Word: moralisms
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...model for how this critical discourse can occur. In 2007, students organized a series of panels entitled “Finding Animals” and “Animal Crossings,” in which legal scholars, philosophers, literary theorists, theologians, and artists discussed the social and moral status of animals. Over 300 members of the Harvard community attended, with biologists challenging panel members on animal experimentation and political scientists disputing the ramifications of granting legal protections to animals...
...scores from before the new coaches came in, they were wide,” Tillman said. “We like that those games are now tighter, but at the end of the day, our goal is to win them. We’re not looking for moral victories, we’re looking for Ws. If we don’t get them, we’re selling ourselves short. Our kids are good enough to win these games.” —Staff writer Madeleine I. Shapiro can be reached at mshapiro@fas.harvard.edu...
...midst of such a trying ordeal—and their individual narratives are knit together in vignettes that follow their respective arrests, interrogation, incarceration, and eventual exoneration. The theatrical presentation of these paralleled stories questions the presence of justice in the American legal system, while also delving into meaningful moral issues in a more personal and accessible way.“The more I think about the play, the more I realize it has a lot of things to do with perceptions of people—how negative perceptions or stereotypes can lead to horrible things,” Ayers...
...previous ban on research, Obama declared, was "a false choice between sound science and moral values"; Americans, he argued, should "harness the power of science to achieve our goals." (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...Leaders at the U.S. Catholic Bishops Conference denounced the decision, calling it "morally wrong." And a Vatican bioethics official criticized it as "a victory of politics over ethics." But what White House advisers didn't expect was the pained anger in the reactions of far more moderate Catholics. An editorial in the liberal Catholic magazine Commonweal accused Obama of "obfuscat[ing] the moral dilemma by resorting to imprecise talk about the supposedly self-evident authority of scientific 'facts' and the alleged ideological agenda of those opposed to embryonic-stem-cell research." At the website Beliefnet.com, religion writer David Gibson labeled...