Sentence examples for moral circle from inspiring English sources

The perception of an animal's intelligence often drives our decision on whether or not to include them in our moral circle.

"It's possible to widen the moral circle, and I'm optimistic enough to believe it can be done on a worldwide scale".

TODAY'S recommended economics writing: Globalization and the expanding moral circle (Marginal Revolution) Working on the railroad (Slate) Obama trade plans are stalled (New York Times) Annals of white-collar crime (Felix Salmon) IMF economists on current account imbalances (Real Time Economics).

What was the big material payoff to expanding the moral circle to include black slaves?

Those pragmatic arguments are important for laying the groundwork for one of Reese's long- term goals—"expanding humanity's moral circle".

One consequence of the growing number of non-zero-sum interactions was that, through time, the "moral circle" expanded.

At the same time, in terms of its international role, this coalition, while expected to be more combative in Afghanistan, continued to turn in moral circles about whether its participation there is in a war or in "warlike circumstances," a more palatable circumlocution.

Such abandonment of moral rigour comes full circle sooner or later.

If we count fish as our cognitive peers, they ought to be included in our circle of moral duty.

Slowly but surely, the white man's circle of moral consideration was expanded to admit first blacks, then women, then homosexuals.

In fact, when it comes to expanding the circle of moral consideration, he argues, religions like Buddhism have sometimes "outperformed the Abrahamics".