moral absolutism

The game deals with the issues of fundamentalism and moral absolutism.

The killer had learned moral absolutism in religious schools, and the uses of violence in the army.

More important, an entrenched moral absolutism has made it all too easy to ignore the cries of activists.

But moral absolutism is hard to swallow in hard doses."

Both efforts put moral absolutism before local pragmatism.

Ethical calculus would most accurately be regarded as a form of dynamic moral absolutism.

It would hardly seem necessary to insist on the perils of moral absolutism in our own tawdry age.

Such moderate pragmatism is a world away from the moral absolutism usually preached by business ethicists.

Moral absolutism looses fanaticism, a dangerous thing when nuclear weapons lie ready to a trembling hand.

Moral absolutism is a prerequisite for human atrocity.

There can be nothing but hubris in a position that substitutes one moral absolutism for another while pretending to offer humility.

Dear Prudence, by contrast, must radiate moral absolutism and be judgmental in the extreme.

Moral absolutism is relative, after all.

Conservative Republicans are occupying the territory of moral absolutism that moderate black politicians are abandoning.

Liberal theists are more likely to be proponents of moral relativism than moral absolutism.

Moral universalism is compatible with moral absolutism, but also positions such as consequentialism.

Moral absolutism - view that certain actions are absolutely right or wrong, regardless of other contexts such as their consequences or the intentions behind them.

Such moral absolutism is understandable.

On the contrary, it leads to its opposite - moral absolutism - since it presumes a universal standard by which to judge behavior.

(This is usually called moral absolutism).

A senior American official who is helping shape policy said, "Moral absolutism will not get us very far in Bosnia policy."

Moral absolutism is not the same as moral universalism (also called moral objectivism).

A majority appear to believe that the stability of government institutions is jeopardized if the law becomes the instrument of politically motivated moral absolutism.

Moral absolutism fears this act of choice and fears the freedom required by the act of choosing.