Sentence examples for defective morality from inspiring English sources

However, "Natural law" theories of morality claim that any rational person in any society, even one that has a defective morality, can know the general kinds of actions that morality prohibits, requires, discourages, encourages, and allows.

The critic Ernest Newman wrote later that the sentimentalist Opéra-Comique audience was "shocked by the drastic realism of the action" and by the low standing and defective morality of most of the characters.

They can also admit that many, perhaps all, societies have defective moralities, i.e., that although their guides to behavior have enough of the features of normative morality to be classified as descriptive moralities, they would not be endorsed in their entirety by all rational persons.

But this particular story is valuable as a morality tale: it highlights the defective regimes' vulnerability to the corruption of the rulers' appetites.

For example, the announcement of his lectures for the winter semester of 1765 66, in which Kant states his intention to develop and clarify "the attempts of Shaftesbury, Hutcheson and Hume, which, though imperfect and defective, have nevertheless come farthest in the discovery of the first principles of all morality" (Ak 2 311, translated by and quoted in Kuehn 2001, 176).

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Christian morality?

Yes, morality.

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