Sentence examples for moral approval from inspiring English sources
"moral approval" is correct and usable in written English
You could use it to describe the approval of a behavior or action based on ethical or moral considerations. For example, "The committee voted to give their moral approval of the proposed policy changes."
This test requires in the first instance that the faculty of moral approval approve of its own workings.
He follows Hutcheson in thinking that they assign two distinct roles to self-interest in their accounts of morality: first, moral approval and disapproval are based in a concern for our own interest and, second, the motive of which we ultimately approve is self-interest.
As we have seen, for Hume, sympathy is not simply one among a number of morally useful traits; it is a fundamental piece in the mechanism of moral approval and disapproval.
They are types of pleasure and uneasiness that are associated with the passions of pride and humility, love and hatred: when we feel moral approval for another we tend to love or esteem her, and when we approve a trait of our own we are proud of it.
Finally, he said, having been contacted by Mr. Chambre, he decided to sell the collection and obtained Jackie Callas's "moral approval" for the auction.
Steve Coogan: Mr Coogan has a personal life which, by his own admission, may not command the moral approval of all.
The self-esteem variables of competence, lovability, personal power, moral self-approval and body functioning were found to be significantly related to all the areas of adjust ment.
Mr. Kerry, Democrat of Massachusetts, his voice rising as senator after senator moved slowly into the chamber, rejected the concerns of Republicans and made a moral argument for approval of the treaty.
An author's concern over a character's likeability might also be a concern over the author herself — over the Self, in other words; over social approval, moral authority, the potential for larger literary popularity, and so on — and may be atavistic and an occasion for politics and preening.
Such disinterested uneasiness, and the concomitant pleasure we feel on contemplating the public benefits of adherence, are instances of moral disapproval and approval.
Hume sought to explain how moral judgments of approval and disapproval are possible given that people normally are focused on achieving their particular interests.
