Vestiges of its moral valuations can survive the most ardent readings of Marx, Nietzsche and Freud, the fiercest scorn for the authority of a near-eastern creed imported millennia ago.
For "poor Dorothea," "poor Casaubon," and "poor Lydgate," the contextual nuances of this simple modifier imply subtle shifts and distinctions in the narrator's moral valuations.
These preferences were in conflict without broad consensus on how to balance criteria such as maximum benefit, social valuation, moral deservingness, prejudice, fair innings, first come, first served, and medical urgency.
As a schoolboy, Washington copied down the maxim that "every action one takes should be in consideration of all of those present," and indeed his lifelong actions as architect, collector, and landscape gardener were done in consideration of the public's valuation of his moral worth.
If spread out over several years, the bank could absorb the hit from Household implied by the mark to-market valuation without damaging its capital.Indeed the real moral of the tale is different.
Ethical Asset Valuation and the Good Society starts by stating transparent moral principles and, from these, derives simple rules that can be used to evaluate saving and investment decisions in terms of the public good.
Raz, Dickson, and others accept that some such valuation is necessary, but deny that it is moral: Dickson 2001.
It is not sufficient to declare the moral or ethical value of genetic resources: an urgent re-valuation in economic terms is increasingly needed to provide at once the tools and the reasons to preserve biological diversity.
Historic-cost left investors in the dark about valuations; it was also prone to fraud and fraught with moral hazard, since sloppy lending went unpunished.The sticky endMark-to-market does not have to be as bad as its critics fear.
Valuations of multiple kinds pervade nearly every aspect of our lives; our aesthetic, moral and religious evaluations and judgments.
