Sentence examples for a moral injunction from inspiring English sources

But this ambiguity is also what gives the saying strength; it is never merely disembodied as a moral injunction from nowhere.

But there would be a moral injunction, and perhaps also a copy of the reminder sent to the local time bank.

A local proverb, although expressed in Arabic, captures well the sentiment of Soqotran pastoralists regarding their herds, as it offers a moral injunction against using animals as commodities for sale: 'Don't consider her as your capital [source of financial gains] and don't send her away from your home' (lā tahsubhā rāsmālak wa lā taba'dahā 'an dārak).

This discourse of waste, as a classificatory register, imposes a powerful moral injunction not to squander something potentially precious.

But, while his system of pricing by car model is goofy, his intent is idealistic, posited upon what some still regard as a profoundly moral injunction, "from each according to his ability... " (although Marx did not explicitly add, "to each according to his need for a blinking neon beer sign").

As pointed out earlier, Kumarila supported the thesis that all moral injunctions are meant to bring about a desired benefit and that knowledge of such benefit and of the efficacy of the recommended course of action to bring it about is necessary for instigating a person to act.

For example, Lewis would push the person who espouses the liberal adage, "Do whatever you want as long as you do not harm others," to recognize the binding moral injunction on which such a claim rests.

It has a stoicism, too, which seems to follow Stevens's aesthetic and moral injunction "not to think/ Of any misery in the sound of the wind,/ In the sound of a few leaves".

Yet to tell them to hurt no one, to be kind and honest, seems to me moral injunction enough – at least until they are grown up enough to make their own judgments.

The admonition to care for the stranger, i.e. the non-Israelite, appears no less than 36 times — making it the most frequently cited moral injunction of ancient Judaism.

This Hegelian account of the moral life, in which the self is fully realized by fulfilling its role in the social organism which grounds its duties, is clearly one which greatly attracted Bradley, and he seems never to have noticed the implicit tension between the metaphysical account of the self as necessarily social and the moral injunction to realize the self in society.