The endless battle over admissions in the United States proceeds on the assumption that some great moral principle is at stake in the matter of whom schools like Harvard choose to let in — that those who are denied admission by the whims of the admissions office have somehow been harmed.
The discussion over the culture of the Dolphins' locker room will, I hope, lead us all to greater clarity about the moral principles that ought to inform the relationship between the group and individual and between those who have power and those who do not.
Although this Declaration is not part of binding international law, its acceptance by all countries around the world gives great moral weight to the fundamental principle that all human beings, rich and poor, strong and weak, male and female, of all races and religions, are to be treated equally and with respect.
In consequence, for the great majority of foreign-policy transactions, moral principles cannot be decisive" (Schlesinger 1971, 73).The influential American realist, Hans Morgenthau, is anxious to separate politics from morality by maintaining "the autonomy of the political sphere".
John Leo thinks America is gradually losing the traditional moral principles that made it great, and he believes he knows why: political correctness.
Universal moral principles are of the greatest importance, but are not a guide to every detail of life.
In contrast, deontologists such as Immanuel Kant propose universal moral principles that should be observed despite 'the greater good' and determine the moral worth of an action by examining its inherent value (for review [57]).
At the novel's centre is George Smiley, a physically insignificant, middle-aged man of great observational powers and moral principle, who inevitably recalls those recurrent fictional Englishmen of great probity, Conrad's Marlow and Snow's Lewis Eliot.
Chaffetz went to great lengths to emphasize that he was compelled to act out of his strong moral principles.
