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Two concepts of the moral life.
One way of tracking the movement of a civilization is to follow the evolution of thought and sentiment in the moral life. The moral life is not, of course, any particular moral system, but the daily flow of thoughts and desires we experience as we respond to a sense that there is some right thing we ought to be doing. People have very different ideas, of course, about what the right thing is, and that is my theme. The situation is further complicated by the fact that very few styles of morality ever disappear entirely, so that Britain (for example) is morally a vast patchwork of responses to the world, responses that are constantly changing. Such changes can to some extent ...
- Friendship and the Moral Life.
- Magazine article from: The Review of Metaphysics Cuddeback, John A. June 1, 1993 700+ words
...for another way to think about the moral life" (p. xiii). An understanding of...asserts, friendship is the center of the moral life itself. In this book Wadell seeks to...establish the centrality of friendship in the moral life, and to expound some implications of...
- Happiness and the Christian Moral Life: An Introduction to Christian...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century Charry, Ellen T. May 6, 2008 700+ words
Happiness and the Christian Moral Life: An Introduction to Christian Ethics...happiness lies in the cultivation of the moral life. His is an exercise in virtue ethics...Wadell suggests that the Christian moral life--is the Christian life any other...
- SHAPING THE MORAL LIFE: AN APPROACH TO MORAL THEOLOGY.(Review)
- Magazine article from: Theological Studies POPE, STEPHEN J. September 1, 2001 700+ words
SHAPING THE MORAL LIFE: AN APPROACH TO MORAL THEOLOGY. By...appropriate understanding of the Christian moral life. D. emphasizes the centrality of goodness for ethics and the fact that the moral life makes a claim on the whole person, particularly...
- Liberalism and the Moral Life.
- Magazine article from: National Review Sobran, Joseph November 24, 1989 700+ words
Liberalism and the Moral Life, THE CONTRIBUTORS to Liberalism and the Moral Life, edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum of Brown University, are concerned to respond to the charge that liberalism is a desiccated doctrine, indifferent to moral and communal...
- The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine.(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Mississippi Quarterly CIUBA, GARY M. June 22, 2000 700+ words
The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine, edited by Carl Elliott and John Lantos. Durham...brought together in The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine have certainly read Percy. Sometimes the writers...
- On the role of conscience, sin and love: the moral life and Catholic...
- Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Kollar, Nathan May 20, 2005 700+ words
...to love. These, then, are the experiences upon which all moral life must be grounded: 1) God's love and our response, 2...virtues. The Ten Commandments were not central to Christian moral life for the first 1,500 years of our tradition. The seven deadly...
- Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life.(Book...
- Magazine article from: The Christian Century December 4, 2002 700+ words
...Verhey places the scripture's story of Jesus at the center of the moral life without reducing theological ethics to story. While he insists that...irenically and methodically through the complex issues of the Christian moral life.
- Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life.(Book...
- Magazine article from: Currents in Theology and Mission Pilgrim, Walter E. October 1, 2005 700+ words
...Remembering Jesus: Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life. By Allen Verhey. Grand Rapids and Cambridge: Eerdmans...hence the subtitle "Christian Community, Scripture, and the Moral Life." There is good reason the Christian Century (January 2003...
