Examples of Moral Majority in the following topics:
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- As Ronald Reagan campaigned for President in 1980, some of his strongest supporters were members of the Religious Right, including Christian groups like the Moral Majority, 61% of whom voted for him.
- Notable leaders and groups within the Religious Right are Robert Grant's advocacy group Christian Voice, Jerry Falwell's Moral Majority, Ed McAteer's Religious Roundtable Council, James Dobson's Focus on the Family, and Pat Robertson's Christian Broadcasting Network.
- The birth of the New Christian right, however, is usually traced to a 1979 meeting where televangelist Jerry Falwell was urged to create a "Moral Majority" organization.
- Jerry Falwell's founding of the Moral Majority was a key step in the formation of the New Christian Right.
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- Humanism played a major role in education during the Renaissance with the goal to cultivate the moral and intellectual character of citizens.
- During the Renaissance, humanism played a major role in education.
- This was to be accomplished through the study of the humanities: grammar, rhetoric, history, poetry, and moral philosophy.
- Education during the Renaissance was mainly composed of ancient literature and history as it was thought that the classics provided moral instruction and an intensive understanding of human behavior.
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- Religion offered a moral sanction for opposing the British in the colonies.
- Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British—an assurance to the average American that revolution was justified in the sight of God.
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- Kolhberg's theory of moral development states that we progress through three levels of moral thinking that build on our cognitive development.
- He used the idea of moral dilemmas—stories that present conflicting ideas about two moral values—to teach 10 to 16 year-old boys about morality and values.
- After presenting people with various moral dilemmas, Kohlberg reviewed people’s responses and placed them in different stages of moral reasoning.
- Each level of morality contains two stages, which provide the basis for moral development in various contexts.
- This is achieved through majority decision and inevitable compromise.
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- Ethical or moral leadership demonstrates responsibility for doing what is right.
- Moral leadership means making decisions that respect the rights and dignity of others.
- Moral leadership is important for protecting an organization's reputation.
- Moral leadership goes beyond doing what is legal.
- In this way, moral leaders take responsibility for the moral climate in their organizations and help others understand, share, and act in accordance with those values.
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- People use moral reasoning in an attempt to do the right thing.
- Swaner, moral behavior has four components:
- Moral motivation, which is "a personal commitment to moral action, accepting responsibility for the outcome."
- Realizing good conduct, being an effective moral agent, and bringing values into one's work, all require skills in addition to a moral inclination.
- Moral creativity: Moral creativity is closely related to moral imagination, but it centers on the ability to frame a situation in different ways.
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- Moral development refers to changes in moral beliefs as a person grows older and gains maturity.
- Moral development refers to changes in moral beliefs as a person grows older and gains maturity.
- At the preconventional level, a child's sense of morality is externally controlled.
- Stage 1: Punishment and Obedience - In this stage, children find it hard to distinguish between two separate moral points of view, especially in a moral dilemma.
- At the postconventional or principled level, children can think of morals and values in an abstract way and begin to realize some moral dilemmas do not have a clear-cut, right or wrong answer.
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- A moral panic is a mass movement based on the perception that some individual or group, frequently a minority group or a subculture, poses a menace to society.
- These panics are generally fuelled by media coverage of social issues (although semi-spontaneous moral panics do occur and some moral panics have historically been fueled by religious missions, governmental campaigns, and scientific mobilizing against minority groups that used media outlets to further their claims), and often include a large element of mass hysteria.
- A moral panic is specifically framed in terms of morality, and usually expressed as outrage rather than unadulterated fear.
- Though not always, very often moral panics revolve around issues of sex and sexuality.
- Recent moral panics in the UK have included the ongoing tabloid newspaper campaign against pedophiles, which led to the assault and persecution of a pediatrician by an angry, if semi-literate, mob in August 2000, and that surrounding the murder of James Bulger in Liverpool, England in 1993.
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- Theories of consciousness include developmental, cultural, neural, computational, and moral perspectives.
- First appearing in the historical records of the ancient Mayan and Incan civilizations, various theories of multiple levels of consciousness have pervaded spiritual, psychological, medical, and moral speculations in both Eastern and Western cultures.
- Developmental psychologists view consciousness not as a single entity, but as a developmental process with potential higher stages of cognitive, moral, and spiritual quality.
- A major part of the modern scientific literature on consciousness consists of studies that examine the relationship between the experiences reported by subjects and the activity that simultaneously takes place in their brains—that is, studies of the neural correlates of consciousness.