Word: moralizer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Third misconception: Divestment is only a "moral statement." Divestment and disinvestment are the most prominent and important demands South Africans have made of Americans, and will contribute materially to the South African struggle by removing one of the most important props of the apartheid regime--the American corporations...
There must be a recognition of the moral values that law presupposes, Habermas said...
Laws must be justified by and cannot be divorced from moral principles, world-renowned philosopher Jurgen Habermas told a near-capacity Sanders Theater crowd last night at the first of two Tanner Lectures on Human Values...
Habermas attacked Weber's theory on the bases of legal rationality for failing to "take ethical formalism seriously." The early 20th-century philosopher, Habermas said, "did not distinguish the influence of values from the moral ordinance of laws...
...speaker said legality does not derive from the rational but rather from the moral, adding, "Morality no longer is suspended above...