Sentence examples for groups of human beings from inspiring English sources

He believes that our faculties of moral evaluation are always directed toward the motivations and well-being of particular individuals in particular situations, not to goods that might be possessed jointly by groups of human beings, and he rejects the idea that our assessments or decisions should aim at the greatest happiness for the greatest number of people (TMS 237).

If groups of human beings were to coexist peacefully, Kohlberg thought, it would have to be on the basis of some shared morality, common to all.

Under Wilson's theory, the beneficiaries of natural selection are groups of human beings.

Or is the public (b) made up of individual human beings and groups of human beings who have wants and preferences of which they are aware?

Just what predictions let us determine whether religion spread by selection among groups of human beings or by selection among the memes these groups happened to carry?

"If it were impossible for individual human beings (or groups of human beings) to act autonomously in effective pursuit of a common goal," he wrote in a 1996 dissent, "the game of soccer would not exist".

The American idea of race, she writes, emerged as a means of reconciling our decision to enslave a group of human beings with the ideas of freedom being preached in the new colonies.

A global problem that seems otherwise insoluble can be blamed upon a specific group of human beings.

It is unprecedented in Australian politics that the major parties are, in effect, promising to be cruel to a targeted group of human beings.

"When [artists and writers] are destroyed, what is being destroyed is not only a group of human beings, but a whole imaginative constellation that's so crucial for any culture, and what results is a culture drained of its psychological and spiritual strength," he said.

More than any other film I've seen which elects to tell stories about gay men, "Howl" very clearly articulates the isolation and stigmatization felt by a group of human beings who, even today, are told that they are something just short of being real, equal men.