Word: moralisms
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...issue is not about moral absolutes, but whether the pursuit of truth is possible at all. If we are not understood as believing in everything equally, we are depicted as believing in only one thing absolutely. There is no longer room for the theoretical middle ground, where one spends one's life discussion. We can't avoid thinking. The thoughtless are always going to be the prisoners of other people's thoughts. American intellectual life has given us an easy way to believe anything we want...
...grew up believing in universities as places where everybody, particularly minorities, could be free of the old impediments and everyone had access to all these wonderful things. But I have since come to regard universities as much less reliable allies. My critics see extreme moral indignation. I have much more contempt for the disproportionately great pretensions and claims about their courage and beliefs than any real anger. But I didn't really write the book to settle accounts. My passion comes out of the sense of what's important and the freedom that comes through study and the concern...
...sitting there staring at them 24 hours a day” in foreign prisons was the only way to make sure that these suspects aren’t being tortured, then that is what the United States must do; it is a moral imperative. But it’s not the only way—the entire human-rights-flouting program of “extraordinary rendition” can be shut down and suspects can be detained and interrogated in the United States. Terrorism suspects are human beings; they must be given due process and the rights accorded...
...various legislators hammer out the moral and scientific implications of stem cell research, researchers at Harvard’s Stem Cell Institute eagerly await the bill’s passage, which would ultimately help the Institute acquire funding and enhance future experiments...
...bill, at present, is not guaranteed passage. Governor W. Mitt Romney sent a letter to Travaglini in early February citing moral justifications for his opposition to the creation of new embryos for research purposes. Romney wrote that “respect for human life is a fundamental element of civilized society” and that “lofty goals do not justify the creation of life for experimentation and destruction...