Sentence examples for current morality from inspiring English sources

Scandal then can be a barometer of society's fickleness and hypocrisy as much as any measurement of current morality.

The third item includes all the effects of the work of art upon those who experience it, including both aesthetic and nonaesthetic reactions, the influence of the work of art upon the culture, on the state of knowledge, on current morality, and the like.

Re "Does the Rot on Wall St. Reach Right to the Top?" (Market Watch, Nov. 17), I believe that the current morality crisis in business and finance stems from a belief among most Americans that anything they can get away with is permissible.

After all maturity in current folk morality is plausibly pretty contested.

Buy from Amazon.com, Amazon.co.ukIN HIS mid-50s Ian McEwan made a conscious move to distance himself from his fellow British novelists, Martin Amis, Julian Barnes and Salman Rushdie, with a series of "state of the nation" novels that self-consciously brought together current affairs, science, morality and sex.

People may sympathetically understand that most Japanese people don't want to face up to what their predecessors did in China and other East Asian countries, and that they treat them as intolerable history which insults their current conscience and morality.

The rootless morality of current years cannot be allowed to continue.

However, beyond universality, current research in moral psychology and anthropology points out two further dimensions of morality, namely community orientation and cooperation [ 18].

So what Jackson proposes is that, instead of taking the input to this analytic procedure to be folk morality in its current state, we should take it to be what he calls "mature folk morality" where by "mature folk morality" is meant what folk morality will have evolved into when critical reflection has done all it can to sharpen it up.

NCAA and university athletic administrators intuitively believe in the axiomatic morality of the current college-sport system.

I am hoping that money won't trump morality in the current conflict and that US relief agencies will weigh in on the Obama administration that picking up the pieces from someone else's civil war is not the job of US humanitarian relief agencies.