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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"moral law"”.
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Humanity in the Balance: The Relationship Between the Moral Law and the Promotion of the Moral World in Kant's Ethics
… between two seemingly divergent approaches to morality. On the one hand, there are those who take the view that morality concerns itself with the promotion of certain ends. This is a teleological or consequentialist view of ethics. On the other hand, we see thinkers who take the view that …
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A Thomistic Appraisal of the Philosophy of Henry George
<p>The first principle of the moral law, written alike in the natures of Christians and their adversaries, accounts for such unity pf purpose as can be found in the conflicting social theories of the present day. The desire to establish justice has supported some of the most noble and some of the …
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Freedom and nature in Schelling's philosophy of Art
… can only approximate its object, which is the moral law. (2) While both the natural organism and the artwork embody the same identity of real and ideal, of necessity and freedom, the work of art overcomes these oppositions through the identity of conscious and unconscious production, whereas …
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Kant, Skepticism, and Moral Sensibility
… that feeling has a pos- itive role to play in moral life. But the exact nature of this role is far from clear. As much as Kant insists that moral action must proceed from a feeling of respect, he maintains with equal insistence that the objective basis of acting from duty must come from …
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Samuel Rutherford's Response to the Antinomian Controversy in England and its Impact on His Doctrine of Sanctification
… of all justified persons to obey the Moral Law, and (3) all justified persons are obliged to pursue sanctification. Rutherford, in tandem with his companions, are convinced that the Antinomians reject believers’ obligation to pursue sanctification, because they reject the first two …
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Emil Brunner's theological anthropology a Neo-Thomistic critique
… God’s gracious act, he cannot be truly good or moral apart from the self-understanding and ‘goodness’ conferred upon him through special revelation. 2. The critique of Brunner’s doctrine of man follows the same topical format. In the first section, we have argued that Brunner’s strict division …
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The political relevance of the spiritual church : a theological critique and alternative to the Presbyterian doctrine of the "spirituality of the church."
… a political question beyond the relevance of the moral law found in scripture which the church has authority to apply. I offer an alternative understanding of the church’s role, within Presbyterian two kingdoms theology, that avoids these problems, by way of theological exposition of concepts …
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Natural teleology and Kant’s duties to oneself as an animal being
"In the ""Metaphysics of Morals,"" Kant appears to claim that there is a category of duties to oneself, known as the duties to oneself as animal beings, that is based in the natural teleology of the natural appetites (self-love, the desire for sex, and the desire for food). Commentators, rightly …
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Regarding evil
… the usefulness of colloquia and the discourse of Moral Law included "How then can we speak to/of evil while choosing to sidestep the subject using rhetorical strategies at the risk of sacrificing symbolic power?" "Must we rely on the performative death act to regain this symbolic power?" Including …
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Situations, incentives and reasons. Kant on rational agency and moral motivation
… model of rational agency that underlies Kant's moral philosophy. These I call the problem of experiential incongruence and the problem of misdirected moral attention. The former problem arises because the central elements of Kant's theory of action (the possession of and action upon maxims; the …
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Social justice after Kant: Between constructivism and deconstruction (Rawls, Habermas, Levinas, Derrida)
… for justice s failure, discovering, in Kant s moral law, a principle of responsibility for the particular other which conflicts with impartiality. Distinguishing himself from both the reconstructive tradition and Levinas, Derrida affirms, in part through his readings of Kant, the undecidability …
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A Theological Framework for Assessing Verbal Oppression in Marriage
… according to his purposes, and conform to his moral standards, to the benefit of their spouses and their marital covenant. Because the chief design purpose of language is love that builds up, verbal spousal oppression constitutes egregious violations against God, the spouse, and the marital …
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Freedom in the thought and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
… both protect and provide freedom; and that the moral law of God is on the side of freedom. Questions for further consideration arise out of this dissertation. Is King's dream too utopian? Is he attempting to overcome the harsh reality that one's existence is a struggle against the forces that …
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The influence of Henrik Ibsen on modern dramatists.
… who, as in Shakespeare's plays, defies some moral law and then suffers his just punishment, but one who has to suffer and succumb to certain complex situations in his life over which he has no power or control. Plays which deal with such situations do not attempt a solution at all, but end …
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Eksistensi hakim sebagai speaker of law dan speaker of justice: Perspektif hukum positif dan hukum Islam
… di Indonesia seharusnya sarat dengan etis dan moral. Penegakan hukum seharusnya dapat memberi manfaat atau berdaya guna bagi masyarakat. Di sisi lain masyarakat juga mengharapkan adanya penegakan hukum untuk mencapai keadilan. ENGLISH The dynamic of law always develops along with people’s live …
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Slavery exacts an impossible price: John Quincy Adams and the Dorcas Allen case, Washington, DC
… tensions in the District of Columbia between the moral law and the codified law within the context of the antislavery and abolitionist petitions presented to Congress. It argues that her predicament connects directly to the ideological, legal, and moral questions which arose from the abolitionist …
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Passionate craftsmanship: the artistry of Charlotte Brontë's <i>Jane Eyre</i> and <i>Villette</i>
… independence, love, and fidelity to God's moral law.</p> <p>Chapter four deals with the poetic technique of <em>Villette</em> by way of a close reading of chapter 41, "Faubourg Clotilde"; and chapter five demonstrates one of the symbolic means Charlotte Brontë employs to depict Lucy Snowe’s …
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Apartheid now : the private lives of others
… which incorporates within its very definition a moral responsibility to others, and which is therefore automatically limited by the conditions of its own exercise. It is my view that freedom, conceived in this way, leads ineluctably to a mandate to respect and promote the dignity of all others. …
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Augustine of Hippo: On Justification by Faith
… doctrines such as the work of Christ, the law, and God’s grace. I also examine both continuity and development across other relevant early-, mid-, and later-career writings. By asserting both comprehensiveness and consistency of Augustine’s views on justification over time, my findings …
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La conciencia moral: entre la libertad racional y la represión cultural
Este estudio se preocupa por pensar la noción de moral, siguiendo el punto de vista de Immanuel Kant y Sigmund Freud, con la finalidad de rastrear los fundamentos teóricos y filosóficos que nos permitan dar respuesta a la pregunta: ¿en virtud de qué cumplimos con leyes morales? ¿cuál es la …