The phrase "a moral order" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to a system of ethics or principles that govern behavior within a society or community.
Example: "In times of crisis, many people look to establish a moral order to guide their actions and decisions."
Alternatives: "an ethical framework" or "a system of morality".
In short, Adam's argument is that it is demoralizing not to believe that there is a moral order in the universe, and demoralization is morally undesirable.
These novelists have paid their dues to society or a moral order".
Ignatieff concluded: A moral order is too large and impalpable an aim to be achieved by any commission.
This approach has repeatedly backfired, antagonizing and radicalizing Somalis who have turned to Islam as a framework for rebuilding a moral order.
Or it may, on the contrary, prove to be the force that persuades other people to rediscover a connection between day-to-day life and a moral order.
One critic points to his search for a moral order as a link to Shakespeare and sees in his moral vision a basis for renewal.
Havel reminds us often that a democratic legal order must be coupled always with a robust moral order, an ever-evolving set of civic virtues that tie the individual to his community.
Especially for religious dissidents, democracy is now seen as a keystone of a more moral order, where the faith can no longer be used to countenance dictatorship.
Wright argues that each of the major Abrahamic faiths has been forced toward moral growth as it found itself interacting with other faiths on a multinational level, and that this expansion of the moral imagination reflects "a higher purpose, a transcendent moral order".
A just war restores a violated moral order.
A group of renowned French philosophes -- Diderot, Rousseau and Voltaire, for example -- receive all the credit for advancing a shocking new intellectual agenda that eroded a traditional moral order and eventually brought down the ancien regime.
