Fundamentally, we all have a morality bedrock.
This leads MacIntyre to conclude that patriotism is not to be contrasted with morality; it is rather a central moral virtue, indeed the bedrock of morality.
It's time to help put our country on record: torture is against the bedrock morals of this country, and we won't stand for the use of it in our name.
Frank Borzellieri, a member of the school board of District 24, which embraces Ridgewood, Elmhurst and other blue-collar and middle-class areas of Queens, said he had written a resolution calling the Scouts "a bedrock of moral values," and urging his board's "continued sponsorship of Boy Scouts of America activities".
In the secular realm, we carry out our arguments — and develop our politics, each of us an autodidact — without the benefit of a common moral language or the bedrock of shared premises, and we sometimes appear fated, therefore, to retreat to our various ideological corners for good.
During the press conference, Obama said: "Once again America's moral example must be the bedrock and the beacon of our global leadership.
God has attached feelings of pleasure and pain to our ideas, so the natural faculties with which humans are endowed "might not remain wholly idle, and unemploy'd by us" (Essay, 2.7.3). Pleasure and pain form the basis of Locke's general theory of motivation, but they are also the bedrock upon which our moral ideas, and the motivation to moral goodness arise.
With that oath, they come under military law and must follow military orders; ultimate liability -- service even at the cost of their lives -- now becomes the bedrock of a new ethical framework and moral vision.
