Sentence examples for ethical imagination from inspiring English sources

But this does not negate the exercise of the ethical imagination.

He argues for impotence as "evidence of an evolved type of kindness" and "an achievement of the ethical imagination".

"Letters from Iwo Jima," taken together with "Flags," is a considerable act of ethical imagination, and I wish I could say that it was also a great film.

I wanted to capture this sort of cheater's progress, where this guy eventually discovers for the first time the beginning of an ethical imagination.

Finally the old vigour and passion of the campaigner re-emerges "we can always try to retain and express compassion for the lives of others...so long as our ethical imagination survives we remain attached to the world".

As the head of a club that has been a bastion of racism and sexism for more than 75 years, the suggestion that it has standing in an ethical discussion is beyond imagination.

The intellectuals, opinion-makers and leaders of the world have to exercise their ethical responsibility and creative imagination to enable this new normality to emerge.

It is unsurprising that students – who are able to identify the socially desirable responses in written tests that seek to examine their moral imaginations and ethical principles - often fail to enact the principles that they espouse.

In Phillipson's reading, the theory is not so much an ethics as a theory of polite sociability, contra Rousseau and also Hobbes, and per Hume, in which imagination plays the starring ethical role.

It takes very little narrative imagination to grasp the ethical complexities ahead; every policeman wearing a camera, every terror cell with a Twitter feed, every face in a crowd rendered recognisable.

It is argued that scientists should use their moral imagination in making fundamental ethical choices, in reflecting on legal regulation, in taking public opinion seriously, and in balancing human benefit and animal harm as expected outcomes of the experiments.