Sentence examples for in moral understanding from inspiring English sources

Another leap in moral understanding occurs in early adolescence.

Both Darwin and Lincoln emerged from their bicentennial trials as men of their time with the marks of their time but as men who, on the whole, grew in moral understanding as they aged and came to embrace the kindest and wisest ideas about human equality that their time offered.

On his account, our abilities to imagine morally relevant situations and alternatives aids in our moral understanding, and our moral education consists at least partly in the development of abilities to imaginatively apply moral concepts to events in our everyday lives.

Elsewhere, he says, after claiming that absolutism is "very old, perhaps older than anything else in our moral understanding", that at the point of disaster or supreme emergency "absolutism represents, it seems to me, a refusal to think about what it means for the heavens to fall" (Walzer 2004a).

Five of the most widely-discussed are the role of imagination in the understanding of other minds (Section 4.1), in the cultivation of moral understanding and sensibility (Section 4.2), in the reconfiguration of responses (Section 4.3), in planning and counterfactual reasoning (Section 4.4), and in providing knowledge of possibility (Section 4.5).

The idea of a common destiny and a sense of solidarity are even more problematic in the United States, where a pioneer culture and Protestant values emphasized a moral understanding of poverty in the context of a culture of self-help and fulfilling God's work on earth with labour and enterprise -- a culture more amenable to private or corporate charity than welfare states.

Scientists have argued that many children display a more profound moral understanding than is evident in their responses on such tests.

As a result, many concrete applications or results suggested by original intentions and understandings may now seem absurd or highly undesirable in light of new scientific and social developments and improved moral understanding.

Why is he still in the running and enjoying poll numbers that confound our moral understanding?

One suggested mechanism for this process is that fictions allow imaginative acquaintance with unfamiliar moral perspectives and emotions, and cultivate existing moral understanding and capabilities by directing the reader's attention in ways that allow that understanding to be applied.

Banville seldom lacks heat — in "Shroud" and "The Sea," you sometimes think you're going to die — and he never lacks moral understanding.