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  • The label moral relativism refers to at least three distinct claims ... different cultural groups have different moral codes. This empirical fact ...
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  • an uplifting example of spiritual and moral conduct. ==The Life of ... movements that followed, the vast majority of which existed in concert ...
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  • in the eyes of the world in challenging the moral authority of the Soviet regime ... tokamak, which is still the basis for the majority of work in the area. Sakharov ...
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  • is justified, paternal interference in moral issues (that only affect ... life, be it financial (mandatory pension), moral (criminalization of prostitution ...
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  • :Compare Moral relativism and Cultural relativism. For an unrelated ... in 1962), suggesting the inevitability of moral conflict between people. ...
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  • Praise and blame are closely connected with the concept of moral responsibility ... necessary conditions for appropriate moral praise or blame. Aristotle ...
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  • is a type of law designed to enforce moral standards, particularly the ... century as a disparaging reference to rigid moral codes and those who observed ...
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  • depriving her of free agency. Determining moral responsibility requires careful ... under which it is appropriate to hold a moral agent blameworthy or praiseworthy ...
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  • recognized women would soon become the majority in the teaching world. She ... *The Moral Instructor (1838) *Religious Training of Children in the ...
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  • hatred and revenge drive out ethical and moral intelligence.’’ weaves the theme of duty with more complex moral issues culminating in a disturbing ...
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  • twice. During this period, a chair in moral philosophy was added, and ... from more than 130 countries. The majority of the students at the Gregorian ...
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  • the final two chapters address serious moral and doctrinal issues. First ... The vast majority of New Testament scholars, critical and traditionalist ...
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  • Deontology posits the existence of a priori moral obligations suggesting that ... or belief may offend the sentiment of the majority (such as homosexuality or ...
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  • to achieve an elevated understanding of moral and political truth, which ... It paved the way for a major, but mostly moral, victory for the Jacobins ...
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  • (1907) was an attempt to interpret the moral and philosophical meaning ... throughout the country, and authoring the majority of publications in American ...
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  • human attributes while expressing a simple moral or lesson. Examples abound ... character (Cowardly Lion) and a moral at the end (There is no place ...
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  • is considered one of the two great moral teachers during the Hundred ... to Confucius and Mozi as the two great moral teachers of the Warring States ...
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  • autonomy and was often persecuted by the majority. He enabled that community ... that, "Muhammad is my spiritual and moral son." Asma bint Umais ...
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  • questions should be decided upon by a majority of the population, but that ... it might not actually be expressed by the majority, making the concept open ...
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  • enlarging on their significance to create a moral lesson or a comment on humanity ... , Akutagawa equates that the word "moral" with "daily needs ...
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  • pronounced decrease in the quality of human moral standards and religious piety ... of restoration following a long period of moral decadence and societal degeneration ...
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  • His legacy best serves as a lesson in the moral bankruptcy of any regime ... and various forms of Darwinism; the majority of Lysenko's work consisted ...
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  • == Moral Philosophy == In his writings, Herbert Spencer attempts to ... He believed that each person possesses a moral sense to not hurt others ...
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  • revelation left God uninvolved with the majority of humankind. At the same ... existence of God; (b) the naturalness of moral distinctions; and (c) the ...
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  • cultural, and perhaps even ideological-moral group. The roots of the ... cultural and perhaps even ideological-moral group. Zhonghua refers ...
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  • wider community. According to the American moral philosopher Susan Wolf, freedom ... animals who as a result are not treated as moral agents. It is also linked ...
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  • that led to poverty, crime, alcoholism, moral perversion and political ... weariness, and the willful rejection of the moral boundaries governing the ...
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  • that acquisitiveness was a corrupting moral influence, and that it deprived ... and Equality (1931), which contained harsh moral condemnations of the capitalist ...
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  • his "clear and present danger" majority opinion in the 1919 case ... worded dissent in which he criticized the majority's use of the clear ...
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  • cannibalistic fetish, resulted in moral outrage and efforts to annex ... True or false, they provided another moral excuse for the Western ...
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  • and give control of the Senate to the majority. A resolution was proposed ... line, coinciding with a marked principle, moral and political, once conceived ...
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  • this one.) This is often the case in moral arguments. Lying is wrong ... In general, it is not fallacious to appeal to authority. If the majority ...
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  • with others, they had few resources or moral guidance and determined to ... morality, and could thus form his own moral scheme unbounded by society ...
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  • Jews. This meant not only accepting the moral laws of Judaism, such as ... quot; by following Judaism' basic moral commandments, if not its ...
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  • #039;s own theories of political and moral redemption through self-sacrifice ... is not merely a sensual experience, but a moral one as well: the good is ...
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  • While the majority of HJI students have been Unification Church members ... their willingness to uphold the ethical and moral standards of HJI: ...
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  • must be provided, on the basis of strong moral ethics and family structure ... was color-blind in some areas, in the majority of places it was not. In ...
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  • because of a perceived disappearing of moral values. Alternatively, the ... available (body parts), to those that the majority would agree are morally ...
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  • of critical scholars, as well as the vast majority of traditionalists, do ascribe ... * Furnish, Victor Paul. The Moral Teaching of Paul. Abingdon Press ...
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  • nature and held that humans were capable of moral perfection. ... the same view. Cyril, however, held the majority and determined to open the ...
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  • reject them, or whether all but the Jewish moral law should be abandoned as ... was known mainly by his idea of God and the moral principles on which he acts. ...
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  • and have even claimed to occupy the high moral ground. Imperial projects ... context, the idea of the East as less moral, more chaotic than the West ...
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  • efforts made the foundations for the great moral revival of the Victorian ... time, when the vote was taken, a huge majority in the House of Commons ...
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  • and schools would be one spoken by the majority of inhabitants of that region; ... the importance of maintaining a high moral level as a nation. His work ...
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  • parts of negative, modal, disjunctive, or moral facts."Fact," in ... Moral philosophers since David Hume have debated whether values are ...
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  • values, creating such groups as the Moral Majority, which played a major ... traditional Muslims, the overwhelming majority of whom are not Islamists ...
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  • grew increasingly caustic in decrying the moral corruption of what he now ... Montanist leaders channeled revelations from the Holy Spirit urging ...
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  • principle, even atheists could maintain a moral society. The implication ... first published in 1696. While the majority of its material is devoted ...
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  • on the world stage has claimed a moral purpose of acting altruistically ... States citizens have used the term to claim moral superiority for America or ...
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  • woman to head the government of a Muslim-majority state in modern times. ... have said that they only provided moral support and nothing more ...
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  • as resulting in "the end of a moral institution." ... someone who for decades set himself up as a moral authority, a rather smug ...
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  • application of Jewish law (Halakha) the majority of Orthodox Jews ultimately ... authorship of the Torah, declared only the moral aspects of biblical laws ...
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  • household arrangement representing the majority of the U.S. population. ... of a man and a woman.James Q. Wilson, The Moral Sense (New York: Free Press ...
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  • by the eponymous prophet. Unlike the vast majority of prophetic books, which ... Though the majority of biblical scholars attest to the presence of ...
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  • In his moral philosophy (most famously expounded in his Groundwork ... vacuous, including theology and the majority of philosophy, in contrast ...
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  • socioeconomic (rich/poor), racial (majority/minority), generational ... *Lor, P., and J. J. Britz. "Information imperialism: Moral problems ...
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  • Ireland, there was only "one true moral denomination," which ... Ireland was dominated by its Protestant majority. Until its Parliament was ...
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  • a Guardian obituary, his "worldwide moral authority." ... support for the campaign for Black Majority Rule in South Africa. In ...
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  • made by entrepreneurs regarded as their moral affirmation. ... is often a difficult undertaking, as the majority of new businesses fail. ...
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  • of the Kingdom of Hungary with Polish majority population to Poland. ... by the treaty to neighboring states had a majority of non-Magyar population ...
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  • person who has not yet reached the age of majority, and whose behavior has ... varies by jurisdiction, to the age of majority, which also varies by jurisdiction ...
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  • arguably the single most powerful voice in moral and spiritual affairs. He ... of Europe to deal with the church's moral problems firsthand, notably ...
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  • he recommended, in opposition to the majority, certain concessions to ... a giant in intellect. In contrast to the majority of Italian cardinals of ...
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  • that freedom was not determined by majority rule alone. A free society ... to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant ...
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  • where other religions were in the majority believed in an approach ... Buber in Germany) respected Jesus as a moral teacher, even though they ...
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  • disagreed with him, accusing them of "moral lapses." Garrison saw ... granting freedom to slaves, the majority saw the relocation as a ...
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  • and the Allies in February 1947, then gave moral leadership to the Italian ... enjoyed enough support to gain an overall majority. His seventh government ...
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  • different types of government in Sunni-majority states, including a secular ... Shi'a sects, as opposed to the majority Sunni groups, is indeterminate. ...
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  • Moral censorship is the means by which any material that contains ... is of no possible use to enemy forces. The moral issues here are often seen ...
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  • management of the firm’s affairs via majority rule. Under such organizational ... managers often seek to appease the majority of company stockholders ...
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  • Sometime during the ninth century, the majority of Sunni decided that ... Muhammad Iqbal, "Islam as a Moral and Political Idea," in ...
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  • pedophile. As with most paraphilias, the majority of those affected by the ... seen from a medical standpoint, as the majority of sex crimes against children ...
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  • to 2 range of the scale and that a large majority appeared to be at least ... And even his colleagues realized there were moral issues involved in using ...
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  • his Troilus and Criseyde in part to "moral Gower," and Gower reciprocated ... religious, political, historical, and moral—though he has been narrowly ...
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  • aid of the American Revolution, and had a moral objection to capital punishment ... nearest of all others to true deism, in the moral and benign part thereof, ...
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  • Soviet Union. Bolsheviks (or "the Majority") were an organization ... had the support of a Central Committee majority and negotiations were started ...
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  • In 1895 he was appointed to the chair of Moral theology, and in 1903 ... disdain by the Anglo-Scottish Protestant majority, and also as potentially ...
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  • the earliest church fathers and for the majority of the populace. Despite ... ] by this Paul only meant that through his moral perfection and the miraculous ...
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  • distribution, public performance, and moral rights such as attribution ... from the use of their works by others. Moral rights allow authors and ...
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  • setting forth some of the community's moral, religious, and legal standards ... it is indeed an Essene document, as the majority of scholars think, it gives ...
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  • limits, through social norms and taboos, moral and religious guidelines ... In the majority of cultures and countries, sexual activity is legal ...
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  • of Fisher, as well as those of the great majority of economists, and requires ... the destruction of local monopolies... The moral and intellectual gains of ...
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  • of society retained the traditional moral values of abstinence before ... chastity was no longer taboo in the majority of western societies. Perhaps ...
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  • Conservative critics of The IMF often refer to the "moral hazard ... the insurance provided by the Fund leads to moral hazard with investors in ...
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  • is "환인(Hwanin)." But the majority of the Koreans today, not ... rain, and wind, he instituted laws and moral codes and taught humans various ...
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  • will is considered to be a requirement for moral responsibility. For example ... for what they do. However, many believe moral responsibility to require ...
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  • at the emperor's order in 355. The majority of the Roman clergy acknowledged ... hundreds died. He also faced accusations of moral corruption, but was highly ...
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  • solving abilities, acquisition of language, moral understanding, and identity ... stages to describe how individuals develop moral reasoning ...
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  • nor good – what we become depends on the moral control we are taught to ... good direction through their own, internal moral control. Since he is a pessimist ...
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  • He won his second election by a larger majority of votes than any of the ... and he accepted without question her strict moral standards. At the age of ...
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  • interested in the life of the majority, not the elite. As an artistic ... had to be important and invested with moral dignity, and the artist had ...
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  • This creates a moral culture where "safety has become a sacred ... complex policy issues in a blinding moral certainty." ...
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  • assumed the timeless identity of a moral life as it is confirmed in ... (metempsychosis) follows a strict law of moral justice known as Karma in ...
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  • This definition has been adopted in part or completely by the majority ... *Moral intelligence It has become increasingly accepted that giftedness ...
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  • to self determination, however, the majority of the states argue that ... James Rachels has challenged both the use and moral significance of ...
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  • Europe, and in America. However, the majority of these students deviated ... An Investigation of the Facts and Laws of the Moral Life ...
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  • The large majority of Amish are united by a common Swiss-German ancestry ... in the larger Amish communities and the majority in smaller communities remain ...
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  • Consequentialist libertarians do not have a moral prohibition against ... in a society were to deliver widespread moral instruction to encourage ...
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  • once saved by God's grace, a truly moral life could be lived here ... One issue on which he departed from the majority of Mennonites surrounded ...
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  • The first one was moral, that we became victimologists and pathologizers ... Seligman's own study found that the majority of very happy people were ...
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