Sentence examples for guide to behavior from inspiring English sources

Here the press at least, the more established American corner of it—has a standard that works as a daily guide to behavior, even when it seems to defy logic.

Here the press — at least, the more established American corner of it — has a standard that works as a daily guide to behavior, even when it seems to defy logic.

The reason religion can and does serve as a normative guide to behavior is that it is not a form of philosophy, but a system of belief  that binds the believer.

When a general guide to behavior endorses self-interest as primary this is usually because acting in one's self interest is taken as fostering the interests of all.

In descriptive sense of "morality," morality cannot be a guide to behavior that a person does not want others, even those in his own society, to adopt.

Understood in this way "morality" refers to a guide to behavior accepted by an individual rather than that put forward by a society or any other group.

In small homogeneous societies people do not belong to groups that put forward guides to behavior that conflict with the guide put forward by their society.

All guides to behavior that are normally regarded as moralities involve avoiding and preventing harm to others, but all of them involve other matters as well.

But religions may prohibit or require more than is prohibited or required by guides to behavior that are explicitly labeled as moral guides, and may allow some behavior that is prohibited by morality.

The only feature that the descriptive and normative senses of "morality" have in common is that they refer to guides to behavior that involve, at least in part, avoiding and preventing harm to some others.

Kant's familiar guide to good behavior says to act as if you were legislating for all.