Word: moralization
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...America that is sketched in passages such as that - one that does not claim a monopoly of wisdom; one that recognizes that the world has changed; one that does not argue that simply because America was founded on a great idea 232 years ago, it has a moral superiority over everyone else today - is an America to which others would listen. We will soon know if such an America is taking shape...
...dignity was given, of course, to a twelve-person committee of scholars—the Federal Ethics Committee on Non-Human Biotechnology (ECNH). The committee rose to the occasion by producing a 22-page report entitled: “The dignity of living beings with regard to plants. Moral consideration of plants for their own sake,” which went on to win the 2008 Ig Nobel Peace prize earlier this month.As expected, the report’s findings range from the silly to the surreal. The committee concludes that individual plants are excluded from “absolute...
Former Vice President Al Gore ’69 spoke to a massive crowd in Harvard Yard yesterday about both the dire risks facing the planet and the responsibility of universities, particularly Harvard, to assume moral leadership on the issue...
...Gore spoke about the University’s importance in generating not only scientific, but also moral and political leadership...
...marriage of one of his new staff members and accidentally caused the death of his best friend’s girlfriend, for which he shows no remorse. This is, of course, all in a day’s work for House, but he’s lost his moral tension, and the show is left to rely on awkward side stories involving a goofy private eye and increasingly uninteresting patients.Another show in a similar state of stagnation is “Dexter,” Showtime’s series about a serial killer who lives a double life...