The phrase "a set of moral rules" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing ethical guidelines or principles that govern behavior.
Example: "In many cultures, a set of moral rules is essential for maintaining social order and harmony."
Alternatives: "a collection of ethical guidelines" or "a framework of moral principles".
They argue that a set of moral rules selected because of the good consequences of their adoption should include a rule that allows and indeed requires one to prevent disaster even if that means breaking some other moral rule.
Discursive theories hold public justification is achieved when an agreement has been reached among the relevant class of public discussants, whereas universalizing approaches hold that public justification has been achieved when we have located a set of moral rules or principles that can be seen as reflecting fair and reciprocal relations among persons.
But this word actually means something more like "moral discipline"; someone has śīla when, having made a commitment to follow a certain set of moral rules, she is actually disposed to follow those rules.
"We don't know whether this is because people believe that these preferred leaders really do have a superior set of moral rules, or that there's something else going on," Dr. Overbeck said.
These startups will need a strong set of moral rules.
Some believe the moral principles stipulated by God for correct human behavior flow from God's nature and thus that such principles determine God's behavior, while others believe that God acts in accordance with a different set of moral rules, that for God what is right is simply whatever God does.
I do think it's very difficult to have an ethical vision of capitalism which is simply based on a rather diminished set of moral rules".
But most discussion has steered clear of the basic issue of whether suicide itself is right or wrong, or can ever be rationally chosen".Our society has not evolved a measured, considered set of moral rules, laws, and customs concerning suicide," observes Margaret Pabst Battin, author of "The Death Debate" (Prentice Hall; $24.95), a lucid survey of the ethical issues suicide raises.
For Kant, moral epistemology is not a matter of discovering an external, independently created set of moral rules, but rather recognizing a rationally self-legislated moral law.
However, a two-level utilitarian knows that his everyday set of moral rules is merely a guideline, and as such any breach of these rules is unlikely to accompany the same degree of guilt as would someone who believed that it was wrong in principle to act in that way.
Given the designed function of Gert's list, it is natural that most of his morally relevant features make reference to the set of moral rules he defends.
