Sentence examples for conventions of morality from inspiring English sources

This ménage à trois simply pushes the conventions of morality aside as though they don't exist.

L'incoronazione di Poppea is frequently described as a story in which virtue is punished and greed rewarded, running counter to the normal conventions of literary morality.

Slum thuggery represents freedom from the conventions of politics and morality.

"In this conflict America faces an enemy that has no regard for conventions of war or rules of morality.

Still, many — even many who think an appeal to convention is essential to making sense of morality — think that the proper account of morality cannot be a matter of conventions "all the way down".[4] But that does not mean that they think that the standards that serve to justify the demands of (some) conventions are mysterious.

Following rules of morality, or adhering to convention are important for our social system to function smoothly, but they may not reflect empathy.

Eliminative materialism entails unsettling consequences not just about our conception of the mind, but also about the nature of morality, action, social and legal conventions, and practically every other aspect of human activity.

One appealing feature of Glaucon's account of morality as a mutually advantageous convention is that it renders morality's origin and nature non-mysterious.

We may have different beliefs about the source of morality's authority — God, social convention, human reason.

There are a number of rules belonging to civilization that outrage his sense of morality, among them the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which asserts that sovereign states alone are the ocean's enforcers.

It does not seem to be the normativity of morality, since someone who violates some convention of, say, etiquette or fashion need not thereby act immorally.