Word: moralisms
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...have your own religious and moral views changed throughout the course of your life? What has had the greatest impact on them...
...illustrate the universality of certain moral intuitions, Hauser presented two hypothetical options for saving a group of seven people in a closed room—pressing a button to divert poisonous gas from the room or pushing a person into a ventilation shaft to stop the gas from reaching the room...
...cases of moral judgment that fall outside the norm—martyrdom, for instance—Hauser and co-author Ilkka Pyysiäinen of the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies propose that religion, much like legal institutions, exerts its own pressure on people’s moral judgments after it emerged from natural cognitive processes...
...decline. Its democracy remains the region's strongest, but it has been rocked in recent years by a spate of high-level government corruption scandals, a spike in drug-trafficking violence and a widening gap between rich and poor. Costa Rica's image as Central America's moral authority also took a hit last year when Arias - who won the 1987 Nobel Peace Prize during his first presidency for brokering an end to the region's civil wars - was largely ignored in his efforts to resolve the Honduran coup crisis. (See Oscar Arias' fading legacy in Costa Rica...
...results of the presidential election, which opponents of Ahmadinejad say was fraudulent, has become a broader critique of the regime itself. Though most of the opposition's leaders still support Islamic government, they say the current leadership has abandoned both the democratic norms of the Republic and the moral legitimacy of Islam by abusing its own people...