Word: moralisms
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...President's lapse is not just moral but historical. At first, he declared that he would put the past behind him: reopen no wounds, apportion no blame, visit no death camp. But one cannot pretend that the world began on V-E day 1945. One has to ask the question: Where did the new Germany come from? Some concession had to be made to history. The President decided to make it. And he chose precisely the wrong history...
...separates two German histories. The moral rebirth of Germany after the war was, and is, premised on a radical discontinuity with the Nazi past. The new Germany is built around the thin strand of decency, symbolized by people like Adenauer and Brandt, that reaches back to the pre-Nazi era. If history is what the President wants to acknowledge, it is this German history that deserves remembrance. For Kohl and Reagan to lay a wreath at Bitburg is to subvert, however thoughtlessly, the discontinuity that is the moral foundation of the new Germany...
...said Congressman Tony Coelho, a California Democrat. New Mexico Republican Pete Domenici, chairman of the Senate Budget Committee, called him "the most effective OMB Director we've ever had."[*] Even the Washington Post's editorialists, often critical of Stockman's cuts, commended him "for a kind of intellectual and moral integrity that is rarely found in national public life." Stockman was bemused by the shower of accolades. "I never knew I had so many well-wishers until I decided to leave," he quipped. "Now I know why they write obituaries...
...arguments about stock divestiture are the easier to follow. For most advocates, the issue is primarily moral. Says the Rev. Joseph Lowery, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference: "People who own stock in companies that do business in South Africa become indirect participants in the repression...
...Sanhedrin, the supreme council of the Jews, was to pass a series of sweeping measures that limited contacts with Gentiles. The School of Hillel, however, taught that righteous Gentiles merited a share in the world to come if they observed the seven so-called Noahide commandments, basic moral directives addressed to Adam and Noah in the Bible and binding all humanity. The usual Noahide list includes the obligation to help establish a system of justice, plus prohibitions against idolatry, blasphemy, theft, murder, sexual sins and cruelty to animals. According to Falk, the authoritative compendium of Jewish oral law and commentary...