She believed that marriage was only a moral arrangement and not a legal one.
For Bentham, the most important elements of the external environment in which a person imagines outcomes are the penalties and rewards laid down by law and those deriving from other educative and moral institutional arrangements and practices, including the sanction exercised by public opinion.
A legal system, like any moral system, is a complex and interdependent social arrangement.
Is it really plausible, he asks, that one culture enjoys access to the moral facts regarding marital arrangements whereas the other lacks that access?
The leading principle that Bolzano applies in answering this question is his supreme moral law: The political arrangements are to be made in such a manner that the general welfare or virtue and happiness are all advanced as far as possible (Bolzano 1932, III, 7 f .. From it he tried to derive all the rules and regulations needed in a well-organized state.
As committed Christians and scholars, we found the book to be a major contribution to the scholarly endeavor of examining our long and rich traditions in light of social arrangements and moral challenges unanticipated by even the most authoritative voices of those traditions.
Simultaneously, as the European Community, which looks more and more like a mercantile arrangement, loses moral importance for the Germans, and Germany sinks into materialism.
The critic Michael J. Arlen recognized the profound moral implications of this arrangement more than 40 years ago: the manner in which, for example, the propagandistic early coverage of Vietnam helped build public support for the war.
I admire the simplicity of Johnny's delivery and arrangements and the moral ambiguity in his storytelling; sometimes sacred, sometimes profane, always entertaining.
Oakeshott attacks "the ideological style of politics", which pursues an "abstract idea" blind to the society's actual arrangements and their moral and emotional "intimations"—"men in a hurry" who wish to plan and mobilise.
