Word: moralizer
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Allan Bloom, the best-selling moral philospher, speaking at the Kennedy School (12/9/88...
Last month a life-and-death moral crisis in Jerusalem showed the dehumanizing gulf that has formed between the two sides. An elderly Arab man lay dying from an Israeli bullet. In a hospital across town, an elderly Jewish man lay dying for lack of a functional heart. A transplant could have saved his life. The Jewish family asked, the Arab family refused. Both men died...
Sharfstein's argument is based on the new Heritage Dictionary's definition of murder. What Sharfstein unfortunately overlooks is the fact that the issues which he raises hinge on a moral dialogue, and that such a discussion should not and cannot be based on literary definitions. Whether the killing of animals can be called murder or not does not change the fact that the lives of the animals are being taken from them, and that the motivations for this killing (and the mistreatment which frequently precedes it) arises quite often from the moral vacuum of purely economic considerations rather than...
...been a curious time to grow up in America, and the answer of authority, as espoused by William J. Bennett (who will now redirect his no-saying from financial aid to drugs), was a call for a greater "moral discipline" or a return to the past. Of course what we really need is more attention to the moral questions--not just the old answers--along with the rigorously trained minds and modern educations capable and desirous of reflecting on them. But usually, we've been thinking about something else...
Most schools are taking a tough stand against bigotry. Last October, after the independent conservative paper Dartmouth Review compared college president James Freedman, who is Jewish, to Hitler, the trustees denounced the editors for "ignorance and moral blindness." Months earlier, the university had taken sterner action, suspending three Review staffers for harassing a black professor of music. However, reinstatement of the students was ordered this month by a superior-court judge, and they are now suing the university for breach of contract, arguing that it did not live up to its bylaws, which guarantee free expression...