Sentence examples for moral arithmetic from inspiring English sources
noun
Synonym of felicific calculus
Richard didn't know whether to lie, whether parents had some complicated moral arithmetic about these things.
It is of course impossible to understand the complex moral arithmetic necessary to arrive at the perfect potion needed to assuage the collective conscience of a billion people.
According to Haldane's moral arithmetic, making a sacrifice for a family member is just another way of promoting our own DNA.
I was reminded of Arthur Sackler's admonition that you should endeavor to leave the world a better place than it was when you came into it, and I wondered about the moral arithmetic of the Sacklers' deeds.
Glucksmann's legacy has an essential simplicity that's almost Tolstoyan: be against the bad because you can never be confident about the good, and count at least to two when doing your moral arithmetic.
After him, the jurist Jeremy Bentham, eliminating sympathy, reduced ethics to the pure calculus of the useful, which in an entirely Epicurean formula he defined as a "moral arithmetic".
There, in her home at the center of town -- now the junction of Routes 14 and 169 -- she taught reading, writing, astronomy, arithmetic, moral philosophy and the arts, and was highly praised for her work.
The Liberal-leaning Winnipeg Free Press, writing shortly after Diefenbaker's speeches in British Columbia, commented on them: Facts were overwhelmed with sound, passion substituted for arithmetic, moral indignation pumped up to the bursting point.
Initially he followed the example of Weigel, his Cartesian mentor at Jena (whose own Arithmetic Description of Moral Wisdom about Persons and Things [Arithmetische Beschreibung der Moral-Weißheit Moral-Weißheit von Personenpeared only in 1674; see Weigel 2003), by employing a qundi-mathematical approach that aSachen to demonstrative certitude in moral matters in place of Aristotelian probabilism.
His moral calculus is a simple arithmetic.
Then, prescribing phenobarbital to the young Robert, he reduces this searing moral question to a handy piece of arithmetic: "I think we're looking at a 60-40 situation".
