Sentence examples for modern objections from inspiring English sources

Prior to modern objections to slavery, Muslim legal thinkers never questioned the assumed right of a slave owner to rape his female slaves: they only argued over the legality of possible situations, such as two men going halfsies on buying a woman and then both raping her, or a man raping a female slave who was owned by his male slave.

In that sense, Pascal's critique is an early version of a modern objection to the so-called 'Principle of Double Effect.' Pascal's political theory was likewise dictated by his account of human concupiscence.

A more modern objection is that the formal theory of the syllogism as presented in Prior Analytics 1 1, 3-7 is woefully inadequate to express a theory involving conditionals and many-many relations, as is the case with all ancient mathematics.

There are two moral impulses intertwined here, the ancient prohibition against gluttony and the more modern Puritan objection to indulging pleasure for its own sake.

Once they are distinguished from related but distinct concepts peculiar to modern philosophy, various objections to virtue ethics can be better assessed.

There, he set out to test his faith by learning the modern world's objections to Christianity.

A modern form of the objection was raised in the early 1960s by the British historian of science Martin Rudwick, who claimed that the thesis is uncomfortably asymmetrical.

Despite those philosophical and moral objections, almost all modern economic systems in the world today are mixed economies.

The above objections to the modern welfare state would be made both by right-libertarians and left-libertarians.

Whatever objections the early moderns had to corpulence were as much moral as they were strictly medical.

The mainstream religious or ethical stance is pro-immunization and no major faith has expressed a blanket theological objection to immunization in modern times.