Sentence examples for moral compulsion from inspiring English sources
'moral compulsion' is a correct and usable phrase in written English
You can use it to refer to a strong feeling of duty or obligation based on ethical considerations, for example: "He felt a moral compulsion to tell the truth despite the personal cost."
He may share the soldier's outward life and dangers, but he cannot share his inner life because the same moral compulsion does not bear upon him.
After declaring that the unconscious labors "under a moral compulsion to educate us," he inserts a parenthetical anticipating a dubious reader.
Dissent is an egalitarian phenomenon, since it combines a willingness to challenge authority with a moral compulsion to do what is right.
All great religious leaders, and also all great artists and intellectual discoverers, have shown a sense of moral compulsion to fulfill their creative impulses, and a sense of moral exaltation when they have done so.
"(Moral compulsion? Is he serious?)." McCarthy doesn't think the unconscious is interested in micromanaging our affairs, but he does seem to seriously believe that it has a broad interest in our wellbeing.
His account convincingly places the main emphasis on Russian patriotism and self-sacrifice: "The majority of Russian soldiers", he writes, "seem to have subsumed their personal feelings within the cause of the Great Patriotic War"; the idea of self-sacrifice appears as "a moral compulsion in the face of the invader".The author also describes the view from the other side of the front.
Is it a matter of compulsion, a moral failure, or merely a case of what Aristotle called akrasia, or "weakness of will"?
On other occasions, he said his interest in homosexual and bisexual culture had been more a product of the times and the situation in which he found himself than his own feelings; as described by Buckley, he said he had been driven more by "a compulsion to flout moral codes than a real biological and psychological state of being".
Like with some dissidents in other nations, Mr. Jeyaretnam's single-minded pursuit of a moral vision seems to be a compulsion.
I looked into adoption next, again wanting to feel some sort of compulsion to do the moral and decent thing according to my upbringing.
This childhood helps to make sense of his apparent compulsion to break rules, defy moral codes and, as it were, profane the host.
