Word: moral
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...places where faith begins to reappear are those where science and technology fail or fall short. You may look back at us and say that no age in history ever grappled with so many painful and complicated moral problems, but you will also see that no age did so much to create them. Thanks to our dogged inventiveness, we are now in a position to keep a body functioning as a biological organism without allowing it real life. We know everything about sex, except how to keep teenage girls from pregnancy. We are on the verge of being able...
...yourself education for undergraduates are lunging back to the basic, orderly curriculums of the past. In art and architecture too, one begins to feel a resistance to the antihuman cant of modernism. It is not quite so chic to be modern anymore, not a necessary declaration of one's moral and aesthetic worth. We ride on a supersonic vehicle from our century into yours, yet a great many seats are facing backward...
...Does your world revere the past -- not us, specifically, but the past in general? That might be a Christmas gift from us to you: the assurance that a knowledge of the past is far more valuable than a knowledge of the future, being that by which moral action is educated...
...useful container for moral release...
...Secular humanism addresses a similar range of questions and plays a similar role as religion does," Strike said. "If moral issues are going to be discussed in school, you have to teach religious and secular views...