Moral arguments

Drinan, Robert E America Needs Gun Control If It Is to Call Itself a Civilized Society. National Catholic Reporter, vol. 27, May 24, 1991, p. 11. A passionate moral argument for gun control from noted liberal Catholic priest and social commentator Robert Drinan. 

Lackey, D. P. 2002. Clinical Research in Developing Countries Recent Moral Arguments. Cadernos de Saude Publica 18 1455-1461. 

These are not powerful arguments. In fact, they are so weak that they underline the essential correctness of the Capital Preface. Neither moral argument nor political reforms can create the conditions for successful borrowing if the level of material development is too low. "In the course of theirdevelopmentlmenlfirsthave toproducethematerialconditionsof a new society itself, and noexertionof mind or will can free them from this fate." ... 

I had already made this same point five years before (Ott 1985 Ott 1993b), in a book on chocolate addiction which treated our provincial and prejudiced attitudes toward drugs with ludibry. As Princeton Professor Nadelmann put it in his well-conceived "moral" arguments for the legalization of all drugs (Nadelmann 1989) ... 

The moral arguments are reflected by the occupational accident and disease rates. 

The same can be said for risk assessment, in so far as while assessments are required by law, the moral argument for reducing personal injuries and incidents of ill health by the use of risk control measures should also not be overlooked. The financial and economical... 

Michael Walzer, Just and Unjust Wars A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, 3rd edition (New York Basic Books, 2000), p. 254. 

Allen Buchanan argues persuasively for the need for a moral theory of international law in Justice, Legitimacy, and Self-Determination Moral Foundations for International Law (Oxford Oxford University Press, 2004). Michael Walzer engages in a deeply moral discussion of conventions of war in Just and Unjust Wars A Moral Argument with Historical Illustrations, 3rd ed. (New York Basic, 2000). For a good discussion of the need for normative theorizing, see Allen Buchanan and David Golove, Philosopy of International Law, in The Oxford Handbook of Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law, ed. J. Coleman and S. Shapiro (Oxford Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 868-934. 

The Stoic idea of the universe as the shared home of gods and men is central to the moral argument of On the Commonwealth it also underlies the argument about natural law in On... 

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