Search results for "Moral questions" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • foremost living authority on canon law and moral theology. He was consulted ... professor Sissela Bok in her book Lying: Moral Choice in Public and Private ...
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  • was convinced that true knowledge and moral virtues are inscribed within ... task of philosophy and fought against moral relativists such as the Sophists ...
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  • and experiences. We should always honor moral worth, wherever we find it ... creating a strong sense of honor as a guiding moral principle. ...
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  • insights from physics and biology to questions of objectivity in such ... the implications of his carefully crafted moral and political theory in a ...
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  • Christian measures, and mourned Rome’s moral decline. His reflection on ... events to which he was a witness, raised questions about impartiality. He ...
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  • an English bishop, theologian, apologist, moral philosopher and the author ... age of 22 secretly wrote to Clarke with questions regarding the proofs of ...
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  • Among the questions, we have been challenged for millenia, are: What ... heroic glorification, sympathy, anger, moral or religious condemnation. ...
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  • example is the idea of merit, a human’s moral and ethical performance which ... *Questions on the Metaphysics of Aristotle *Quaestiones Quodlibetales ...
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  • Grotius removed natural law from the jurisdiction of moral theologians ... raised many philosophical and theological questions, and politically Grotius ...
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  • debate because the concept of a right is a moral concept and so belongs to ... given Descartes’s ethics in his seminal moral work The Passions of the ...
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  • speech). It arms the individual with moral power rather than physical ... means to an end. This end usually implies a moral upliftment or progress of ...
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  • and sports as a means of cultivating moral character and spirituality ... as the koan (meditation on paradoxical questions) to achieve this end. Rinzai ...
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  • after death, on the grounds that such questions were not useful for pursuing ... (atman) not only negates the activities of moral life but also falls in a ...
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  • spirituality. It has been said that his moral philosophy, including the ... from ontological to epistemological questions, gradually restricting ...
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  • study on the Security Council, examining questions of membership, organization ... Kelsen maintained, however, that unlike moral norms, legal norms are products ...
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  • – 479 B.C.E. It is a complex system of moral, social, political, and religious ... not by tradition, but rather by a constant moral guide that paralleled utilitarianism ...
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  • the modern concept of warfare, they raise questions regarding the ethics of ... the same time they raise ethical and moral questions. Controversy erupted ...
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  • unified view, accounting for both absolute moral and religious givens and ... to give an irrefutable final answer to questions of meaning. ...
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  • "innocent," since it carries a moral charge separate from the ... situation, before they are asked questions relating to the commission ...
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  • economist. In Essays on Some Unsettled Questions of Political Economy, five ... and on metaphysical and psychological questions in the Fortnightly Review ...
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