A variety of hand movements helps dramatize the moral climate of the fallen world Pip encounters beyond the forge.

In the 20th century, discussions about the afterlife address the interconnection between human action and divine judgment, the need for moral rectitude, and the eternal consequences of human action in this life and world.

Other major ideas in the book of Amos include: social justice and concern for the disadvantaged ; the idea that Israel's covenant with God did not exempt them from accountability for sin ; God is God of all nations ; God is judge of all nations ; God is God of moral righteousness ; God made all people ; God elected Israel and then liberated Israel so that He would be known throughout the world ; election by God means that those elected are responsible to live according to the purposes clearly outlined to them in the covenant ; if God destroys the unjust, a remnant will remain ; and God is free to judge whether to redeem Israel.

This latter construal is sometimes expressed by saying " there is no fact of the matter as to whether or not P ." Thus, we may speak of anti-realism with respect to other minds, the past, the future, universals, mathematical entities ( such as natural numbers ), moral categories, the material world, or even thought.

Aelian's work is one of the sources of medieval natural history and of the bestiaries of the Middle Ages ; in some ways an allegory of the moral world, an Emblem Book.

" It has also been implied, especially in the ' alternate future ' story Kingdom Come, that the Clark Kent persona is symbolic of the values taught to him by his wholesome Midwestern parents, the values he holds most dear: his instinctive knowledge of right and wrong that allows him to adopt his Superman persona, without being consumed by the moral implications of his actions ; Superman is the means through which he can bring this example to the world.

Their moral doctrine was based on the belief that the material world including the flesh was intrinsically evil as stemming from the evil principle or god.

Thus, central to Zoroastrianism is the emphasis on moral choice, to choose between the responsibility and duty for which one is in the mortal world, or to give up this duty and so facilitate the work of druj.

# These moral features of the world can be reduced to some set of non-moral features

Ethical naturalism does, however, reject the fact-value distinction: it suggests that inquiry into the natural world can increase our moral knowledge in just the same way it increases our scientific knowledge.

# These moral features of the world are not reducible to any set of non-moral facts.

His comic touches can be thought to intensify the overall tragic effect, and his realism, which often threatens to make his heroes look ridiculous, marks a world of debased heroism: " The loss of intellectual and moral substance becomes a central tragic statement.

Translations of the Discourses ( e. g. by Elizabeth Carter, George Long ) have included the Enchiridion, and it has often been included with other moral writings from the ancient world, most notably the Tablet of Cebes.

Graduates of world-renowned Łódź Film School include some of the icons of the world cinematography, e. g., Roman Polanski ( Knife in the Water, Rosemary's Baby, Frantic, The Pianist ) and Krzysztof Zanussi ( a leading director of the so-called cinema of moral anxiety of the 1970s ).

" In this denial of the right to participate in government, not merely the degradation of woman and the perpetuation of a great injustice happens, but the maiming and repudiation of one-half of the moral and intellectual power of the government of the world.

The phenomenal world as such, arises from self-consciousness ; the activity of the ego ; and moral awareness.

Gödel defines a positive property thus: " Positive means positive in the moral aesthetic sense ( independently of the accidental structure of the world )...

Anticipating what the world would be like in the year 2000, the book is interesting both for its hits ( trains and cars resulting in the dispersion of population from cities to suburbs ; moral restrictions declining as men and women seek greater sexual freedom ; the defeat of German militarism, and the existence of a European Union ) and its misses ( he did not expect successful aircraft before 1950, and averred that " my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocate its crew and founder at sea ").

A moral philosopher who produced alternatives to the ideas of Thomas Hobbes, one of his major contributions to world thought was the utilitarian and consequentialist principle that virtue is that which provides, in his words, " the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers ".

The authority which the magisterium enjoys by the will of Christ exists so that the moral conscience can attain the truth with security and remain in it .” John Paul quoted Humanae Vitae as a compassionate encyclical, " Christ has come not to judge the world but to save it, and while he was uncompromisingly stern towards sin, he was patient and rich in mercy towards sinners ".

Most world religions have sought to address the moral issues that arise from people's sexuality in society and in human interactions.

The world has been intentionally designed by God as a difficult place, where human beings are forced to make moral decisions, as only in this way can they mature as moral agents.

It is not the world that shapes the mind but the mind that gives reason to the world, so the mind alone is the source of all reason, having an inner light, an innate moral goodness and understanding of what is good.

These lives are in themselves outside of the moral order and are unburdened with moral responsibility.

They order the manifold levels of reality and moral value along an axis of being which extends from brute matter to the immaculate stars.

To try to oppose the general religious and moral conviction of such a majority by a legislative fiat would be to invite the same breakdown of law and order that was occasioned by the ill-starred Prohibition experiment.

The common belief was that there existed one moral order, which included everything.

Arguments from morality tend to be based on moral normativity or moral order.

Argument from moral order are based on the asserted need for moral order to exist in the universe.

They claim that, for this moral order to exist, God must exist to support it.

Some arguments from moral order suggest that morality is based on rationality and that this can only be the case if there is a moral order in the universe.

The arguments propose that only the existence of God as orthodoxly conceived could support the existence of moral order in the universe, so God must exist.

Alternative arguments from moral order have proposed that we have an obligation to attain the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue.

They attest that whatever we are obliged to do must be possible, and achieving the perfect good of both happiness and moral virtue is only possible if a natural moral order exists.

A natural moral order requires the existence of God as orthodoxly conceived, so god must exist.

" Unlike utilitarianism, which views pleasure as a moral good, " the basic goods in Mohist consequentialist thinking are ... order, material wealth, and increase in population ".

Traditionalist conservatism is a political philosophy emphasizing the need for the principles of natural law and transcendent moral order, tradition, hierarchy and organic unity, agrarianism, classicism and high culture, and the intersecting spheres of loyalty.

This humanism invokes a moral order, whose ontic commitment is wholly intra-human, with no reference to transcendence.

Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

The private eye is therefore a moral man ; ;

More profound and more disturbing, however, is the moral isolation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

In proportion to the degradation of his moral worth, is the increase of his worth to them ''.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

One's daily work becomes sacred, since it is performed in the field of influence of the moral law, dealing as it does with people as well as with matter and energy.

In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.

There is indeed a moral responsibility on man himself, for his own soul's sake, to respect lower life and to avoid the infliction of suffering, but this viewpoint Schweitzer rejects.

Such a list must naturally be selective, and the treatment of each man is brief, for I am interested only in their general ideas on the moral measure of literature.

When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.