Achilles, Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Byron, Lawrence: none of these were heroes by any moral definition of the term.
That anyone else might have a legal say in what you can do- including the grad student who has been "working" on his PhD for like nine years and let's get real is obviously never going to finish -- constitutes the moral definition of slavery.
We tend to forget how wonderfully ambiguous "Julius Caesar" often feels in its moral definitions of its characters.
In the same way, the IPCC seems to regard the police as moral by definition, and is inclined to regard any account of an event that exonerates the police as a priori the "most plausible".
It has also been objected that these moral deceptionist definitions are morally lax (Kemp and Sullivan 1993, 158 9).
On an issue that is so crucial to a society's moral self-definition Cuomo never showed a moment's hesitation or a glimmering of hypocrisy.
Perhaps at some uneasy, half-conscious level, this sense that our moral self-definition is at stake when we talk about prisons explains why the riot at the Attica Correctional Facility, in upstate New York, in September, 1971, remains imprinted in public memory.
It has been objected that these moral deceptionist definitions are unduly narrow and restrictive (Bok 1978).
These are remarkable, ambitious poems that refuse, in grief, the easy way out: predictable religious or received knowledge responses to death -- but dive into philosophical and moral "re-definition".
Inevitably, tension will arise between a people's spiritual or moral self-definition and the exigencies of statecraft, between the highest concepts of human nature and the daily realities of individuals in decision-making positions wielding power and balancing a variety of competing interests.
We wanted to know how health care professionals and leaders interpreted those terms without using specific moral theories or definitions of ethical challenges as the starting point for the interviews.
