Word: morality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human society can endure without agreement on certain fundamentals, e.g., why man is in the world, what is his purpose here and how he should try to fulfill it. In the 20th Century, this agreement is weak and fuzzy. Scientists have contributed to the moral confusion...
...Model School, Shaw thinks, that marked him for life. Out of its humiliations, he suddenly conceived "the birth of moral passion." Ignominy made him stand up for the first time ("When I was a boy I was a coward, and bitterly ashamed of it") and passionately demand respect-not only for himself but for his more humble schoolfellows. Humiliation made him a living example of his thesis that "the professional, penniless younger son classes are the revolutionary element in society: the proletariat is the conservative...
Would he "discuss the question of moral obligation to use armed force in resisting attack on one of the members?" That was the heart of the matter. Hold your hats, the Secretary warned, there's been a lot of loose thought on the distinction between moral and legal obligation. Decent people usually carry out their contracts because of moral obligation. Some decent people default in their contracts because they get in trouble one way or another, and then they go to court...
...conference has also been criticized by poet T. S. Eliot '10 as "an attempt to demoralize intellectual and moral integrity everywhere...
Ferociously anti-Communist during his long years of loyalty to the Gimo, Ho attended Buchmanite moral rearmament meetings while in the U.S., decided he must "fight idea with idea" rather than "force with force." After the Japanese surrender, Ho opposed Chiang's policy of attempting to hold Manchuria against the Communists. In 1948 he spurned Chiang's offer of the premiership...