Sentence examples for make moral claims from inspiring English sources

ability to make moral claims, whereas civil rights advocates have tended toward data-based claims in recent years that do not always resonate with local communities.

To ask if an entity has moral standing is to ask whether the well-being of that entity should be taken into account by others; it is also to ask whether that entity has moral value or worth and whether it can make moral claims on other beings.

This latter view would make moral claims truth-evaluable, and Ayer's moral emotivism denied that they were so evaluable.

That non-human animals can make moral claims on us does not in itself indicate how such claims are to be assessed and conflicting claims adjudicated.

More controversially, moral status is sometimes regarded as symmetrical: a being must be able to have moral claims made on it (and hence be capable of responsibility) as well as being able to make moral claims on others.

When "becoming a Christian" is defined as an event and not a new way of being human, we can easily lose our ability to allow the gospel to make moral claims upon our lives.

"They should be careful about making moral claims when their museums are full of looted treasures" acquired, he said, by the Ottomans in their centuries ruling parts of the Middle East and southeast Europe.

This view, Ayer was careful to point out, was not that associated with subjectivism, that in making moral claims we are describing our feelings.

A symmetry condition would exclude any human being lacking the capacity to have moral claims made on them not only individuals with radical cognitive impairments, but infants and young children as well.

Siquijodnons contrast popular belief with modern knowledge to make moral evaluations of people and simultaneously claim to believe that local knowledge is no less superior than the Amerikanos' (the West).

He then challenges Kant's claim that animals have no intrinsic moral worth because they cannot make moral judgement.