Because the responsibility for resolving the issue lay with the President, rather than with his doctors, nothing raises more surely for us the difficulties simple goodness faces in dealing with complex moral problems under political pressure.

It was a response to the conflict between political pressure and the moral intuition which resulted in attempts at prediction.

And we had the uneasy sense that the cleavage between the moral and the political progressed amid the events which concern us.

But the enmities it will incur, the isolation into which it will descend, and the internal moral and spiritual softness that will be engendered, will, in the long term, bring it to economic and political disaster.

They both measure literature by moral standards, and in their political writings both allow for censorship, but the differences between them are also significant.

`` This is a long picture and a controversial one, but basically it is a moral, enthralling and heartbreaking description of humans who have become unlinked from life as perhaps Rome has from her traditional political, cultural and religious glories ''.

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.

Thus, moral issues concerning the nature of the legal and political processes take on theological dimensions.

* The School of Diplomacy or School of Vertical and Horizontal, which focused on practical matters instead of any moral principle, so it stressed political and diplomatic tactics, and debate and lobbying skill.

In his inaugural speech, he reaffirmed his Jeffersonian principles, and added that, " Democracy in the political sphere, and Christianity in the moral sphere, proceed in converging lines.

Thus, judgments of aesthetic value can become linked to judgments of economic, political, or moral value.

In a current context, one might judge a Lamborghini to be beautiful partly because it is desirable as a status symbol, or we might judge it to be repulsive partly because it signifies for us over-consumption and offends our political or moral values.

Art is an autonomous entity for philosophy, because art deals with the senses ( i. e. the etymology of aesthetics ) and art is as such free of any moral or political purpose.

From the late 1950s Sakharov had become concerned about the moral and political implications of his work.

The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.

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.

Like moral panics, conspiracy theories thus occur more frequently within communities that are experiencing social isolation or political dis-empowerment.

It is a system of moral, social, political, and religious thought that has had tremendous influence on Chinese history, thought, and culture down to the 21st century.

Far from trying to build a systematic or formalist theory, he wanted his disciples to master and internalize the old classics, so that their deep thought and thorough study would allow them to relate the moral problems of the present to past political events ( as recorded in the Annals ) or the past expressions of commoners ' feelings and noblemen's reflections ( as in the poems of the Book of Odes ).

Because his vision of personal and social perfections was framed as a revival of the ordered society of earlier times, Confucius is often considered a great proponent of conservatism, but a closer look at what he proposes often shows that he used ( and perhaps twisted ) past institutions and rites to push a new political agenda of his own: a revival of a unified royal state, whose rulers would succeed to power on the basis of their moral merits instead of lineage. These would be rulers devoted to their people, striving for personal and social perfection, and such a ruler would spread his own virtues to the people instead of imposing proper behavior with laws and rules.

Carl Philipp Gottfried von Clausewitz (; July 1, 1780 – November 16, 1831 ) was a Prussian soldier and military theorist who stressed the moral ( in modern terms, " psychological ") and political aspects of war.

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.

Many would disapprove of government filtering viewpoints on moral or political issues, agreeing that this could become support for propaganda.

In addition, some scholars contend that China has never operated under a decentralized democratic regime in its several thousand years of history, and therefore it can be argued that the present political structure, albeit not up to Western moral or political standards, is the best possible option when compared to the alternatives.

By drawing parallels between paradigms, so-called " pure cases ", and the case at hand, a casuist tries to determine a moral response appropriate to a particular case.

The painting received a negative response from critics and from his family, and caused another " violent outburst of moral indignation " from the community.

In response, Lobo defended his intention " from a moral point of view ".

On Independence Day 1821, in response to those who advocated American support for independence movements in many South American countries, Adams gave a speech in which he said that American policy was moral support for independence movements but not armed intervention.

Another response is that the laws and moral principles are objective and self-evident in nature.

As for the Hobbesians, Singer attempts a response in the final chapter of Practical Ethics, arguing that self-interested reasons support adoption of the moral point of view, such as ' the paradox of hedonism ', which counsels that happiness is best found by not looking for it, and the need most people feel to relate to something larger than their own concerns.

The government's response to the crisis included strengthening the ulema's powers and increasing their financial support: in particular, they were given greater control over the education system and allowed to enforce stricter observance of Wahhabi rules of moral and social behaviour.

A promising response then is to point out that the assertion " evil exists " implies an ethical standard against which moral value is determined, and then to argue that this standard implies the existence of God ( see argument from morality.

Tubman condemned Lincoln's response and his general unwillingness to consider ending slavery in the U. S., for both moral and practical reasons.

' Alice E. Marwick says ' The technopanic is an attempt to contextualize the moral panic as a response to fear of modernity as represented by new technologies.

The most authoritative response to moral relativism from the Roman Catholic perspective can be found in Veritatis Splendor, an encyclical by Pope John Paul II.

A response from Mistress Toppe follows this epistle in Poems and Fancies, in which Toppe praises Cavendish and her skill in poetical fiction, moral instruction, philosophical opinion, dialogue, discourses and poetical romances.

In response to the great number of social problems in China, in March 2006, Hu Jintao released the " Eight Honors and Eight Shames " as a set of moral codes to be followed by the Chinese people, and emphasized the need to spread the message to youth.

In Folk Devils and Moral Panics, Cohen outlines some of the criticisms that have arisen in response to moral panic theory.

Burne-Jones's paintings were one strand in the evolving tapestry of Aestheticism from the 1860s through the 1880s, which considered that art should be valued as an object of beauty engendering a sensual response, rather than for the story or moral implicit in the subject matter.

The Poor People ’ s Campaign reflected Abernathy ’ s deep conviction that “ the key to the salvation and redemption of this nation lay in its moral and humane response to the needs of its most oppressed and poverty-stricken citizens .” His aim in the spring of 1968 was to raise the nation ’ s consciousness on hunger and poverty, which he achieved.

In response, author and writer Rod Dreher stated in a RealClearPolitics column that the rhetoric of a culture war disguises the fact that American society truly is deeply divided on some moral issues, which is not an artificial creation of political parties seeking to drum up support.

Fielding ’ s first venture into prose fiction came a year previously with the publication in pamphlet form of Shamela, a travesty of, and direct response to, the stylistic failings and moral hypocrisy that Fielding saw in Richardson ’ s Pamela.

St. John's University was founded in 1868, by the Vincentian Fathers of the Roman Catholic Church in response to an invitation by the first Bishop of Brooklyn, John Loughlin, to provide the poor youth of the city with an intellectual and moral education.

One moral realist response to moral error theory holds that it " proves too much " — if moral claims are false because they entail that we have reasons to do certain things regardless of our preferences, then so too are " hypothetical imperatives " ( e. g. " if you want to get your hair-cut you ought to go to the barber ").

Shocked at the response of her pupils to moral issues, she became concerned about what she and many others perceived as declining moral standards in the British media, especially in the BBC.