Sentence examples for a moral feeling from inspiring English sources

It's a sensation rather than an event, a moral feeling remembered from the past and preserved in art, an awareness of an energy, which Constable called Divine.

This interpretation of envy's characteristic appraisal is more plausible, and it jibes better with the doctrine that envy is not a moral feeling.

Again, Bergson gives us many examples; but perhaps the easiest example to grasp is the feeling of sympathy, a moral feeling (Time and Free Will, pp. 18 19).

A fourth interpretation distinguishes two psychological states that might be called a moral evaluation: an occurrent feeling of approval or disapproval (which is not truth-apt), and a moral belief or judgment that is propositional.

Of course, Levinas's descriptions are presented under phenomenological bracketing, so this is not a philosophy of moral feeling or a psychology of empathy.

A more common view, however, is to see judgments of beauty not as grounded in morality, but rather, along with judgments of the sublime, as contributing to an account of moral feeling, and hence of how morality is possible for human beings (for a clear statement of the contrast between these views, see the introduction to Guyer 1993).

Here Kant sets out an account of moral feeling as identical with the feeling of respect for the law, describing it as "a feeling that is produced by an intellectual ground, and … the only one that we can cognize completely a priori and the necessity of which we can have insight into" (CPrR 5 73).

This is not, Sunstein believes, due only to pragmatism; it also stems from a sense that there is something worthy of respect in a strong and widespread moral feeling, even if it's wrong.

Enlisting in such a violent enterprise posed a difficult decision for a young man of his moral feeling and religious aspirations.

As early perhaps as 1772, Kant can be seen to be giving moral feeling a special status in relation to reason.

Borovikovsky's concept of portrait painting matured under their influence, assuming moral feeling as a basis of the image (in accordance with the principles of the literary movement of sentimentalism).