Oh no, moral quandary alert!
Smith's deep interweaving of individuals with their society, and of socialization with moral development, alerts him to the many ways in which moral norms and ideals are indexed to historical circumstances (see Schliesser 2006).
Terry Woodworth, a D.E.A. official in Washington, said the drug maker had a moral obligation to alert state and federal authorities to the warnings its sales representatives had received even though it was not legally required to do so.
That's the number of people, according to the Revenue & Customs, who in one year have taken advantage of a confidential hotline to do their moral duty and alert the authorities to possible tax evasion by friends, colleagues, family and other low-lifes.
Sure, negative experiences do have benefits: Loss opens the heart, remorse provides a moral compass, anxiety alerts you to threats, and anger spotlights wrongs that should be righted.
The science of the moral sense also alerts us to ways in which our psychological makeup can get in the way of our arriving at the most defensible moral conclusions.
"[We] had an ethical, moral, professional responsibility to alert our community about this crisis, this emergency," she told Democracy Now!
"[We] had an ethical, moral, professional responsibility to alert our community about this crisis, this emergency," she told Democracy Now! Pediatrician @MonaHannaA proves Michigan town's water was poisoning children.
Schlink, who is also a lecturer in law, writes with an alert sense for moral ambiguities, yet he also makes an impassioned stand in defence of the redemptive power of love.
As in Schlink's previous novel "The Reader," the author is alert to the moral dilemmas that confronted a generation of Germans growing up in the wake of the Second World War, but the book can't quite contain its metafictional stuffing.
What readers will find is a poetry governed by an alert spiritual and moral consciousness, one that testifies to the suffering of others without ironically eclipsing it in the presence of an obtrusive self.
