Sentence examples for evident moral from inspiring English sources

They may not even have an evident moral content.

There's satisfaction in that smile, maybe cynicism, but no evident moral complexity.

1. Some contemporary moral intuitionists, e.g., Huemer and Enoch, reject talk of self-evident moral propositions, but nonetheless regard moral intuitions as basic sources of evidence.

But I don't confuse that cultural difference with a self-evident moral distinction.

True, it has courted controversy, and has been accused of failing to recognize self-evident moral truths and even scientific fact.

"Thou shalt not kill": whether the commandment is seen as coming from God or simply from self-evident moral intuition, few dispute that to kill is to commit a wrong, and that to refrain from killing is to prevent a wrong.

So there are no self-evident moral propositions.

Although it should be noted that some intuitionists did claim that self-evident moral truths are obvious.

This is easily missed, for he states at one point that self-evident moral propositions "cannot be proved, but … just as certainly need no proof" (1930/2002, 30).

According to both Reid and Ross, there is instead a plurality of self-evident moral first principles, none of which is reducible to another.

Sidgwick took disagreement seriously, and thought that if there was significant disagreement about the truth of some apparently self-evident moral proposition, then that casts doubt on whether that proposition really is self-evident.