Word: moralize
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...bring pressure to bear on theadministration until they grant us that meeting,"he said. "We've the moral high ground...
Decades of police abuse have completely destroyed inner-city residents' confidence in the criminal-justice system, argues Elijah Anderson, a social scientist at the University of Pennsylvania, in his forthcoming book, Code of the Streets: Decency, Violence and the Moral Life of the Inner City. The result is an every-man-a-vigilante mentality that makes violence inevitable. "Even decent people in inner-city neighborhoods are so distrustful of the police that they feel they have no choice but to take matters of personal defense into their own hands," says Anderson. "Instead of relying on the police to protect them...
Students who took moral reasoning or philosophycourses made especially large gains in theirwriting, something Sommers attributes to the "verydifferent kind of writing and topics" in thosetypes of classes...
...Students must learn to close read and to arguea point, and our hypothesis is that these twothings--close reading and arguing--are important"in writing for philosophy and moral reasoningclasses, she says...
...forget, but "diversity" is not the same as social justice. The time has come for us all to re-examine the dangerous logic implicit in some of our "rahrah diversity" claims. True progressive thought, according to Professor Cornel West, overcomes racialized ways of thinking and replaces it with moral thinking. It dares to critique even the "minority" component of the establishment to work towards social justice for all disempowered peoples...