One critic points to his search for a moral order as a link to Shakespeare and sees in his moral vision a basis for renewal.
In discovering the God-within we discover at the same time the depth of our own divinity from which arises a moral order free from despotic imposition while remaining subject to social consensus.
He votes for the spirit — although he did not state his position in the first person until June of this year, when, in the course of a book review, he defined himself as a supporter of "Western liberal democracy, favouring an intellectual élite and a progressive middle class and based on a moral order derived from Christian absolutes".
It's Anderson's own counter-Scripture, a vision of a moral order, ordained from on high, that challenges the official version instilled by society at large — and he embodies it in images of an apt sublimity (as well as an aptly self-deprecating humor).
It's Anderson's own counter-Scripture, a vision of a moral order, ordained from on high, that challenges the official version instilled by society at large and he embodies it in images of an apt sublimity (as well as an aptly self-deprecating humor).
The "Melian Dialogue," which is one of the most frequently commented-upon parts of Thucydides' History, presents the classic debate between the idealist and realist views: Can international politics be based on a moral order derived from the principles of justice, or will it forever remain the arena of conflicting national interests and power?
These philosophers support their intuitions by appeal to a moral order that pervades the universe, some sort of moral essence or objective demand from the noumenal or transcendental realm.
Since it is rational to try to be moral, it is rational to believe that there is moral order in the universe, and Christian doctrine is, in part, an account of there being a moral order in the universe.
Some arguments from moral order suggest that morality is based on rationality and that this can only be the case if there is a moral order in the universe.
