Word: moral
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...other "losers" in life, the poor, Scalia appears less sympathetic, consistently voting against claimants to government aid. Because welfare comes without the efforts at moral uplift that accompanied religious charity, he told an audience in May, "the result is often the elimination of poverty without the elimination of the vices that produce the poverty...
Though he sometimes sounds like a champion of the status quo, with all its inequities, Scalia points out that it is not the court's job to decide what is right, only what is constitutional. When his fellow Justices cast themselves as moral arbiters, as he insisted they did in the V.M.I. case, their enterprise, he wrote, "is not the interpretation of a Constitution, but the creation of one." The one we have suits Scalia just fine...
Willard Van Orman Quine, Pierce professor of philosophy emeritus, was named the winner of the 1996 Inamori Foundation's Kyoto Prize in Creative Arts and Moral Sciences last Friday...
...Kyoto Prizes are given in three areas: Advanced Technology, Basic Sciences, and Creative Arts and Moral Sciences. Each year these general areas are narrowed to more specific subfields. This year the subfields are the information sciences, life sciences and philosophy...
...Statement may have a classic thriller's plot--a character on the run, private power plays behind public facades--but it unfolds in a moral universe infinitely more complex and compromised than the white hats vs. the black hats so typical of the genre. The novel asks not only who is trying to murder Brossard but also why Brossard has been able to remain in France for 44 years, receiving asylum from various Roman Catholic monasteries, and a 1971 presidential pardon for the crimes he committed during the German occupation and the Vichy regime...