Sentence examples for a moral connection from inspiring English sources

We would normally think that there is a moral connection between 'good' and 'ought', and that therefore a morally good act ought to be performed: if an act is morally good, then it ought to be performed.

But there's a moral connection, too--a connection of moral outrage.

The pain that each side of the proverbial aisle is feeling is great; on both sides strong enough so that many felt they had to push through conscious misgivings to cast a vote for a candidate that they had no moral connection with, no respect for.

I take it to be one of the greatest political poems in the language, for the way it insists on the right to life and freedom without qualification, uniting large things and small, and shows the moral connections between them: A Robin Red breast in a Cage Puts all Heaven in a Rage.

Unlike President Bush, who appeared to lead by a combination of instinct, connections and a moral conviction shaped by his faith, Obama seems more studied.

Understood this way, public health ethics has deep moral connections to broader questions of social justice, poverty, and systematic disadvantage.

But Mr Morris, who secured the debate, said that Britain had "a unique historical connection – and a moral responsibility to the people of both Israel and Palestine".

For Berry, the "why bother" question came down to a moral imperative: "Once our personal connection to what is wrong becomes clear, then we have to choose: we can go on as before, recognizing our dishonesty and living with it the best we can, or we can begin the effort to change the way we think and live".

But to count as a moral society, the interlocking or connection of the sharing and the receiving should not merely be the result of invisible hand dynamics.

Non-cognitivists have often supported their theory by arguing from versions of judgment internalism, which postulate a necessary connection between accepting a moral judgment on the one hand and being motivated to act on it on the other.

On this view, there is a necessary connection between moral claims and action, but it is between these claims (or their truth) and reason (or rationality), and is not such that sincerely embracing a moral claim guarantees appropriate motivation.