If we reduce that enemy to "evil," we conjure up a shape-shifting demon, a wild-card moral anarchist beyond our comprehension and therefore beyond the reach of any counterstrategies.
Those who have merely an intellectual comprehension of the moral landscape but never respond appropriately have a clouded perception, much like a person who uses the term "green" correctly but has never seen the color and so lacks the concept of "green" (427).
In Shawn's elegant volume, "Essays," the stage's greatest moral philosopher discusses belief, craft, and comprehension in prose that's suffused with the intelligent light of a true believer — in language.
Set within the oppressive confines of a corrupt high school for the deaf, Ukrainian director Myroslav Slaboshpitskiy's astounding debut presents its signed exchanges untranslated, yet you'd be surprised how swiftly comprehension arrives in this complex, chilling moral tale.
The games must be amusing, suited to a drawing-room ( I refer to size, not moral standards), and the rules should be capable of comprehension even by the postwar generation of aristocracy.
As discussed in section 2, evolutionary accounts of the origins of our capacity to be guided by moral judgments do not require any appeal to the comprehension of moral truths by our hominin ancestors, or even to the existence of such truths.
To understand the process of managing prenatal depression there must be an appreciation of the women's experiences, comprehension of their understandings of the world in which they live, and an understanding of their moral judgments [ 31, 34].
Historians and federal agencies reply that preservation does not imply moral endorsement, and that the remains of so monumental a project should be saved as a way to encourage comprehension and public discussion.
Sometimes an incident lends itself easily to comprehension and conclusion, condemnation or approbation, but the Kerrey affair seems only to deepen the difficulty of making moral judgments when memories are conflicting and traumatized, and when their context is itself freighted with moral ambiguity.
Moral panic and the sensationalism that accompanies this topic seem to get in the way of balanced reporting and reading comprehension.
