Sentence examples for moral consensus from inspiring English sources

Though politicians like to pretend they embody a moral consensus, there is none on the morality of drug use.

Privacy is a luxury of moral consensus.

"What is the basis these days for international law and for international moral consensus?" he asked.

However, their ability to persuade ideologues to shift their moral consensus has been sadly muted today.

First, the pope can emphasize that the "two-state solution" to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reflects a global moral consensus.

One challenge is that we do not have a moral consensus around the value and need for philanthropy.

But this, critics argue, amounts to an illegitimate attempt to impose a moral consensus inevitably the consensus of those with political power on societies which are rather characterised by radical moral disagreement; it denies to those who do not share that consensus the freedom to think and live as they see fit.

Gray's view, in effect, is that there is less of a consensus on moral matters across the various ways of life than liberal theorists suppose.

Occasionally, though, one does get the sense that the book hasn't been updated thoroughly enough, as when Scruton refers to "a consensus of moral conviction against pornography".

"What's new is a consensus of moral responsibility," said Hans Winkler, a senior official of the Foreign Ministry who negotiated compensation agreements.

All countries have an equal "vote," although the group does not have any formal powers and works largely by consensus and moral suasion.