You can't push a morally muscular foreign policy by subverting morality.
Voluntarism thus subverts morality and religion because love of God is essential to both (for more in depth discussions of Leibniz's anti-voluntarism, see J. B. Schneewind's The Invention of Autonomy, pp. 250 259, and Knud Haakonssen's Natural Law and Moral Philosophy, pp. 46 9).
During a parliamentary debate in October 2007, Dr. Thio said that "repealing 377A is the first step of a radical, political agenda which will subvert social morality, the common good and undermine our liberties".
Does this make Emma a pitiable prototype for the passive female gull of mass culture, operating mindlessly under "false consciousness", or a feminist avant la lettre who subverts bourgeois morality and suffers the consequences?
She goes on to write that Johnson's words show a "deep psychological investment in masculine self-image," one that "has the power to subvert circumspection, logic, prudence, morality and even national self-interest in matters of national decision making, and create the illusion that there are no alternatives".
By blurring the lines between reality and surreal experience, the film subverts the "simple morality tales" and "road maps" offered to Barton as easy paths for the writer to follow.
Attention to this transition would "subvert all the vulgar systems of morality, and let us see, that the distinction of vice and virtue is not founded merely on the relations of objects, nor is perceiv'd by reason" (ibid).. Few passages in Hume's work have generated more interpretive controversy.
That was the aristocratic attitude toward political freedom, but to secure the continuity of personal authority by dynastic convention, regardless of the qualifications for rule, was to subvert the Roman tradition and corrupt public morality.
Peru's public institutions were subverted and its political morality debauched by Mr Fujimori.
Much of what is said in the Republic and elsewhere reflects the belief that the vital opinions of the community could be shaped by law and that men could be penalized for saying things that offended public sensibilities, undermined common morality, or subverted the institutions of the community.
