Sentence examples for moral advances from inspiring English sources

Reason also, Pinker suggests, moves us away from forms of morality more likely to lead to violence, and toward moral advances that, while not eschewing the use of force altogether, restrict it to the uses necessary to improve social welfare, like utilitarian reforms of the savage punishments given to criminals in earlier times.

She argues that early reading of the Scripture is likely to lead to scepticism, and it is only after one has appreciated the morality of the ancients that one can truly understand the moral advances of Christianity.

There is nothing about Trump's public pronouncements that indicates that he has welcomed these moral advances; his language, his tone, his personal behavior, and his policies all suggest, and foster, a politics of resentment.

We feel a responsibility to do something and amidst all the doubts and hesitations that must be a moral advance.

No device of man can remove the tragedy from war; yet it is a great moral advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent.

One can argue that for a Republican President to speak warmly of public spending for education, the environment, and health care signals a moral advance of sorts, even if the driving force is political calculation.

The "aim is to create a safe space, to check your privilege and suspend the prejudices of the larger world, to promote human development and advance moral progress".

This is an absurd and even frightening fantasy, bearing no relation to the way in which moral theory actually advances and moral progress occurs.

Numerous anecdotes and stories gave point to the moral codes advanced.

The powerful moral arguments advanced by Judge Sullivan should tip the balance in its favor.

She acknowledges that the kind of moral naturalism advanced by Peter Railton (1986) is compatible with the evolutionary basis of our core moral beliefs but argues that the price of embracing such naturalism is to give up thinking of moral truths as having the kind of objective status that moral philosophers often attribute to them.