Sentence examples for moral conceptions from inspiring English sources

But Burt sees Lincoln as a historicist for whom our moral conceptions emerge only over time and in ways that we can never fully comprehend.

Burt's Lincoln sounds like a Hegelian philosopher for whom our moral conceptions become known to us only in the fullness of time and under the force of circumstances that no one — not even a Lincoln — can imagine.

Our moral conceptions, though, are based upon moral feelings.

In this particular case, the Akan view of personhood has, like many other metaphysical and moral conceptions, far-reaching effects on social practices and institutions.

First, the outputs of the Reidian moral sense include not only moral conceptions, but also full-blooded moral beliefs with moral propositional content.

Reid says, "Our first moral conceptions are probably got by attending cooly to the conduct of others, and observing what moves our approbation, what our indignation.

Jupiter was not only the great protecting deity of the race but also one whose worship embodied a distinct moral conception.

And what makes Disraeli so interesting is that he, like Ed Miliband, believed in a moral conception of society beyond the narrow confines of the marketplace.

"I don't see the point of existence without some kind of moral conception of the world," Veronica, who is publishing a book on Darfur, says.

Besides, it is unworthy to put the German worker and the German moral conception of work in the same category as this pack of traitors.

After so many decades of the lightweight and derivative, how refreshing to come face to face with Watts and his "great moral conception of life, its difficulties, duties, pains and penalties".