Sentence examples for a moral system from inspiring English sources

(Leviathan, Chapter XI, paragraph 1) Law or a legal system is distinguished from morality or a moral system by having explicit written rules, penalties, and officials who interpret the laws and apply the penalties.

Religion differs from morality or a moral system in that it includes stories about events in the past, usually about supernatural beings, that are used to explain or justify the behavior that it prohibits or requires.

By its nature, a moral system does not leave patently bad action as morally permissible.

A moral system based on universal principles.

Individual responsibility in a moral system is based on ethics and good behavior.

Chinese leaders, who are officially atheist, assume that they have a moral system in place already, he said.

A legal system, like any moral system, is a complex and interdependent social arrangement.

For Ludwig Wittgenstein it was an "elementary sin", a challenge to any moral system.

Such an action would be unconscionable in any moral system.

Gerda Wielander of the University of Westminster, in her book "Christian Values in Communist China", says that many Chinese are attracted to Christianity because, now that belief in Marxism is declining, it offers a complete moral system with a transcendental source.

For example, the disastrous loss of WWII seems to have shifted the Japanese from a militaristic moral system to a more pacifistic one (Dower 2000).