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.

That tumultuous, painful and costly experience shows clearly that a law expressing a moral judgment cannot be enforced when it has little correspondence with the general view of society.

The general Protestant conviction is that motives, rather than methods, form the primary moral issue, provided the methods are limited to the prevention of conception ''.

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.

But whether this was accompanied by a general lowering of the moral life of the membership we do not know.

For Hume, philosophy can be split into two general parts: natural philosophy and the philosophy of human nature ( or, as he calls it, " moral philosophy ").

In its most general form, the argument from moral normativity is:

The moral guide must then promote and encourage social behaviors that maximize general benefit.

In contrast, just as postmodernism has so far failed to take root in ethnic Chinese circles as opposed to a general sense of Chinese nationalist moral certainty, much of ethnic Chinese scholarship of Chinese history remains largely modernist or even outright traditionalist in outlook.

Cathars, in general, formed an anti-sacerdotal party in opposition to the Catholic Church, protesting against what they perceived to be the moral, spiritual and political corruption of the Church.

The killing of a school teacher by a Guatemalan Army soldier culminated the civil unrest that precipitated the coup d ’ état ; the moral outrage of the Guatemalan national populace was manifested with a general strike that halted the national economy and stilled the country.

Some refer to this political activity as a separate and radical branch of the ecology movement, one that takes the axioms of the science of ecology in general, and Gaia theory in particular, and raises them to a kind of theory of personal conduct or moral code.

This definition originally referred to martial courage or excellence but extended to more general moral excellence.

The acceptance of artificial methods of birth control is then claimed to result in several negative consequences, among them a " general lowering of moral standards " resulting from sex without consequences, and the danger that men may reduce women " to being a mere instrument for the satisfaction of own desires "; finally, abuse of power by public authorities, and a false sense of autonomy.

It appears to me, that the general conclusions established by Mesmer ’ s practice, with respect to the physical effects of the principle of imagination [...] are incomparably more curious than if he had actually demonstrated the existence of his boasted science " animal magnetism ": nor can I see any good reason why a physician, who admits the efficacy of the moral psychological agents employed by Mesmer, should, in the exercise of his profession, scruple to copy whatever processes are necessary for subjecting them to his command, any more than that he should hesitate about employing a new physical agent, such as electricity or galvanism.

*** 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.

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.

This is more common when the misdemeanor is related to the privilege in question ( such as the loss of a taxi driver's license after a conviction for reckless driving ), or when the misdemeanor involves moral turpitudeand in general is evaluated on a case-by-case basis.

The moral guide must then promote and encourage social behaviors that maximize the general utility of all the people in that society.

Much of the Qur ' an exhorts Muslims to general moral values ; only 80 verses of the Qur ' an contain legal prescriptions.

Research on perceptions of science among the American public conclude that most religious groups see no general epistemological conflict with science and they have no differences with nonreligious groups in the propensity of seeking out scientific knowledge, although there may be epistemic or moral conflicts when scientists make counterclaims to religious tenets.

' 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.

She wrote that Whiteness Studies " points to a new low in moral vacuity and civilizational self-loathing " and is an example of " academic pusillanimity.

“ The main factors in civilizational changes are in our view acquired volitional human factors … Natural or environmental factors, such as race and heredity, geographic situation, economic system, and social, intellectual, and moral conditions, are all possibilities or bonds.

The latter narrates the moral and spiritual decline of a high society courtesan.

The Christian Right is an attempt to restore Judeo-Christian values to a country that is in deep moral decline.

Like Sima Qian, Toynbee explained decline as due to their moral failure.

Unlike many other major civilizations where written law was held in honor and often attributed to divine origin, law in early China was viewed in purely secular terms and its initial appearance was greeted with hostility by Confucian thinkers as indicative of a serious moral decline, a violation of human morality, and even a disturbance of the total cosmic order.

And as I told you, these are the two secondary causes of the decline of art ; the first being the loss of moral purpose.

Li situates his teaching of Falun Gong amidst the " Dharma-ending period " ( Mo Fa, 末法 ), described in Buddhist scriptures as an era of moral decline when the teachings of Buddhism would need to be rectified.

The process of Fa rectification is necessitated by the moral decline and degeneration of life in the universe, and in the post-1999 context, the persecution of Falun Gong by the Chinese government has come to be described as a tangible symptom of this moral decay.

He is remembered particularly for his efforts to legislate against political, economic, and moral decline in archaic Athens.

Toynbee explained decline as due to their moral failure.

In these he pursued his political policies, fought verbal vendettas, and opposed what he saw as Rome's moral decline.

The hypothesis that a purported decline in general moral standards was associated with an increase in abuse by clergy was promoted by a study by John Jay College funded by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.

He attacked a " perceived moral decline and political weakness " in the Arabian Peninsula and condemned what he perceived as idolatry, the popular cult of saints, and shrine and tomb visitation.

In writing about the conspiracy of Catiline, Sallust's tone, style, and descriptions of aristocratic behavior show him as deeply troubled by the moral decline of Rome.

The murder was touched upon as strong evidence of moral decline less than four months later by the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents in what became known as the Mazengarb Report, named after its chair, Oswald Mazengarb.

It is often used to describe a decline due to an erosion of moral, ethical, and sexual traditions.

Women's rights, disrespectful children, low church attendance, and sexual promiscuity became symptoms of decline in family values and of moral decay.

The Twilight Club is an organization which was founded by Charles Wingate in the late 19th century with the intention of countering the moral decline of society by bolstering spiritual and ethical awareness.

Another distinct feature of antebellum anti-war literature was the emphasis on how war contributed to a moral decline and brutalization of society in general.

Some writers claimed that it reflected Nogi ’ s disgust with the profligacy and decline in moral values of late Meiji Japan.

Its mission statement is: " The mission of CWA is to protect and promote Biblical values among all citizens-first through prayer, then education, and finally by influencing our society-thereby reversing the decline in moral values in our nation.

The book sold over 1. 5 million copies in France, prompting a French minister to attribute " the moral decline of France " to mini-skirts and Papillon.

In her revelation, Kozłowska received an order to fight with the moral decline of the world, especially with the sins of the clergy.

His reign is thus generally considered to constitute the beginning of Númenor's moral decline.