Sentence examples for moral primacy from inspiring English sources

The United States' claim to moral primacy in the world, the idea of American exceptionalism, rests upon the argument that this is a nation set apart.

The arcane quarrels of the Orthodox world came into view when it was reported that a representative of the Istanbul-based Ecumenical Patriarchate, which has a kind of "moral primacy" in global Orthodoxy, declined to participate fully on grounds that he was not given the place of honour which his institution deserved.

For example, some have argued that any theory recognizing the equal moral value of individuals and giving them moral primacy over communities cannot justify rejecting aliens' claims to admission and citizenship.

According to Amy Gutmann, President of the University of Pennsylvania, civic education is the most important subject talk in America schools and should have "moral primacy over other purposes of public education in a democratic society".

Section 103 of the Charter of the United Nations, for example, states that in conflicts between Charter obligations and those under other international treaties, Charter obligations will prevail; while the Vienna Declaration and Program of Action (1993) is widely regarded as a state consensus on the moral primacy of human rights over other public interests.

His Del primato morale e civile degli Italiani (1843; "On the Moral and Civil Primacy of Italians") affirmed the idea of progress as the return of the material to the spiritual, of man to God.

(Vincenzo Gioberti's Del primato morale e civile degli italiani ["On the Moral and Civil Primacy of the Italians"], published in 1843, was the classic expression of this attitude).

Moral intuitions have primacy, Haidt argues, but they are not dictators.

He is correct in insisting upon the moral and historical primacy of the battle against theocracy and terror.

"Nobody could challenge his primacy in moral leadership, which he retained to the end," Mr. Banac said.

Rejecting the universalist claims of the patriarch of Constantinople, Gregory asserted papal primacy over moral issues and emphasized the humility of his office by styling himself the "servant of the servants of God".