Sentence examples for modes of moral from inspiring English sources

An example might be criticism of the individual-based modes of moral inquiry presupposed in intuitionism.

Are there different levels of moral standing and, if so, do objects at different levels warrant different modes of moral respect?

In such cases, attending to the modes of moral reasoning that we characteristically accept can usefully expand the set of moral information from which we start, suggesting ways to structure the competing considerations.

If this was Smith's goal and it fits the text of TMS very well then he was engaged not in the sociology or psychology but the phenomenology of morals, describing the workings of our modes of moral judgment as carefully as possible from within, and believing that the comprehensive view that results can itself help guide us in moral judgment.

After all, there is substantial overlap between the two philosophies both emphasize the value of relationships for the good life as well as stress the importance of education and non-coercive modes of moral education with legal rights as last resort fall-back mechanisms (see Bell 2008, ch. 9)—so why not stick to the "local" philosophy of Confucianism?

Hume's naturalistic framework for understanding moral and social life excludes not only the metaphysics of libertarianism (e.g., modes of "moral" causation by immaterial agents) but also all further theologically inspired metaphysics that generally accompanies it (i.e. God, the immortal soul, a future state, and so on).

If poetry for Hill is a "mode of moral life" ("charred prayers / spiralling godwards on intense thermals"), the evidence here lies more in design than example — the morals are in lieu of, not on behalf.

Many will find this to be a deficient or at least incomplete mode of moral justification.

By repudiating the assumption that the masculine is the human norm and by studying girls and women, Gilligan discovered an alternative mode of moral cognition the Care Perspective.

Consequentialists can of course portray punishment as useful partly in virtue of its expressive character (see Lacey 1988; Braithwaite & Pettit 1990): but a portrayal of punishment as a mode of moral communication has been central to some recent versions of retributivism.

For the more plausible utilitarianisms mentioned above, however, such as Mill's and Hare's, the agent does not always calculate afresh, but must instead be alive to the possibility that because the ordinary "landmarks and direction posts" lead one astray in the situation at hand, one must make recourse to a more direct and critical mode of moral reasoning.