Hemingway's fiction is supported by a `` moral '' backbone and in its search for ultimate meaning hints at a religious dimension.

The trouble here is that it's almost too easy to take the high moral ground when it doesn't cost you anything.

The private eye is therefore a moral man ; ;

More profound and more disturbing, however, is the moral isolation of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe.

It is testimony to the deep respect in which Mr. Eisenhower was held by members of all parties that the moral considerations raised by his approach to the matter were not explicitly to be broached.

The capacity for making the distinctions of which diplomacy is compact, and the facility with language which can render them into validity in the eyes of other men are the leader's means for transforming the moral intuition into moral leadership.

This happens at the moment man loses the perception of moral substance in himself, of a nature that, in Maritain's words, is perceived as a `` locus of intelligible necessities ''.

Moral dread is seen as the other face of desire, and here psychoanalysis delivers to the writer a magnificent irony and a moral problem of great complexity.

If one finger is raised against the authorities, all our moral power will vanish.

In proportion to the degradation of his moral worth, is the increase of his worth to them ''.

His father was a professor at Hartford Theological Seminary, and from him he acquired a conviction, which he passed along to me, that there is in the universe of persons a moral law, the law of love, which is a natural law in the same sense as is the physical law.

One's daily work becomes sacred, since it is performed in the field of influence of the moral law, dealing as it does with people as well as with matter and energy.

In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

An uncompromising belief in the moral law has the advantage of making religion natural, even as physical law is natural.

To obey the moral law is just ordinary common sense, applied to a neglected field.

This truth that the moral law is natural has other important corollaries.

There is indeed a moral responsibility on man himself, for his own soul's sake, to respect lower life and to avoid the infliction of suffering, but this viewpoint Schweitzer rejects.

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.

When we turn to Aristotle's ideas on the moral measure of literature, it is at once apparent that he is at times equally concerned about the influence of the art.

And there is one other point in the Poetics that invites moral evaluation: Aristotle's notion that the distinctive function of tragedy is to purge one's emotions by arousing pity and fear.

This is related to Lessing's turn from French classicism to Aristotelian mimesis, discussed above.

The group is parodied in Doris Lessing's The Good Terrorist ( 1985 ), in which a group of naive, young, communist squatters splits over whether or not to join the IRA.

Usually, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Miss Sara Sampson, which was first produced in 1755, is said to be the earliest Bürgerliches Trauerspiel in Germany.

Wolfenbüttel is home of several departments of the Ostfalia University of Applied Sciences and the Lessing-Akademie, an organisation for the study of Lessing's works.

Lessing's third excerpt in Fragments, “ On the Passing of the Israelites Through the Red Sea ,” is said to be “ one of the ablest, wittiest and most acute which has ever been written .”

The tragic nobility of this statue is one of the themes in Gotthold Lessing's essay on literature and aesthetics, Laokoön, one of the early classics of art criticism.

Vidal also felt that Zone 6, Lessing's alternate plane for the dead, is not as convincing as The Dry Lands in Ursula Le Guin ’ s Earthsea trilogy.

He compared the Canopeans and Shammat to Milton's God and Satan in Paradise Lost, but said that while Lucifer's " overthrow [...] of his writerly creator is an awesome thing ", in Shikasta Lessing's human race with no free will is too passive and of no interest.

Thelma J. Shinn wrote in her book, Worlds Within Women: Myth and Mythmaking in Fantastic Literature by Women that Lessing's history of humanity in Shikasta is " pessimistic " but " convincing ".

The online magazine, Journey to the Sea found Lessing's inclusion of stories from the Hebrew Bible " entertaining and intriguing ", and said she challenges the logical thinker's rejection of these sacred texts, suggesting that it is " imaginatively possible " that they could be true.

Lessing's lead, Strauss indicates that medieval political philosophers, no less than their ancient counterparts, in writing, carefully adapted their wording to the dominant moral views of their time, lest their writings be condemned as heretical or unjust, not by " the many " ( who did not read ), but by those " few " whom the many regarded as the most righteous guardians of morality: precisely those few righteous personalities would be most inclined to persecute or ostracize anyone who is in the business of exposing the noble or great lie upon which stands or falls the authority of the few over the many.

Usually, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's play Miss Sara Sampson, which was first produced in 1755, is said to be the earliest Bürgerliches Trauerspiel in Germany.

Lessing's Emilia Galotti of 1771 is a classic example of the German Bürgerliches Trauerspiel.

The character of Nathan is to a large part modeled after Lessing's lifelong friend, the eminent philosopher Moses Mendelssohn.

* The Grass is Singing page at Doris Lessing's website

Lessing's " Ringparabel " in the drama " Nathan der Weise " is considered a key text of the Enlightenment and helped in the formulation of the idea of tolerance.

Doris Lessing's Southern Rhodesia novel The Grass is Singing was adapted into a film by a Swedish company and released in 1981.

It is not news that Nathan Milstein is a wizard of the violin.

It is listed by Nathan Bailey ( 1742 ) as meaning " the knowledge of the nature of man " ( OED ).

" Nathan Dane, the primary author of the Northwest Ordinance, viewed this provision as a default mechanism in the event that federal or territorial statutes were silent about a particular matter ; he wrote that if " a statute makes an offence, and is silent as to the mode of trial, it shall be by jury, according to the course of the common law.

Nathan states that certain commonalities allow college students to cohere: " What holds students together, really, is age, pop culture, a handful of ( recent ) historical events, and getting a degree " ( qtd.

In addition to funding the construction of the output mechanism for the Science Museum's Difference Engine No. 2, Nathan Myhrvold commissioned the construction of a second complete Difference Engine No. 2, which is currently on exhibit at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

" David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem, intending to build a temple, but God, speaking to the prophet Nathan, is pleased, saying the temple will be built.

" The prophet Nathan confronts David, saying: " Why have you despised the word of God, to do what is evil in his sight?

It is widely believed by historians that Federalist newspaper editors Nathan Hale, Benjamin and John Russell were the instigators, but the historical record gives no definitive evidence as to who created or uttered the word for the first time.

Psychologists such as Alan S. Kaufman and Nathan Brody and statisticians such as Bernie Devlin argue that there are insufficient data to conclude that this is because of genetic influences.

A sign erected by the Israeli ministry of religions says that this is Jonah's burial site, but according to Jewish traditions this is the location of the burial of the prophets Nathan and Gad Hahozeh.

On their honeymoon, the couple is immediately psychically transported 2000 years into the future to raise Cyclops ' son Nathan, who had been transported to the future as an infant in hopes of curing him of a deadly virus.

Jean begins to suspect that Cyclops may still be alive and with the help of Nathan Christopher ( now the aged superhero " Cable "), is able to locate and free Cyclops of his possession by Apocalypse.

* chapter " The Graphic Works " is by Frank Zollner & Johannes Nathan.

The second-most prominent Natural Phonologist is Stampe's wife, Patricia Donegan ; there are many Natural Phonologists in Europe, though also a few others in the U. S., such as Geoffrey Nathan.

This is true of the tractate Makkot, the concluding portions of which were composed by his son-in-law, Rabbi Judah ben Nathan, and of the tractate Bava Batra, finished ( in a more detailed style ) by his grandson, the Rashbam.

* 1776 – Nathan Hale is hanged for spying during American Revolution.

" In a five star review for Empire Magazine, Ian Nathan wrote, " For those who delight in the Coens ' divinely abstract take on reality, this is pure nirvana " and " In a perfect world all movies would be made by the Coen brothers.

Mitridanes, holding Nathan in despite by reason of his courtesy, journeys with intent to kill him, and falling in with him unawares, is advised by him how to compass his end.

" The first use of the term is attributed to the Austrian Nathan Birnbaum, founder of a nationalist Jewish students ' movement Kadimah, who used the term in his journal Selbstemanzipation ( Self Emancipation ).

William Wells is commemorated in the naming of Wells Street, a north-south street and part of the original 1830 58-block plat of Chicago, while Nathan Heald is commemorated in the naming of Heald Square.