Word: moralize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...some measure, we occupy the stations we do for reasons outside of our control. Contrary to what objectivists might think, no one chooses to be born rich, Pequot, female or handicapped. Each individual in a real society exercises varying degrees of agency. Undeniably, we are all bearers of moral luck. And at this point, the core of the old debate is revealed. Again, I paraphrase Professor Kennedy...
...Cult of Moral Grayness," Rand deconstructs the logic of those who assert life is more gray than black and white: "If there is no black and white, there can be no gray--since gray is merely a mixture of the two." How perfectly poetic! How superbly simplistic! (Rand must have been exempt from Lit. & Arts A.) Try mixing yellow, blue and red, my dear...
...mysterious plane crash, rumors swirled that the child actor turned rock star had set the craft ablaze free-basing cocaine. Today's telecitizens like to view tragedies involving high-profile victims as either retributions for evil or sacrifices of perfect innocence, and it will be interesting to see what moral is drawn to deflect and ease the sting of this...
There were some factual errors in your article "The Chairman of Virtue Inc.," about Bill Bennett and the success of his campaign for better moral values in America [NATION, Sept. 16]. Your story said Bennett was at the home of our parents Charles and Helen Frankel in 1979 on the day prior to their murders. He was not. You described the residence as a "mansion"; it was a seven-room ranch house. And finally, the burglars who committed the murders were not "found to have been high on amphetamines." Drug use was never implicated as a factor in the crime...
...represent excellence," he told Family Circle in 1993). In 1987 he told TIME, "We have plans for each of them. Some of it may be dictatorial, but we think it's a great idea. We take it as far as we can in terms of education and moral behavior...