Word: moralizers
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...Arthur Hundert (Kevin Kline), a teacher at St. Benedict’s School for Boys, spends much of his time attempting to mold his students’ moral character with short, quotable maxims. Indeed, a history class turns into a lesson in principle as he warns, “Great ambition and onquest without contribution is without significance.” Sadly, Kline’s latest movie, The Emperor’s Club, is exactly that—a film that doesn’t contribute much to audience enjoyment and has little significance amid the torrent...
...intelligent use thereof. Some speakers are presumably so egregiously offensive that common sense would dictate that they not be invited; evidently, those who deny Israel’s right to exist and call for the “shooting” of Jews are not among them. This moral obscenity speaks for itself...
...lecture, Sandel used the approach of moral analogy, asking, “How does a stem cell cloning stand morally when compared to several analogous practices...
...been abridged by those who would “protect” our tender sensibilities from an encounter with the controversial. It is not Paulin who is deprived; it is we who are denied the right of a University citizenship to decide for ourselves. No argument of analogy, moral or otherwise, is a sufficiently acceptable substitute for participation in a real argument. I associate myself with the views on this particular point of Professors Dershowitz, Fried and Tribe, and think it a sad day for our “Republic of Letters” when we cannot hear that which...
...When we work like this, it destroys moral and productivity,” Price said...