Article: Morality and self-sacrifice, martyrdom and self-denial.(Essay)

Article: Bending the rules; morality in the modern world, from relationships to politics and war.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Reference & Research Book News;  May 1, 2008 ;     102 words ......the understanding of human morality. He explores how individuals acquire their moral outlook, how they choose to act or not act morally, how moral rules and values evolve over time, and the social function of moral rules. He considers these issues in terms of...

Article: The Ethical Teacher.(Book Review)
Catholic New Times;  March 6, 2005 ;     700+ words ......documenting the expectations teachers place on themselves, both to act morally and to teach morality. Teachers' stories reveal the values...impact negatively on teachers' confidence in their ability to act morally. Also, misunderstood loyalty to and solidarity with colleagues...

Article: Perot/Choate. (crime prevention policy of presidential candidate Ross Perot and running mate)(Election '96)
Corrections Today;  October 1, 1996 ;     700+ words ......depreciating the family unit in our society. In a free society, parents have the primary responsibility to teach their children to act morally and ethically. We must teach our children to avoid alcohol, drugs, crime and gangs. Drug Control America's War on Drugs in...

Article: Hoover Essays in Public Policy: The Right to Private Property by Tibor R. Machan.
Business Wire;  October 10, 2002 ;     420 words ......solid moral foundation. Private property rights can be shown to have a significant moral value, he writes. If people are to act morally, everyone needs to know one's scope of personal authority and responsibility. One needs to know that some valued item, skill...

Article: How do you get to Carnegie Hall? Practice, practice, practice. (teaching virtue)(Living Humanism)
The Humanist;  July 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ......defend the fatherland and for the purity of the master race. Rather, courage is a means to morality; without it, we cannot act morally under trying circumstances. And without the ability to act in the face of danger, our purported convictions ring hollow. But...

Article: Hope teases Mexico City as democracy glimmers. (new mayor, Cuauhtemoc Cardenas causes the city's impoverished to hope for a better day)
National Catholic Reporter;  January 16, 1998 ;     700+ words ......respond to the people, said Fr. Manuel Zubillaga Vazquez, general director of the church-based Caritas programs. I think, at this moment, he must act morally, because the people elected him. He's not going to respond to the dedazo (power through poli

Article: Karen Halasa on Syriana.(Movie review)
Arena Magazine;  June 1, 2006 ;     700+ words ......fundamentalism and US imperialism, but to the more complex ambient theme of the film: how is an individual to find a way to act morally, responsibly, for the greater good in such an incomprehensibly complex and corrupt world? What difference can individual actions...

Article: Richardson, Samuel (1689 – 1761)
Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World;      700+ words ......Britishness. Richardson was asked by the Society for the Encouragement of Learning to write a book of model letters on how to act morally in different situations. Richardson's first novel Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded (1740 – 1741) developed from a further...

Article: (book reviews)
The Christian Century;  December 6, 1995 ;     529 words ......theology based on the Apostles' Creed, it quickly becomes evident that systematic theology is a task of the laity. Laypeople act morally in the world, cry out in anguish and gratitude, and confess Christ against competing allegiances. Thielicke has been to the...

Article: God, Evil, and Design: An Introduction to the Philosophical Issues.(Book review)
The Christian Century;  December 2, 2008 ;     700+ words ......or impossibility of God reaches its limit. It seems logically possible that God could have created free humans who always act morally; it is also logically possible that our freedom inevitably leads to sin. God is at least logically possible--but by an implausible...

Article: Moral development in fraternity members: a case study.
College Student Journal;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......generally agreed that American higher education has a clearly defined role in developing individuals who can both think and act morally (p. 47). Research during the last 30 years has shown that moral development is an important outcome of the college experience...

Article: A mandate to teach character.(importance of moral education)
Education Next;  June 22, 2005 ;     595 words ......is such education livelier and more likely to maintain students' attention, but it is also the key to moral motivation. To act morally, we have to be moved; we have to feel something. Affective education and moral education should work together to produce good...

Article: Israeli policies criticized: WCC joins local Palestinian Christians in call to use investments to pressure Jewish state.(news)
Presbyterian Record;  September 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ......those who carry out violent, unethical, immoral, and illegal actions, saying Christians have a God-given responsibility to act. Morally responsible investment is a means of enacting our obligation to prevent any assistance or participation in the violations...

Article: Stem cell dilemma: do potential benefits of research outweigh ethical risks?(Bioethics: stem cell research)
National Catholic Reporter;  June 18, 2004 ;     700+ words ......unable or have had difficulty getting pregnant, would not be prohibited under the bill. On its face, the bill would outlaw an act morally distasteful to many Americans. But it would also criminalize a biomedical research procedure called somatic cell nuclear transfer...