The phrase "contemporary morality" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use this phrase to refer to the ethical or moral values of the present time. For example, "Contemporary morality is largely shaped by the values of the society we live in."
In this contemporary morality tale, a family stumbles along, rich and dysfunctional, without ethical or moral responsibility.
Jonathan Dee's intelligent new novel, "The Privileges," asks these questions in the form of a contemporary morality tale.
But like 17th-century anatomical drawings doubling as allegories, these bodies are also posed to teach contemporary morality lessons, which tend to focus on health.
It grew into a debate about contemporary morality, humour, shock values, overpaid celebrities, the powerlessness of the producer, Reithian values and the purpose of state broadcasting.
Sometimes measuring as much as 10 feet across, these drawings nonetheless had tremendous visual verve, delicately tracing the convoluted unfoldings of contemporary morality tales like the savings and loan scandal, Whitewater, Iran-contra and the Vatican bank scandal.
There is no doubt that director John Doyle is telling a contemporary morality tale of revenge served hot in the shape of Mrs Lovett's succulent meat pies that have that little extra something: human flesh.
(The one Commandment that is not a commonplace of other contemporary moralities concerns "adultery", which was not about not sleeping with anyone but your spouse, but rather about not sleeping with another man's wife, or if you are a woman with anyone but your husband or owner.
There is, of course, a great deal of leeway in the last part, concerning the details of the transition through cultural evolution from hominin proto-moralities to contemporary moral systems, which allows for some very different possible stories.
Undone might be a questionable dissection of contemporary sexual morality and moralizing, but far better that we have these provocative not-quite-Lolitas than a sea of bland more-of-the-same.
Indeed it is a commonplace of contemporary moral and political philosophy that equally sincere, conscientious, and reasonable individuals espouse fundamentally different, and frequently conflicting, views about morality.
His personal fortune derived from the unofficial opportunities for profit that attached to office in the 16th century; but in exploiting fees and gifts Burghley was careful not to go beyond the limits of contemporary public morality.
