Sentence examples for direction of moral from inspiring English sources

Despite the ritual Socialist nod in the direction of "moral" arms sales, plus a heavier accent on human rights and democracy in dealings with other countries, the traditional broad consensus on foreign policy and defence is likely to hold.

Roger Ames (1991, 2002) defends an interpretation of Mencius that gives the greatest role in shaping the direction of moral development to human "creative social intelligence" rather than tian conceived as a force operating independently of human beings.

Until then, I'm not so worried about the direction of my moral compass.

There is some evidence pointing in this direction; neuroimaging studies of moral judgment have shown that imagining harmful acts against others engages brain regions with dense serotonergic projections, including the anterior cingulate cortex, ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vmPFC), amygdala, and striatum.

After a decade of debate, and a report prepared under the direction of Mary Warnock, a moral philosopher, Parliament in 1991 set up the Human Fertilization and Embryology Authority, an agency that licenses both fertility clinics and research institutions that study human embryos.

Theirs is a gentler form of moral direction.

In his view, there is continuous positive change over time — religious history has a moral direction — but no movement of moral revelation associated with the emergence of Moses, Jesus or Mohammed.

This book also looks at friendship's capacity for reaching across differences as well as what kind of moral direction friendship provides in our lives.

Both men bemoan our false fronts, our self-importance, our lack of moral compass (any direction or no direction will do now), the trivialization of the most important and making important the most trivial.

This doesn't bode well for the moral direction of Australia.

Of course, More had the courage to stand in opposition to the moral direction of his times.