Browsing by Subject "Virtues"

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    Is There a Constitutional Common Good?
    (Elsevier, 2021-03-17) Wright, R. George; Robert H. McKinney School of Law
    Identifying and pursuing some widely shared idea of the common good seems central to a sustainable constitutional order. This may seem especially true in an era of deep political division. The problem, though, is that such political division may indeed heighten the need for recognizing and promoting a shared constitutional common good, while at the same time preventing just such an identification and pursuit of any such common good. What is needed is a way to disrupt this vicious circle. Herein, we illustrate the operation of this vicious circle. We conclude, however, more optimistically, that this vicious circle can ultimately be disrupted. To some degree, increased attention to familiar basic virtues can perform this vital constructive role.
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    What is conscience and why is respect for it so important?
    (The final version is available from www.springerlink.com., 2008) Sulmasy, Daniel P.
    The literature on conscience in medicine has paid little attention to what is meant by the word 'conscience.' This article distinguishes between retrospective and prospective conscience, distinguishes synderesis from conscience, and argues against intuitionist views of conscience. Conscience is defined as having two interrelated parts: (1) a commitment to morality itself; to acting and choosing morally according to the best of one's ability, and (2) the activity of judging that an act one has done or about which one is deliberating would violate that commitment. Tolerance is defined as mutual respect for conscience. A set of boundary conditions for justifiable respect for conscientious objection in medicine is proposed.