pre-moral

When the laws of the United States prohibited abortion, then compliance with those laws arguably reduced the degree of freedom involved, thereby moving the decision not to have an abortion into the domain of a pre-moral act.

Why Obama Should Shun the Pope's Views on Abortion 2009

In Healing the Shame That Binds You (Health Communications, 2005), John Bradshaw has suggested that the domain of pre-moral acts is probably very large as a result of the inner psychological conditions such as the toxic shame that he discusses that limit the degree to which we are truly free to act.

Why Obama Should Shun the Pope's Views on Abortion 2009

That's one reason why Catholic rule-utilitarians, otherwise known as "proportionalists," speak of the "pre-moral" goods we're supposed to be maximizing.

Archive 2007-06-01 Mike L 2007

That's one reason why Catholic rule-utilitarians, otherwise known as "proportionalists," speak of the "pre-moral" goods we're supposed to be maximizing.

Why only God can, and may, be a utilitarian Mike L 2007

Those have to be taken as givens, but in the controversial cases the problem is often precisely what the given "pre-moral" goods ought to be.

Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006

Those have to be taken as givens, but in the controversial cases the problem is often precisely what the given "pre-moral" goods ought to be.

Educated moral imbecility Mike L 2006

Perhaps we are entering a post-narrative world, or I am--because the only movies that excite me are movies like this or those by Terry Malick, because they operate in an apolitical, pre-moral zone of the Imaginary.

"Gibson is a primitive all right, but so were Cecil B. DeMille and D. W. Griffith, and somehow we survived their idiocies." Ann Althouse 2006

Since the Church has never allowed that one may recommend the choice of any morally evil course of action, are we to assume that he is in the proportionalist business of calculating 'pre-moral' evils?

The Catholic condom debate II Mike L 2006

Since the Church has never allowed that one may recommend the choice of any morally evil course of action, are we to assume that he is in the proportionalist business of calculating 'pre-moral' evils?

Archive 2006-05-01 Mike L 2006

Kohlberg's moral-dilemma tests will assign pre-schoolers and even early elementary-school children to a pre-moral level

The Philosophy of Childhood Matthews, Gareth 2005