Sentence examples for a moral conception from inspiring English sources

And what makes Disraeli so interesting is that he, like Ed Miliband, believed in a moral conception of society beyond the narrow confines of the marketplace.

A political conception of justice is a moral conception generated from the fundamental ideas implicit in that society's public political culture.

A moral conception of personhood is held in African ethics, the conception that there are certain basic moral norms and ideals to which the conduct of the individual human being, if he is a person, ought to conform.

By characterizing privacy as a necessary context for love, friendship and trust, Fried is basing his account on a moral conception of persons and their personalities, on a Kantian notion of the person with basic rights and the need to define and pursue one's own values free from the impingement of others.

They argued that the definition of health inequities should be based on a moral conception of inter-group differences in health and its determinants and only such definition should guide interventions for improving population health (18).

On this view we can also explain why moral obligations have a transcendent character, which is important because "a genuinely moral conception of obligation must have resources for moral criticism of social systems and their demands".

Kant's moral theism contains a distinctly moral conception of God.

Another reason Rawls regards the original position as the appropriate setting for a social contract is implicit in his stated aim in A Theory of Justice: it is to discover the most appropriate moral conception of justice for a democratic society wherein persons regard themselves as free and equal citizens (TJ viii/xviii).

"I don't see the point of existence without some kind of moral conception of the world," Veronica, who is publishing a book on Darfur, says.

After so many decades of the lightweight and derivative, how refreshing to come face to face with Watts and his "great moral conception of life, its difficulties, duties, pains and penalties".

But Burt sees Lincoln as a historicist for whom our moral conceptions emerge only over time and in ways that we can never fully comprehend.