In the fable's Greek original, as well as in its Latin and Romance translations, the grasshopper is in fact a cicada.

The names of the main characters in the fable-Chicken Little / Chicken Licken and Henny Penny-and the fable's central phrase-The sky is falling!

Its creator has commented on the fable's theme that ' it demonstrates people's vulnerability to cosmic forces and the inner links there are between natural events and our life as humans.

This represents a shift away from the fable's political application.

Several of the replies to Mr. Toynbee, without conscious resort to the traditional terminology with regard to the permission of evil, succeed in restoring the actual context in which present moral and political decisions must be made, by distinguishing between choosing a great evil and choosing in danger of this evil.

The believer may then feel excused of any moral or political responsibility for remedying whatever institutional or societal flaw might be the actual source of the dissonance.

The actual subject material of the canons is not just doctrinal or moral in nature, but all-encompassing of the human condition.

It examines ethics not from a top-down a priori perspective but rather observations of actual choices made by moral agents in practice.

The Catholic Church holds the position the there is no moral impediment to gambling, so long as it is fair, all bettors have a reasonable chance of winning, there is no fraud involved, and the parties involved do not have actual knowledge of the outcome of the bet ( unless they have disclosed this knowledge )

Some theorists argue that a metaphysical account of morality is necessary for the proper evaluation of actual moral theories and for making practical moral decisions ; others reason from opposite premises and suggest that we must impart ideas of moral intuition onto proper action before we can give a proper account of morality's metaphysics.

According to utilitarianism the moral worth of an action is determined only by its resulting outcome although there is debate over how much consideration should be given to actual consequences, foreseen consequences and intended consequences.

::“ One ought to abide by the general principles whose general inculcation is for the best ; harm is more likely to come, in actual moral situations, from questioning these rules than from sticking to them, unless the situations are very extra-ordinary ; the results of sophisticated felicific calculations are not likely, human nature and human ignorance being what they are, to lead to the greatest utility .”

States that are party to the Berne Convention for the Protection of Literary and Artistic Works recognize separately copyrights and moral rights, with moral rights including the right of the actual creators to publicly identify themselves as such, and to maintain the integrity of their work.

In both cases, the actual creators have moral rights.

We recognize that Jesus is telling a story to illustrate a moral point, and that such stories often don't claim to correspond to actual events.

In extreme cases, moral hazard can lead to or permit control fraud to occur, where actual illegal activities take place.

The actual subject material of the canons is not just doctrinal or moral in nature, but indeed all-encompassing of the human condition.

The connection between McDowell's general metaphysics and this particular claim about moral properties is that all claims about objectivity are to be made from the internal perspective of our actual practices, the part of his view that he takes from the later Wittgenstein.

Although the " moral guilt " for the attempt and the actual crime were the same, there was a distinction between the harm caused by a theft and the harmlessness of an impossible act.

Kohlberg's research can be classed as descriptive ethics to the extent that he describes human beings ' actual moral development.

Mohandas Gandhi, Confucius, Menno Simons and Baruch Spinoza are examples of figures in moral philosophy and political philosophy who focused first and foremost on the ethical choices made in the actual framing and encounter of moral interventions.

The truth is that while his political ideas are founded upon great moral or philosophical generalizations, often vividly recalling and sometimes anticipating the broad conceptions of Edmund Burke, they are at the same time imbued with precisely those practical qualities which have ever been characteristic of English statesmenship, and were always capable of application to actual conditions.

According to Shen Dao, there is no natural basis for moral judgment and authority arises and is sustained due to the nature of actual circumstances, rather than in accordance with human or linguistically formulated moral values.

The novel presents an ironic contradiction between the perception of morality and actual morality, such as the " Utopian " Blithedale filled with sin and far less than " moral " individuals.

This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights.

Mimesis is the nearest possible thing to the actual re-living of experience, in which the imagining person recovers through images something of the force and depth characteristic of experience itself.

As a word of caution, we should be aware that in actual practice no message is purely one of the four types, question, command, statement, or exclamation.

But there is no line between France and Germany, that is, no actual line.

He mentions the beats only once '', when he refers to their having revived through mere power and abandonment and the unwillingness to, commit death in life some idea of a decent equivalent between verbal expression and actual experience,, but the entire narrative, is written in the tiresome vocabulary `` of '' that lost `` and '' dying cause, `` and in the '' `` sprung syntax that is supposed to supplant, our mother, tongue.

The section is violated whether or not actual restraints or monopolies, or the substantial lessening of competition, have occurred or are intended.

Research, development test and evaluation funds, devoted to missiles in 1960 were 3 to 4 times as large as those devoted to aircraft, and actual missile procurement is expected to exceed aircraft procurement by 1963.

Thus technical efficiency is achieved at the expense of actual experience.

Consultation with architects, clients, real estate men, fabric houses and furniture companies is essential to the proper development of class problems just as in actual work.

The actual change Af caused by a shear field is calculated by multiplying the pressure differential times the volume, just as it is for any gravitational or osmotic pressure head.

It is the discrepancy between the actual attained achievement test score and the score that would be predicted by the I.Q..

By the time the child first attacks the actual problem of reading, he is completely familiar and at ease with all of the elements of words.

The actual mean of 1.07 being about halfway between 0 of complete correlation and 2.0 of no correlation, it is evident that there is a pretty fair degree of similarity in the behavior even of particular individual items of meaning as regards long-term stem displacement.

The second major aspect of the election is the actual procedure of registration, nomination and voting.

The Summary Report, which was prepared for this Conference, indicates, first, that actual or pending school desegregation is increasing ; ;

second, that both actual and pending desegregation is, with few exceptions, the product or result of court order.

Therefore, if the sense of touch is functioning normally and there is a complete absence of spatial awareness in a psychically-blind person when the eyes are closed and an object is handled, the conclusion seems unavoidable that touch by itself cannot focus and take possession of the third-dimensionality of things and that actual sight or visual representations are necessary.

The actual surface becomes both ground and background, and it turns out -- suddenly and paradoxically -- that the only place left for a three-dimensional illusion is in front of, upon, the surface.

During the first pass of Phase 3,, references to the actual addresses of index words and electronic switches are collected and the availability table is updated.