Sentence examples for moral apprehensions from inspiring English sources

Ross thinks we can trust our moral apprehensions, and since apprehension is a matter of knowledge, and knowledge implies certainty, he is certain that we have the above responsibilities and that certain things are intrinsically valuable (RG 146, 29, 30; KT 42; cf. Audi 2004).

And I know it's not pretty, but my moral apprehensions about it mostly disappeared the first moment I tasted pork crackling.

You should, however, voice your moral apprehension about the use of such loopholes to the company you represent.

Many young people "know that it's wrong to break into a person's house, yet they don't feel the same moral apprehension before breaking into another person's computer," Eric Holder, the deputy United States attorney general, has said about similar cases.

This development stirs multiple fears, but one that immediately comes to mind is the possibility of tuning down moral apprehension even lower and creating synthetic psychopaths.

This announcement was cause for thumbs-up galore, among other reactions: apprehension, verbal dislikes, moral outrage, noisy indifference.

He compares this natural apprehension of a moral principle to the depth perception humans have thanks to the evolution of stereo vision.

So, conscience does not motivate in and of itself, nor does the rational apprehension of one's moral duty, but Locke identifies a species of pleasure distinct from divine sanctions that makes his notion of acting for conscious' sake perfectly consistent with his hedonism: to act for conscious' sake is to be motivated by, and take pleasure in, acting in accordance with one's moral duty.

Intuitionists have differed over the kinds of moral truths that are amenable to direct apprehension.

When a work of art represents human activity, then Hume's account of moral evaluation requires that moral sentiment accompany apprehension of the action.

Today's remarks came as the United States continued a buildup of military forces in the Middle East, and they exemplified international leaders' apprehensions and attempts at political and moral suasion.