The theory rocked the foundations of social and moral life.

这个理论动摇了社会和道德生活的基础。

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In his new book, however, he seeks moral foundations for the case against immigration controls.

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Ironically, the inventors of democracy may be the first to rediscover the moral foundations of money, as barter networks begin springing up across a demonetized Greece.

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The next pope should be, in short, a charismatic, missionary culture warrior, challenging the world's democracies to rebuild their moral foundations and offering Catholic social doctrine as one tool for that urgent task.

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