His influence continues to be felt in the religious life, moral concerns, and social ethics of Western civilization, and therein lies his undying significance.
More than previous generations, they believed in tolerance and in the freedom of the individual; on the other hand, they wanted a set of rules for the conduct of a successful life — "moral guard rails," as Hybels puts it.
More than previous generations, they believed in tolerance and in the freedom of the individual; on the other hand, they wanted a set of rules for the conduct of a successful life—"moral guard rails," as Hybels puts it.
BARRETT -- I'd be aghast if we assumed that recent college graduates took the attitude that they had during college and carried that through their full professional life, moral life, social life, any other life that they have.
She points out what many of us in similar situations have encountered from the medical establishment at ends of life: moral chaos grounded in arrogance, intellectual insularity and fear (of litigation).
The Ethics of Everyday Life: Moral Theology, Social Anthropology, and the Imagination of the Human by Michael Banner [Oxford University Press, 2014; Amazon UK hardcover/kindle UK; Amazon US hardcover/kindle US] Publisher's synopsis: Why do we have children and what do we raise them for?
The 154-page report, entitled A Democratic Licence To Operate, is based on a year of "investigation and consultation", and draws on views from investigative journalism, the Internet, law, policing, political life, moral philosophy.
Contingent beings require a divine necessary being (cosmological); cosmic order implies a divine cosmic ordering power (design); reality should be construed as the actual content of divine knowledge (epistemic); the supreme aim in life is to contribute to the divine life (moral); and there is a beauty of the world as a whole that only God can enjoy (aesthetic).
However, there is also a life moral message about how it is our turn to be the guardians of these magnificent creatures.
