The phrase "a moral criterion" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing standards or principles that guide ethical decision-making or judgments.
Example: "In evaluating the actions of the organization, we must apply a moral criterion to determine their ethical implications."
Alternatives: "an ethical standard" or "a moral benchmark".
At least one such condition is a moral criterion: a transaction is exploitative only if it is unfair.
While uncertainty about outcomes can complicate ethical analysis, it is not a moral criterion itself, as sometimes suggested in the recent debate (Lanphier and Urnov, 2015).
One strand of her argument is that, unlike a person, a moral criterion can rank any given alternatives just one way.
Why would anyone strain the moral criterion of last resort, as a significant number of religious people do, in a way that makes it clear that virtually no military action, short of repelling perhaps a full-scale enemy attack already launched on the nation's territory, would ever meet it?
Hutcheson's moral criterion was whether or not an act tends to promote the general welfare of mankind.
Last month, the Christian Democrats Movement, a socially conservative opposition party, introduced a series of constitutional amendments that would explicitly prohibit both same-sex marriage and "propaganda of homosexuality and indecency," and enforce a vague list of "moral criteria," to which public officials must adhere.
The 1947 Nuremberg Code, drafted as a response to the medical experiments performed under national-socialism, can be seen as a first international policy attempt to define moral criteria for scientific conduct (Annas & Grodin 1992).
Calling himself "very French," he said that eroticism is for him a "space of freedom and rebellion, liberated from moral criteria".
The firm says there's an equal emphasis placed on investment performance and moral criteria.
Instead, Goodpaster advocates the introduction of moral criteria in management decision-making as an antidote.
The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticised a budget Ryan put forward as failing to meet certain "moral criteria".
