True to the Protestant ethic, his highly moral action brings him even greater material wealth.

The underlying problem with social conservatives is that they don't trust people's moral action to exceed what the law requires.

But there was still a role for guilt in moral action, as a necessary disincentive.

Instead, his views about where the world was headed generally arose out of advocacy for what he saw as moral action.

There is no moral action in Christian life except the act of love.

There, he defended the traditional Thomistic account of moral action and the virtues.

All the moral actions are thus the result of a "duty towards nature".

Only moral agents are able to engage in moral action.

And that facts provide no clear guide to moral action.

Urgent human, political and moral action needs to be taken.