Ancient leaders historically turned to moral philosophers for education, guidance, and to frame strategic challenges.
The populist social conservatives and Tea Partiers see a nation headed to moral ruin and socialism.
This once again speaks to moral hazard on the part of savers, as opposed to banks.
Many of those who object to the change in the law don't point to moral concerns.
Professor Williams made profound contributions to moral theory, most effectively in his critique of utilitarianism.
Many people have overlapping moral values, and one can settle debates by appeal to moral common ground.
First, because there was a lot of foreign investment in assets not obviously subject to moral hazard.
Moving to a higher level, can we justly conclude that clear English is significantly related to moral worth?
The former implies that companies, like people, should be held to moral standards.
He will use the sermon to call for a return to moral values where respect for others is placed above possessions.
But investors who hate tobacco for personal reasons or avoid it due to moral qualms create trading opportunities for the rest of us.
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In the eyes of the rest of the world, a South Africa personified by Mr Mandela may have a claim to moral leadership.
Some states have recently shown signs of responding to moral pressure.
While Ms. Bakos and some others came to moral terms with their work as a result of soul searching, not everyone was always given to rumination.
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However, as the cleanliness and purification rituals found in many religions suggest, physical cleanliness, too, is linked to moral behaviour, so she decided to investigate this as well.
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But Europeans should resist a surrender to moral relativism.
Of course, intellectuals, whom I de fine as those who think ideas are more important than people, are notoriously bad at seeing the ordinary world and coming to moral decisions about it.
And I think on a societal level, the understanding that obesity can have fundamental genetic causes and is not always due to moral failing may permeate society and we may treat obese people differently.
The theory behind Glass-Steagall (and GS-lite measures like the Volcker Rule and the swaps pushout provision of Dodd-Frank) is that banks with insured deposits are subject to moral hazard, and will take on too much risk.
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He appealed to moral vanity by saying that fighting a war against fanatic barbarians "with one hand tied behind your back" is being on "the better side of history, " even though innocent lives are put at risk.
In contrast to Ted Turner's multi-million dollar paean to moral equivalence, the Casey-Hoover event showed that the Soviet Union was indeed an Evil Empire and that the extraordinary achievement of bringing about its collapse was neither an accident nor inevitable.
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"He was one of the first scientists to encounter moral opposition to his work at a research level, " said University of Pennsylvania bioethicist Arthur L. Caplan.
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People want leaders to be moral and to exude ethics.
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Between age 3 and 5 children learn that people can have false beliefs, but only by age 7 have they developed the ability to apply moral judgments to other people's thoughts.
America has tightened the screws on Iran, but not yet stopped its nuclear programme and, many say, failed at a crucial moment in 2009 to give moral support to the country's democracy activists.
His refusal to make a moral distinction between the mullahs and their democratic opponents - like his refusal in Cairo to make a moral distinction between a nuclear-armed Iran and a nuclear-armed America - makes clear that he is not interested in forging a factually accurate or morally clear-sighted foreign policy.
His ability of mobilizing the masses was due more to his moral authority than to the understanding of his proposals.
They appear to have concluded that it is better to court moral hazard than to risk setting off another round of instability.
In his "Divine Comedy" of the 14th century, the sin he condemned most vigorously was "ignavia, " by which he meant sloth -- the failure to take responsibility, the failure to show moral courage and to change things.
According to Trilling, sincerity was eventually elbowed aside by the need for authenticity, "a more strenuous moral experience" that responds aggressively to received moral opinion.
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