Sentence examples for direct moral from inspiring English sources

More than two millennia later, the German philosopher Immanuel Kant argued for a deontological (duty-based) view when he claimed that human beings have direct moral duties to other human beings who are morally autonomous entities and thus have moral standing but not to nonhuman organisms, which are not morally autonomous.

Some argue, using Kenneth Goodpaster's concept "moral considerability" (what a being has if it should receive direct moral consideration), that even non-sentient beings can constrain us morally in virtue of their having interests that give rise to rights or define a good, a wellbeing, that can be harmed.1 "Interests" here cannot refer, of course, to what the organism cares about.

Nor would Plato object to Haidt's claim that ethics is based on intuition — direct moral judgments — rather than on reasoning.

These short videos (by IVAW) highlight creative protest tactics and direct moral appeals by veterans against the war.

Models of diffusion of responsibility suggest that principals will avoid direct moral responsibility by hiring agents to act unethically on their behalf.

The narrative could be improved with a direct moral that would help improve the problem that is clearly and compellingly presented in Step 3.

This has been changed so that the wife is now her husband's equal in authority to direct the moral and material direction of the family This change was first proposed by the Minister of Justice, M. Jean Foyer.

But each piece is soulful and affecting, the artists resisting direct, confrontational moral and political statements in favor of allusion and metaphor.

It's certainly possible that, since we now have Miley Cyrus and her prehensile tongue at which to direct our moral outrage, to many onlookers Gaga looks the safer option, as dangerous as a panto dame.

Lori Gruen, head of the philosophy department at Wesleyan and coordinator of the summer fellowship program in animal studies there, said one of the major questions in philosophy was "Who should we direct our moral interest to?" Thirty years ago, she said, animals were at the margins of philosophical discussions of ethics; now "the animal question is right in the center of ethical discussion".

Oh, how would we direct our moral compass without Avery?