Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most violent American films, like the Stallone-Willis-Schwarzenegger action pictures, are also among the most successful American film exports because their bang-bang simplicities translate easily across cultural boundaries. Says Democratic Senator Bill Bradley of New Jersey: "The free market that the economic conservatives champion undermines the moral character that the social conservatives desire...
...onassertions about authentic human nature is stillpossible after Darwinism remains a matter fordebate. Much of the book is spent attacking thenotion of essences and teleologies, yet Dennettdoesn't address how one could formulate any kindof human ethics without some essential conceptionof human nature. This question is not answered bythe Moral First Aid manual, and without answeringit Dennett cannot claim to have assuaged all ourfears about Darwinism...
...Consider the following set of courses: "Tiananmen Square," "Chinese family, marriage, and Kinship: A Century of Change," "Tradition and Transformation in East Asian Civilization: China," "The Emergence of Complex Society in Ancient China," "Ancient Chinese Art and Religion," "Cultural China and contemporary perspectives" and "Confucian Humanism: Self-Cultivation and Moral Community. "These courses together fill seven (of a possible ten) different Core areas, but no one could call the total a part of a broad education...
...reconcile continual questioning with the need to make decisions on contemporary issues? It is a question that is relevant far beyond the halls of an academic institution. Both qualities are not only beneficial, they are essential in society. Each of us, consciously or unconsciously, arrives at a moral or ethical system for making decisions, yet these systems are often unexamined and sometimes flawed...
...Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms "jack-booted thugs."("Those comments were referring to those specific cases where lives were lost or there was damage because of the ATF," he says). On abortion, Campbell says the debate is between those who put "self-interest" first versus those who believe in moral principles...