Now of course the moral tone appropriate to a show about a murderous mobster is different from the moral tone appropriate to a show about single women in Manhattan.
"Dworkin writes with great complexity but, in the end, always discovers that the moral philosophy appropriate to the Constitution produces the results that a liberal moral relativist prefers," Robert H. Bork, the onetime Supreme Court nominee, who died in December, wrote in 1997 in "The Tempting of America".
Why are certain moral emotions appropriate if the agent has done no wrong?
For Burke, the idea of inheritance extended far beyond property to include language, manners and morals, and appropriate responses to the human condition.
In this sense, ecological aesthetics speaks to the charge that traditional aesthetic appreciation of nature is morally vacuous, although the degree to which moral considerations and appropriate aesthetic appreciation of nature are importantly related remains a matter of discussion and debate (Loftis 2003, Bannon 2011, Stecker 2012).
Insofar as the non-cognitivist holds that moral assertions are appropriate when and only when a person has an appropriate noncognitive attitude, the presence of that attitude constitutes (part of the) truth condition for the utterance.
It's easier to cultivate the appropriate moral sentiments within a society that has adopted the convention of conferring robust moral rights on infants upon birth than it would be in a society that had adopted the convention of conferring the same rights on children only after they've reached some significant developmental milestone, such as the onset of intelligible speech.
But is he an appropriate moral reference about what constitutes a civilised society?
Is it appropriate moral guidance to show how Abraham was going to kill his son because God ordered him to?
As a professor equine studies, I attempt to teach my students appropriate moral reasoning regarding the well-being of the horse.
