Anheuser-Busch did not actually need Paul Tillich or Reinhold Niebuhr or U Thant or any of them to provide it with a solid foundation in the moral universe, because it had a pretty great morality already, which is said to be a natural by-product of the best domestic hops and beechwood aging.
It also recalls one of sport's great morality tales, one which still excites the imagination half a century after the miner's son from Harworth, Nottinghamshire, collapsed, fell off his bike and died near this spot on 13 July 1967.
True, Scorsese missed an opportunity to tell a great morality tale about the price of excess, but the kind of people whose life goal is to enrich themselves at any cost so they can pal around with chimps or fling midgets about for an afternoon's entertainment are unlikely to have been swayed by such a film anyway.
I agree with the statement in the article that "people don't engage in moral reasoning but moral rationalization". How paradoxical that the monkeys demonstrated greater morality and "humanity" than the human researchers hoping to understand morality.
According to ANSA, Cardinal Bertone said the Roman Catholic Church urged greater "morality" and "legality" in public life, especially from those holding public office.
"Let's take the greatest morality story of all -- we're born again," he added, in a play on words connoting both his view that the party needs a fundamental change, as well as the importance of evangelical Christians to Bush.
Lancaster confesses to his sins, explains various real and mythical medical remedies in terms of their theological symbolism, and exhorts the reader to greater morality.
A country, particularly one as large and as diverse as the U.S., has multiple interests and "goals" that, if they can be defined at all, tend to be large and amorphous and arguable: a rising standard of living, an improving quality of life, greater freedom, greater morality, greater power in the world, greater security, a higher degree of civilization.
The partner seeking third-party objectivity will likely employ a belief system that assigns rightness, virtue or greater morality to their position and therefore, will not be seeking some true compromise, but instead acquiescence by their mate to what must be the right way.
Naturally it includes his seemingly offhand collaborations with Robert Altman: a new print of "MASH" (Friday through Aug. 7) and the two great California morality tales "The Long Goodbye" (Aug. 9) and "California Split" (Aug. 17).
Rod Serling wrote this as a great modern morality play on the value of individuality and the dangers of wanting to conform to one ideal of beauty.
