Word: moral
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...union officials, Harvard to them is not only professors and students, but secretaries and janitors and book-checkers. And they feel that the administration, in its attempt to weigh dollars and cents, misses the bigger moral picture...
...results of the pending agreement will place 400 to 500 casuals onto the full-time payroll, but the University seems slow to deal with the wider moral questions surrounding the issue of casual employment. As a progressive institution that purports to value human dignity, collaboration, and experimentation, does Harvard have an extra responsibility to its employees...
HUCTW, which issued its own statement the next week, was a little more blunt in taking on the moral repurcussions of Harvard's "errors...
...There are some philosophical and moral questions imbedded in it which any reasonable person would care a lot about, but also it's an area where the University has some vulnerability to being sued and being shamed," Jaeger says...
...written this book back then, we both might have had more fun with Cartesian dualism and the like. Blackburn has produced the one book every smart person should read to understand, and even enjoy, the key questions of philosophy, ranging from those about free will and morality to what we can really know about the world around us. Alas, he is better at explaining doubts and skepticisms and moral relativism than at charting a path out of such dilemmas. But that was also the plight of Descartes, Locke, Hume and his other favorite Western philosophers...