Sentence examples for general moral from inspiring English sources

The focus on interpersonal morality showed that general moral rules, which some traditional ethical theories strove to develop, were rather crude instruments for conducting a moral life.

Instead we reflect upon similar examples and general moral principles, trying to arrive at a balanced view of the morally relevant features of the case at hand.

An initial problem with this sort of move is that the special duties and rights of social roles are underpinned by general moral considerations since it is only those roles that can be morally supported by quite general moral considerations that will have a role morality.

The country had descended into anarchy, he said, with crime and corruption and general moral collapse.

The more general moral displacement it represents is, for Fast, the scary thing.

But I rather doubt whether the survey reveals a general moral decline among the British people.

For Arendt, the leaders embodied the general "moral collapse" of those years.

But Margaret Thatcher became prime minister that year, and her administrations imposed a general moral retrenchment on television.

In his view, Lagos has been deteriorating since shortly after his arrival, owing to a general moral collapse brought on by the oil boom of the seventies.

The secretary-general of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, has said that a sovereign ruler has to obey some general moral rules.

In 2003, India's Supreme Court ruled that victims could not be cross-examined on their general moral character, Human Rights Watch said.