of the immaculate flesh to risk the soilure of the streets. |
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| By thinking in these terms, we acknowledge all persons as irreplaceable and self-sufficient members of the moral order. |
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| It proscribes conduct perceived as threatening, harmful, or otherwise endangering to the property, health, safety, and moral welfare of people. |
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| We're confident she has the moral fiber to make the right decision. |
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| Under the moral standards then enforced by the film industry, their relationship had to be kept from public view. |
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| John Stuart Mill... was not long in proving that the moral minimum of wages was a myth. |
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| Blyton felt she had a responsibility to provide her readers with a strong moral framework, so she encouraged them to support worthy causes. |
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| George, Molly's husband, gives him a golden opportunity, but he and Clive argue furiously about the moral responsibility of the act. |
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| Their heroism lay in their creative energy in the face of these difficulties, not in their moral perfection. |
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| Manusmriti has numerous verses on duties a person has towards himself and to others, thus including moral codes as well as legal codes. |
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| Yet, the text balances its moral tone as an appeal to one's conscience, states Olivelle. |
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| The nation is the form of a moral order as surely as is the family or the church. |
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| In this Carlyle tried to show how a heroic leader can forge a state, and help create a new moral culture for a nation. |
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| Eisenhower to serve as a moral code for United States service members who have been taken prisoner. |
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| Notions of an objective moral order, external to human legal systems, underlie natural law. |
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| A second problem about taking stories as moral examples is their specificness. |
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| He steered by the guidance of his own peculiar moral compass, regardless of the rough waters through which it led him. |
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| In his book Law's Empire Dworkin attacked Hart and the positivists for their refusal to treat law as a moral issue. |
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| Thus, when the military breaches the existing political order, it will be forced to claim a moral authority for its actions. |
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| He described his educational aims as being the cure of souls first, moral development second, and intellectual development third. |
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| Ministers of State advise the Sovereign in delicate situations, with moral authority but without formal competence. |
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| Colonial society was largely divided over the religious and moral implications of slavery and colonies passed acts for and against the practice. |
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| The utilitarians believed in the moral worth of an education that aided the good of society and promoted instruction in useful knowledge. |
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| The three rivals also share some similar values, with all three embracing a humanist philosophy emphasizing moral behavior and human perfection. |
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| Victims of palpable injustice enjoy a moral authority that is likely to provide access to even busy players. |
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| Yet, a number of authors, including Lin Yutang, have argued that some moral and ethical tenets of these religions are similar. |
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| However, This could not be revealed by mere display of skill, and must be an expression of the artist's whole moral outlook. |
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| The development of the market economy involved coercion, exploitation and violence that Adam Smith's moral philosophy could not countenance. |
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| Following reports from missionaries, there was growing moral outrage, particularly in Britain and the United States. |
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| Human nature has an innate tendency towards goodness, but moral rightness cannot be instructed down to the last detail. |
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| They are distinct from moral codes that may apply to the culture, education, and religion of a whole society. |
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| The people adopted the government they had framed, and thus gave it its moral authority. |
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| While the Dalai Lama is lauded in much of the world as a figure of moral authority, Beijing reviles the 1989 Nobel Peace Prize laureate. |
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| Santa is not only a moral authority, like a strict father, but he is also like a nurturing parent, traditionally, a mother. |
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| To every sane man in all climes and ages the great Creator has given a moral compass to enable him to avoid the wrong and follow the right. |
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| This is embodied in the sovereignty of the general will, the moral and collective legislative body constituted by citizens. |
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| They promoted the use of Norse mythology as the subject of high art and other ethnological and moral aims. |
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| His heroines never have a true anagnorisis because the moral fault is never in themselves, only in outside conspirators. |
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| They hustle and scheme without moral compass, trying to survive by making accommodations that are at best temporary, more often delusional. |
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| Its conception is entirely independent of the moral sense of the concipient, and may be said to be the objective apprehension. |
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| It is not murderous venom that courses in black veins but loving tolerance for the stranger, which is the central moral imperative of the Gospel. |
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| To research a possible link between US bombardment and rates of birth defects and pediatric cancer in Iraq is a moral imperative. |
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| His themes often center on the inherent evil and sin of humanity, and his works often have moral messages and deep psychological complexity. |
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| What I called blood libel was the charge that Pope Pius XII, and my church, were moral accessories to mass murder. |
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| There are no laws about queueing, but there is a powerful moral imperative not to cheat. |
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| Human culture always implies moral order, and human persons are inescapably moral agents. |
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| Moreover, Arnhart points out that both the proponents and critics of biotechnology are compelled to appeal to our natural moral sense. |
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| He approached the moral dilemma casuistically, not abstractly from first principles. |
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| The moral order embraces the totality of our duties towards God, towards ourselves, and towards our neighbours. |
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| So also the apostle expresses this great change as a new creation, or renewing, that is, being made again, or anew, after a moral order. |
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| The same awful impressions excited by the divine threatenings and punishments recorded in Scripture, and by the moral order of the world. |
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| The implicit guarantee by the US federal government created a moral hazard and contributed to a glut of risky lending. |
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| The imagination...may of course engage us in pursuits utterly inconsistent with the moral order of things. |
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| He here, with remarkable dexterity, shifts the question from the moral order of our world to the general order of the universe. |
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| Although I'm not passionate about this issue, I'm willing to attend the rally to give moral support. |
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| We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters. |
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| However, the emphasis on the moral and political orientation of the ecocritic and the broad specification of the field of study are essential. |
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| These were on a number of topics, everything from medical advice to moral judgments. |
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| In contrast, MacDonald's Gibbie is not only a moral prodigy, but also a Mozart of religious sensibility. |
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| Proper moral conduct, good deeds, righteousness, and good character come within the sphere of the moral guidelines. |
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| In this disquisition of the third book Plato is concerned with the moral effects of artistic representation on the youth of his state. |
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| It also figures in Confucian writings as at the heart of moral action, including in the Mencius and the Doctrine of the Mean. |
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| It is responsible for formulating and, if necessary, reformulating the general moral rules. |
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| In another case an etheromaniac earl committed extravagances which, from a moral point of view, classified him among mental deficients. |
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| This embarge is termed a moral one because it imposes no legal restraints upon would-be exporters, for there are no statutes providing for this. |
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| Considering the evaluativeness of morality, this self-report of moral decision-making may be especially prone to biased self-report. |
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| He'd begin with a premise and wrap it up at the end, full circle, the moral of the story hanging on the last word of the last line. |
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| Critics may oppose the nuclear freeze for what they regard as moral reasons. |
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| In the later part of the 18th and through the 19th century, criticism centred on debates over the moral message of the play. |
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