Concurrent with the decline of the left, the figure of the 'expert' public intellectual filled the void and eventually replaced the critical intellectual in terms of prominence and moral authority on issues of the day.
While reason retains its position of prominence in her morality, the moral sense plays an important role according to her in motivating agents to act morally.
That would give them the place of prominence on the moral high ground.
The president is a role model, and, because of his prominence and the moral authority that emanates from his office, sets standards of behavior for the people he serves...
Cloaked in deception and secrecy, it has earned prominence on lists of moral prohibitions and is understood as more than a sin; in divorce courts it is a crime.
As the church is "reformed according to the Word of God," so the lives of the individuals in the church are to conform to the Word of God; hence the Reformed tradition has assigned great prominence to the cultivation of moral uprightness among its members.
Critics of Rawls's theory and his method of reflective equilibrium, especially utilitarians, challenge the prominence the method gives to moral judgments or intuitions.
Though much of this attention has been driven by a concern for the production's safety, its intensity and prominence call to mind a moral panic, motivated less by the production's well-being than by upholding the arts in their present form.
If Pythagoras was primarily a figure of religious and ethical significance, who left behind an influential way of life and for whom number and cosmology primarily had significance in this religious and moral context, how are we to explain the prominence of rigorous mathematics and mathematical cosmology in later Pythagoreans such as Philolaus and Archytas?
The first page of this book indicates some of the distinguishing features of his long life: his privilege, his prominence in the public eye, his testing of moral convention.
