The persecution of women and girls was stark: from restricted mobility and highly limited access to education; to needing male guardians to go out in public; to the rampant policing and persecution of "moral crimes" committed by women; to the exchanging of women and girls between families to settle disputes.
A moral idealist committed to a vision of social justice, Weil in her writings explored her own religious life while also analyzing the individual's relation with the state and God, the spiritual shortcomings of modern industrial society, and the horrors of totalitarianism.
Religious leaders can help SRH and RJ organizations frame their goals as being part of a moral movement committed to social justice.
If the human being were created or determined actually and always to do good, there would never have been a concept of evil or vice (bone) in Akan moral language, since no human being would, in that kind of moral context, commit a vicious or evil act.
Recently, some moral realists have denied that moral realism is committed to convergence.
Moral realists are committed to holding, though, that to whatever extent moral claims might have other uses and might be made by people with indefensible accounts of moral facts, some moral claims, properly understood, are actually true.
Such an error theorist is forced to fall back on vague metaphors in presenting her case: Moral properties have a "to-be-pursuedness" to them (Mackie 1977: 40), moral facts would require that "the universe takes sides" (Burgess [1978] 2007), moral believers are committed to "demands as real as trees and as authoritative as orders from headquarters" (Garner 1994: 61), and so on.
But before we cede the entire moral penthouse to "committed vegetarians" and "strong ethical vegans," we might consider that plants no more aspire to being stir-fried in a wok than a hog aspires to being peppercorn-studded in my Christmas clay pot.
Given that account of the content of normative judgments it will turn out to be necessary that those with moral attitudes are committed to normative judgments which treat descriptively identical items the same for purposes of planning.
The best account for slavery's disappearance is probably just that the outrage stoked by the Abolitionists' unfathomably committed moral drive made slavery a political issue before the Civil War, and then claimed its eradication as a laurel of Northern victory.
