A main idea of Confucianism is the cultivation of virtue and the development of moral perfection.

This was the main moral for most of the earlier series of Big Brother.

One of the main theses of casuists was the necessity to adapt the rigorous morals of the Early Fathers of Christianity to modern morals, which led in some extreme cases to justify what Innocent XI later called " laxist moral " ( i. e. justification of usury, homicide, regicide, lying through " mental reservation ", adultery and loss of virginity before marriage, etc .— all due cases registered by Pascal in the Provincial Letters ).

Some of the main topics of the field are moral responsibility, moral development, moral character ( especially as related to virtue ethics ), altruism, psychological egoism, moral luck, and moral disagreement.

At the same time scenes of ordinary life with moral, political or satirical content became often the main vehicle for expressive interplay between figures in painting, whether given a modern or historical setting.

A main theme within Macbeth is the destruction that follows when ambition goes beyond moral constraints.

In general, Moses is described in ways which parallel the prophet Muhammad, and " his character exhibits some of the main themes of Islamic theology ," including the " moral injunction that we are to submit ourselves to God.

The complaints of the two main preaching orders of the period, the Dominicans and the Franciscans, against the moral corruption of the Church, to some extent echoed those of the heretical movements, but they were doctrinally conventional, and were enlisted by Pope Innocent III in the fight against heresy.

The main change that Christian thought brought was to moderate the Stoicism and theory of justice of the Roman world, and emphasize the role of the state in applying mercy as a moral example.

The main characteristics that define soap operas are " an emphasis on family life, personal relationships, sexual dramas, emotional and moral conflicts ; some coverage of topical issues ; set in familiar domestic interiors with only occasional excursions into new locations ".

' He argues that one of the main reasons for introducing rule utilitarianism was to do justice to the general rules that people need for moral education and character development and he proposes that “ a difference between act-utilitarianism and rule-utilitarianism can be introduced by limiting the specificity of the rules, i. e., by increasing their generality .” This distinction between a ‘ specific rule utilitarianism ’ ( which collapses into act utilitarianism ) and ‘ general rule utilitarianism ’ forms the basis of Hare ’ s two-level utilitarianism.

" Han, the main speaker, credited her husband with bringing about Communism's fall and declared that he must save America from " the destruction of the family and moral decay.

The main difference is that " redneck ," " cracker ", " Okie ", and " hillbilly " emphasize that a person is poor and uneducated and comes from the backwoods with little awareness of the modern world, while " white trash " emphasizes the person's moral failings.

His novels often featured main characters who succeeded at their objectives despite a lack of a firm moral code, and literary situations that more closely resemble studies of nature than tales of choice and agency.

Various religious and moral thinkers ( e. g. Tolstoy and Gandhi ) have admired its message, and it has been one of the main sources of Christian pacifism.

He vehemently preached against the moral corruption of much of the clergy at the time, and his main opponent was Pope Alexander VI ( Rodrigo Borgia ).

In addition to systematic work in moral theory, Gauthier's main philosophical interests are in the history of political philosophy, with special attention to Hobbes and Rousseau, and in the theory of practical rationality, where he begins from an attempt to understand economic rationality, rather than from Kantian or Aristotelian antecedents.

Many of the main criticisms of moral relativism by the Catholic Church relate largely to modern controversies, such as elective abortion.

Like Podkayne, I Will Fear No Evil ends by moralizing about the fundamental purpose of human life, which is to take care of children, and in both novels the moral has no clear relationship to the main events of the story.

The main character Gaston, a World War I veteran who suffers from amnesia, cannot remember the moral depravity of his youth ( he slept with his brother's wife and severely injured his best friend ).

A chorus of Aeschylus almost always continues or intensifies the moral nature of the play, while one of Euripides frequently strays far from the main moral theme.

Underlying these conceptions of mimesis are certain presuppositions concerning the nature of primary human experience which require some exposition before the main argument can proceed.

It is also applied by the Spiritist doctrine as the main argument for the existence of God.

Nevertheless, Bischoff ’ s main argument was in reference to Haeckel ’ s drawings of human embryos, for Haeckel is later accused of miscopying the dog embryo from him.

For the rest of Major's premiership the main argument was over whether Britain would join the planned European Single Currency.

The omission of a bill of rights became the main argument of the anti-federalists against the constitution.

His main line of argument was that the tremendous displacements and changes he was seeing did not happen in a short period of time by means of catastrophe, but that processes still happening on the Earth in the present day had caused them.

Thus, the main lesson from the argument is not that one risks big losses, but merely that one cannot always win.

In " Rich and Poor ", the version of the aforementioned article that appears in the second edition of Practical Ethics, his main argument is presented as follows:

There has been considerable argument among paleontologists about whether the main wing membranes ( brachiopatagia ) attached to the hind limbs, and if so, where.

The Court would then agree on the decision that they wished to reach, along with the main points of argument they wished to use.

This rotation of personnel is the main argument that nearly the entire SS knew of the concentration camps, and what actions were committed within, making the entire organization liable for war crimes and crimes against humanity.

Perhaps the main argument offered against this possibility in the history of philosophy is the argument from analogy ( other things have minds if they are sufficiently similar to us ); it can be found in the works of John Stuart Mill, A. J. Ayer, and Bertrand Russell.

The main thrust of his argument was that God's design of the whole creation could be seen in the general happiness, or well-being, that was evident in the physical and social order of things.

O ' Rourke's best-received book is Parliament of Whores, subtitled A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U. S. Government, whose main argument, according to the author, " is that politics are boring ".

His main argument for the infinity of God, which can be found in Against Eunomius, is that God's goodness is limitless, and as God's goodness is essential, God is also limitless.

Bitzer's main argument is the concept that rhetoric is used to " effect valuable changes in reality " ( Bitzer 14 ).

His main argument for classifying social capital as a geographical concept is that the relationships of people is shaped and molded by the areas in which they live.

Bentham ’ s main argument against the restriction is that “ projectors ” generate positive externalities.

This consideration supports the main argument of those who rejected the consultation considered a violation of human rights, among these gay groups and humanitarian actors.

Her main argument is that in order to understand the principle of cultural relativism, one must recognize the extent to which it is based on enculturation: " the idea that people unconsciously acquire the categories and standards of their culture.

The main argument for this is the belief that Taiwan, a small island, ultimately cannot compete with mainland China, and hence will benefit the most by reunifying as early as possible.

A more detailed argument was put forward in 1964 by Richard Hosley, who suggested that the main source could have been the anonymous ballad A Merry Jest of a Shrewde and Curste Wyfe, Lapped in Morrell's Skin, for Her Good Behavyour.

He based his argument on three main pieces of evidence:

A main argument is that other episodes in The Prelude have just as much sensory depth as panoramas had.