A more common view, however, is to see judgments of beauty not as grounded in morality, but rather, along with judgments of the sublime, as contributing to an account of moral feeling, and hence of how morality is possible for human beings (for a clear statement of the contrast between these views, see the introduction to Guyer 1993).
Many "hot button issues," Feinberg said, are grounded in morality.
Contract may not be grounded in the morality of promising, as Fried maintained, but contracts routinely incorporate promissory morality, a social fact reflected in contract doctrine.
Some participants crafted arguments grounded in their own morality, rather than in the morality of their opponents.
In order to underline this significance, Tom L. Beauchamp and James F. Childress base the principles in the common morality, i.e. they claim that the principles represent basic moral values shared by all persons committed to morality and are thus grounded in human moral psychology.
In keeping with those positions, he believes that fairy tales, because they are grounded in a naïve morality, offer us a "counterworld," which encourages us to step back, consider the dubious morality of our own world, and take steps to reform it.
Hence, most traditional "natural law" moral doctrines--including the belief in a universal, objective morality grounded in human nature--do not contradict legal positivism.
Furthermore, Carlyle's morality was grounded in social relations: to be moral is to be in right relation with God and others.
And the answers to such questions are rarely grounded in the publicly espoused morality of help for all but in far more tribal considerations.
Acts that are "faith-based" stand a good chance of being beneficial to humanity, but not a better chance than acts that are skepticism-based--that is, grounded in an understanding of morality that does not rely on fear (or love) of divine authority (or any other kind of authority, for that matter).
Their common laws, however, are the laws of morality, grounded in reason.
