His theory of international relations, which assumes that independent states, like independent individuals, are enemies by nature, asocial and selfish, and that there is no moral limitation on their behavior, is a great challenge to the idealist political vision based on human sociability and to the concept of the international jurisprudence that is built on this vision.
There is frustration today, because of the difference between the ability -- the physical ability -- and the moral limitations".
You hope he will be better than he is, that he will rise above his moral limitations, his own self.
Helmer's and Nora's moral limitations, and their tragedy, are worked out in relation to, and because of, the habits and beliefs of their times.
Is it possible that Benjamin's martyrdom involved not just a fear of the Nazis but a despair over the moral limitations of intellectual life?
It helps, of course, that Mr. Baitz creates dazzling dialogue that spontaneously conveys a character's social context and moral limitations, as well as self-consciousness about both.
But he's an individualist who constantly questions himself, painfully aware of the emotional and moral limitations of going it alone.
Although he occasionally draws the reader's attention to the moral limitations of the Founding Fathers, for instance calling their treatment of the native population one of the "less attractive features of the western story", this is largely a triumphalist tale.
It helps, of course, that Mr. Baitz, author of "The Substance of Fire" and "A Fair Country," is without peer among his contemporaries in creating dialogue that spontaneously conveys a character's social context and moral limitations, not to mention a self-consciousness about both.
Ben Brantley, reviewing "Ten Unknowns" in The New York Times in 2001, described its playwright as "without peer among his contemporaries in creating dialogue that spontaneously conveys a character's social context and moral limitations, not to mention a self-consciousness about both".
Women's supposed weaker constitutions and moral limitations, as well as their social restrictions, contributed to a concept of sublimity that marks it as masculine.
