Sentence examples for a morality of commands from inspiring English sources

But he cannot accept that moral characterisation entails moral prescription because this would commit us to a morality of commands, and to programmes for action and reform designed to achieve a merely external good.

This international norm is one that recognizes the rights of persons over a "morality of states".

A further worry is that the Mohist political system implements a kind of command morality, in which subordinates do nothing but mindlessly follow their leaders, who decide for them what is right and wrong.

Perhaps it's a morality tale of sorts.

A series of command-and-control regulations.

It was the Godless God of secular morality, which commanded without commander – whose ways were thus even more mysterious than the God I did not believe in, who at least had the intelligible motive of rewarding us for doing what He wanted.

It's like being part of a morality play.

It's a question of morality, of basic human dignity".

Is it the morality of a particular group, or are all moralities apart from utilitarianism tribal?

There is no morality as such; morality is always the morality of a particular community.

So when O'Reilly – the so-called Oracle of Silicon Valley who invented the idea of Web 2.0 and now commands almost two million Twitter followers – says that Silicon Valley has a morality problem, there probably is a morality problem.