Among his activities with the Institute, which concentrates in part on helping liberal candidates and politicians with re-framing political metaphors, Lakoff has given numerous public lectures and written accounts of his message from Moral Politics.

The first Relief release was also his first Green Velvet production, 1993's " Velvet Tracks ," which came from a name given to him by a girlfriend's dad, emerged as the flamboyant, neon-haired electro punk, although in interviews he denied being linked to the Punk lifestyle and fashion, as he was more inspired by the likes of David Bowie and Sly and the Family Stone, he created excellent mid-1990s hits such as " Preacher Man ," on which a Moral Majority-type of preacher spoke ( the Reverend Clarence LaVaughn Franklin-father of Aretha Franklin and ally of Martin Luther King, Jr .); " Answering Machine ," a darkly funny house track consisting of taped messages from an answering machine, including a bad news message from a girlfriend and a noise complaint message from his landlord — all made with Jones's voice ; and " Flash ," which was a # 1 US dance hit in 1995 and was included on many DJ-mixed compilation albums.

Daniel Goldhagen, former Associate Professor of Political Science at Harvard University, also suggested in his book A Moral Reckoning that the Roman Catholic Church should change its doctrine and the accepted Biblical canon to excise statements he labels as antisemitic, to indicate that " The Jews ' way to God is as legitimate as the Christian way ".

It was also discussed by Peter S. Fosl in his essay titled " The Moral Imperative to Rebel Against God ".

With God as " First Cause " or " Moral Legislator " theology has no concern ; nor is it interested in the speculative problems indicated by the traditional doctrine of the Trinity.

* Moral Purity: Engage in activities which glorify God in the body and which avoid the fulfillment of the lust of the flesh.

* Long, J., Gray, J., An Enquiry into the Origin of the Human Appetites and Affections, Shewing how Each arises from Association, with an account of the Entrance of Moral Evil to the world, to which are added Some remarks on the independent Scheme which deduces all Obligation on God ’ s part and Mans from certain abstract Relations, Truth, & c. Written for the Use of the young Gentlemen at the Universities, W. Wood, ( Lincoln ), 1747 reprint: pp. 281 – 476 in McReynolds, P. ( ed ), Four Early Works on Motivation, Scholar ’ s Facsimiles & Reprints, ( Gainesville ), 1969

He says: ' The holy universal Church teaches that it is not possible to worship God truly except in her and asserts that all who are outside of her will not be saved ' ( Moral.

In 1811, when he proclaimed himself king, Henri I of Haiti awarded himself the title, " Défenseur de la Foi ", and incorporated it into his full style, which translates from the French original as: By the grace of God and the constitutional law of the state, King of Haiti, Sovereign of Tortuga, Gonâve and other adjacent Islands, Destroyer of Tyranny, Regenerator and Benefactor of the Haitian Nation, Creator of her Moral, Political and Martial Institutions, First Crowned Monarch of the New World, Defender of the Faith, founder of the Royal and Military Order of Saint-Henry.

* 1914 – 15 William Ritchie Sorley Moral Values and the Idea of God

* Moral contingency: If morality depends on the perfectly free will of God, morality would lose its necessity: " If nothing prevents God from loving things that are different from what God actually loves, then goodness can change from world to world or time to time.

Moral obligations are created by " personal demands ", whether these demands come from the weakest creatures or most insignificant persons or from God.

While his theological works are forgotten, his side-interest in statistics ( and the then-very fashionable view that statistical predictability of social behavior left no space for ethics or God ), and discussions with the then-very deterministically-minded great economist Adolph Wagner let him write a very important work, the Moralstatistik (" Moral Statistics "), in 1868.

Chalmers ' Bridgewater Treatise, in the series On the Power, Wisdom and Goodness of God as Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, appeared in two volumes 1833 and went through 6 editions.

* " Moral framework ": Belief in God, for example, is seen by some to be necessary for moral behavior.

Robert Wright ( born 1957 ) is an American journalist, scholar, and prize-winning author of best-selling books about science, evolutionary psychology, history, religion, and game theory, including The Evolution of God, Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny, The Moral Animal, and Three Scientists and Their Gods: Looking for Meaning in an Age of Information.

Moral standards of absolute honesty, absolute purity, absolute unselfishness, and absolute love, though recognised as impossible to attain, were guidelines to help determine whether a course of action was directed by God.

* Business for the Glory of God: The Bible ’ s Teaching on the Moral Goodness of Business

Klaus Bockmuehl, Professor of Theology and Ethics, Regent College, Vancouver and author of Listening to the God Who Speaks, wrote: " The genius of Moral Re-Armament is to bring the central spiritual substance of Christianity ( which it often demonstrates in a fresher and more powerful way than do the Churches ) in a secular and accessible form.

" If spiritual Faith is a natural duty — namely, if it is obligatory on account of the relation in which men stand to God as creatures to their Creator — it is commanded by the Moral Law, and it was incumbent on Adam as much as on any of his posterity.

In addition, he has several books due in the coming years, including What God Wants: What the World ’ s Major Religions Teach about Today ’ s Most Controversial Issue, SpiritWise: The Moral Teachings of Native Americans, and Black Op.

William Styles defines neonomianism as, " A schemed of Divinity propounded by Daniel Williams, D. D., which held that God has receded from the demands of the Moral Law, and given up its original obligations — and that the Gospel is a New Law, but of milder requirements, in which Faith, Repentance, and sincere though imperfect Obedience, are substituted in the room of the perfect and perpetual Obedience required by the original Law.

# The Moral Reflection – Rumi supports his voice of morality by including quotations from the Quran and various hadith stories of events in the life of the Prophet Mohammed.

Thomas Clarkson: ' Moral Steam Engine ' or False Prophet?

The term " consequentialism " was coined by G. E. M. Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

It was not until publication of The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning ( 1988 ), by Albert Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin, that a revival of casuistry occurred.

A good reference, analyzing the methodological structure of casuistic argument, is The Abuse of Casuistry: A History of Moral Reasoning ( 1990 ), by Albert Jonsen and Stephen Toulmin ( ISBN 0-520-06960-9 ).

Christian alternative music has its roots in the early 1980s, as the earliest efforts at Christian punk and new wave were recorded by artists like Andy McCarroll and Moral Support, Undercover, The 77s, Adam Again, Quickflight, Daniel Amos, Youth Choir ( later renamed The Choir ), Lifesavers Underground, Michael Knott, The Altar Boys, Breakfast with Amy, Steve Taylor, 4-4-1, David Edwards and Vector.

It was followed by Academia Scientiarum ( 1687 ), and by A Moral Discourse of the Power of Interest ( 1690 ), dedicated to Robert Boyle, Abercromby's patron in the 1680s.

Anscombe in her essay " Modern Moral Philosophy " in 1958, to describe what she saw as the central error of certain moral theories, such as those propounded by Mill and Sidgwick.

In Moral Machines: Teaching Robots Right from Wrong, Wendell Wallach and Colin Allen conclude that issues in machine ethics will likely drive advancement in understanding of human ethics by forcing us to address gaps in modern normative theory and by providing a platform for experimental investigation.

Moral and scientific thinking together do not suffice to understand human existence, so a further set of categories, governed by a norm of " authenticity ", is necessary to understand human existence.

This argument was explicitly given by Adam Smith in his Theory of Moral Sentiments, and has more recently been developed by Harvard economist Benjamin Friedman in his book The Moral Consequences of Economic Growth.

* The Lesser Evil: Moral Approaches to Genocide Practices ( Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions ), edited by Helmut Dubiel and Gabriel Motzkin.

He also found time for philosophical speculations, and in 1830 he published his Inquiries concerning the Intellectual Powers of Man and the Investigation of Truth, which was followed in 1833 by a sequel, The Philosophy of the Moral Feelings.

** Moral relativism maintains that all moral judgments have their origins either in societal or in individual standards, and that no single objective standard exists by which one can assess the truth of a moral proposition.

*** Moral rationalism, also called ethical rationalism, is the view according to which moral truths ( or at least general moral principles ) are knowable a priori, by reason alone.

The term originates from a 1906 address by William James entitled The Moral Equivalent of War, subsequently published in essay form in 1910.

Many objections to non-cognitivism based on the linguistic characteristics of what purport to be moral judgments were originally raised by Peter Glassen in " The Cognitivity of Moral Judgments ", published in Mind in January 1959, and in Glassen's follow-up article in the January 1963 issue of the same journal.

* Moral Cognitivism vs. Non-Cognitivism-Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy entry by Mark van Roojen.

# The Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Condition of Man, by Thomas Chalmers, D. D.

As Manifested in the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man ; Bridgewater Treatises, W. Pickering, 1834 ( reissued by Cambridge University Press, 2009 ; ISBN 978-1-108-00072-7 )

# Moral law of karma: Every action ( by way of body, speech, and mind ) will have karmic results ( a. k. a. reaction ).