Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point McNamara even skimmed daringly close to saying that the U.S. has no moral or legal obligation to defend such beleaguered regimes as that of South Viet Nam. "Neither conscience nor sanity itself suggests that the U.S. is, should or could be the global gendarme," he said. "The U.S. has no mandate from on high to police the world and no inclination to do so. There have been classic cases in which our deliberate nonaction was the wisest policy of all. Where our help is not sought, it is seldom prudent to volunteer. Military force can help provide...
Ethical Culturists wince at being labeled atheists, but their basic premise is that man can help build himself a better society based on a rational morality and human cooperation without reference to belief in God. Founder of the movement was Felix Adler, a rabbi's son and professor of Hebrew and Oriental literature at Cornell, who reluctantly decided that there was no hope of reforming Judaism from within. Giving up religious practice, Adler in 1876 undertook a series of Sunday morning lectures on contemporary moral issues. Among his early followers was Samuel Gompers, first president of the American Federation...
Although nontheistic, Ethical Culture has legal recognition as a religion. Its ministers, called leaders, conduct marriage and funeral services and preside at Sunday morning meetings, which blend organ preludes and thoughtful moral lectures on issues of the day. Most of them have a practical knowledge of what they speak. Jerome Nathanson, chairman of the Fraternity of Leaders, heads the New York Committee to Abolish Capital Punishment. Another leader, Algernon Black, is active in SANE and the Euthanasia Society of America...
Ethical Culture is continually seeking out new problem areas of life where its moral purpose might help alleviate the sorrows of existence. Without forsaking its tradition of activism, the society is concerned about the intellectual problem of articulating a system of moral values and standards that can survive an age of relativism. More than ever, Ethical Culture stands firm in its belief that the society will always be a haven for spiritually minded men and women who desire to serve humanity without serving divinity as well...
...until the prosecution proves him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. As a result, the defendant may remain silent-while the jury scrutinizes his lawyer's every word for any hint of doubt as to his client's innocence. In this situation, says Freedman, the lawyer's moral dilemma is compounded by the American Bar Association's 1908 Canons of Ethics. While Canon 22 requires "candor" toward the court, Canon 37 tells the lawyer "to preserve his client's confidences," and Canon 15 commands his "entire devotion to the interest of the client." As Freedman sees...