Although ostensibly a moral fable based on the Greek myth of Apollo and Alphisa, its libretto, ascribed to Louis de Cahusac, contains what were then quite radical thoughts about the nature of a woman's right to choose her partner, and the role of the people in deciding on a ruler.
Swiger, who is leaning toward McCain, said he usually votes based on moral issues.
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On the other side of the Pacific, the battles tend to focus on moral and faith-based issues, like abortion, creationism and same sex marriage.
Freedom is based on moral laws and legislation.
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Our willingness to exploit nonhuman animals is not something is based on sound moral distinctions.
One might conclude that Boise State has proven that building an organization based upon strong moral values and filled with individuals that fit within a predetermined cultural framework is a formula for success.
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The new rule, they claim, goes further by specifying that all health-care workers -- from doctors to hospital janitors -- may refuse to provide services, information or advice to patients based on their moral objections.
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She urged the committee to be clear about their intentions, and spell out the clear "philosophical and moral" principles the system should be based on.
But the upside surprises of creativity require a low entropy environment of predictable property rights, taxes and other business laws ultimately based on trust in a moral order.
Third is ignorance among these armies of administrators of both First Amendment law and, perhaps more importantly, the moral principles and philosophy upon which that law is based.
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Entrepreneurs are trustworthy because they accept a moral code of testability and falsifiability rather than one based on sentiment, sanctimony, good intentions, good press, good luck, good looks or guarantees.
"So we have some real serious issues, not just moral issues, " that require real investment that "faith-based initiatives" cannot provide, he said.
Instead, the moral molecule works like a gyroscope, helping us to maintain our balance between behavior based on trust and behavior based on wariness and distrust.
Instead of a moral judgment it calls for the introduction of a national body to monitor the state-based industry, mainly with consumer protection in mind.
Still, we judge movies and books and all sorts of other storytelling mediums based not just on the level of violence in them, but on the moral implications of that violence.
With the political power structure based at national level and capitalism functioning internationally, there is little way to impose moral values on amoral capitalism except that capitalism always needs consumers to pay for its products and services.
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