Sentence examples for abstract moral from inspiring English sources

In more abstract moral terms, there are also complications.

"Abstract moral arguments weren't going to cut much ice," he told me.

What is the virtuous relationship between personal loyalty and abstract moral rectitude?

Whether the facts are accurate or not, it's a dubious enterprise to turn the life, work, and name of Hendrix into an abstract moral conundrum.

It is easier for any of us to grapple with an abstract moral question than to enthusiastically give up "our" money.

But it was The Decalogue's more abstract moral concern that put him on the world map as an object of auteur adulation.

Irving Babbitt (1865 1933), Thorstein Veblen (1857 1929), and Lewis Mumford are among the many American writers who, in the 20th century, maintained the tradition of writing on abstract or moral themes with clarity and elegant simplicity.

The intentions of the authors of the Eighth Amendment might have been that government bodies observe an abstract, partly moral standard forbidding governments from acting in a manner properly characterizes as cruel and unusual.

Clarke and William Wollaston were influential philosophers who argued primarily from abstract relations to moral obligations, duties, virtues, etc. in their moral systems.

But works of art also enliven our abstract knowledge of moral precepts and make them effective on our action, so aesthetic experience is also of indirect moral value.

Their approach was marked by a thoroughly German brew of abstract idealism and moral debate.