This is related to the problem of authority raised earlier: These considerations suggest that people sometimes acknowledge moral authority that extends beyond their own society, and a relativist needs to show why this makes sense or why people are mistaken in this acknowledgement.
He argued that identification would be an acknowledgement of her moral and physical courage.
What we are saying is that animals have no rights that we need to respect but animals are obligated to respect human lives and property even as we acknowledge they possess absolutely no moral or ethical basis for such an acknowledgement.
The moral right to privacy was the "first acknowledgement in English law of any right to privacy", although it operates in limited circumstances.
But that acknowledgement is itself a form of moral judgment on what Gingrich did: Consequentialist and ends-based, to be sure, but no less a judgment for all that.
For precisely this kind of banal disparagement of the normative virtues of the intellect (its acknowledgement of the inevitable plurality of moral claims; the rights it accords, alongside passion, to tentativeness and detachment) is also one of the roots of fascism — what I was trying to expose in my argument about Riefenstahl.
There are seventy-two crimes in the State of Virginia, which, if committed by a black man, (no matter how ignorant he be,) subject him to the punishment of death; while only two of the same crimes will subject a white man to the like punishment.-What is this but the acknowledgement that the slave is a moral, intellectual and responsible being.
To explore these complexities in depth requires partnership with terminally ill children and adolescents, and acknowledgement of their active social and moral agency in research.
It's also, to a lesser extent, an acknowledgement of brand awareness and the evergreen moral certainty that accompanies shooting Nazis, although in both cases it's not something that can be done with a straight face or much hope of sophistication.
