Sentence examples for immediate moral from inspiring English sources

Locke's definition of political power has an immediate moral dimension.

They are the underdog, the occupied people, and that gives them the immediate moral high ground.

Protestant churches have often put great emphasis on the direct, or immediate, moral responsibility of the individual before God.

Washington therefore needs to separate its immediate moral rhetoric in justifying an attack from the language it uses toward Moscow, Tehran and Beijing concerning Syria.

One can see a parallel, here, with Friedman's judgment about globalization — but that issue was never as bleakly binary, nor did it have the same immediate moral weight.

Since Syria's plight is the most immediate moral and strategic problem, that is where Europe must begin the search for solutions.

She sought early on to establish a foundation for morality in human nature that sufficiently accounted for the type of natural and seemingly immediate human moral sensibility that Burnet believed was not accounted for by Locke.

Cockburn's morality sought to establish a foundation for morality in human nature that sufficiently accounted for the type of natural and seemingly immediate human moral sensibility that Burnet believed was not accounted for by Locke and that Clarke's critics saw as lacking in his fitness view.

The story is rooted in war and starts with war, and those scenes, at the start and, even more later on, are replete with mutilations and agonies, sprays and spurts of blood and cascades of human meat, seen in sharp detail and often shown in slow motion, which expresses a pleasure in staging and observing such grotesque and horrific violence — a pleasure that's immediate, extra-moral, and personal.

She argues that conscience is not an immediate source of moral knowledge, as Burnet would have it, but a source of moral affection or feeling that complements, and presupposes, a proper (i.e., rational) knowledge of moral laws.

First, law can be derived by a kind of immediate deduction from moral principles, such that there is a direct correspondence in content between a moral and a legal rule.