Sentence examples for moral constitution from inspiring English sources

Despite the unceasing onslaught that the would-be warrior made on his moral constitution, it would not yield.

Though perhaps the violence of this abomination might have told Mosby something about his own moral constitution.

A woman asked Mr. Pickett, 62, what he admired in the opposite sex and Mr. Pickett's thoughts did not turn to questions of moral constitution.

He possesses the Dostoevskyan title of the Inquisitor (Issey Ogata), and it is he who questions the imprisoned Rodrigues, and politely probes for the weak spots in the Jesuit's moral constitution.

As he put it, "Thus the social instincts – the prime principle of man's moral constitution – with the aid of active intellectual powers and the effects of habit, naturally lead to the golden rule, 'As ye would that men should do unto you, do ye to them likewise' and this lies at the foundation of morality".

In the "native man's moral constitution" is a "great felt need, and a great object of desire [for] peace, order, and protection"; and they are motivated by an acquisitive principle, "the impelling motive power in all [their] endurance and weariness" (191).

The performers who fare best find their characters not in the flat or twanging accents but in moral constitutions and in quieter truths.

His most significant theological study, On the Adaptation of External Nature to the Moral and Intellectual Constitution of Man, was written in 1833 and later incorporated in his Institutes of Theology (1849).

Ignacy Krasicki's satires of the Great Sejm era were also seen as crucial to giving the constitution moral and political support.

How exactly we should think of the importance of our capacity for empathy/sympathy for the constitution of moral agency and the foundation of moral judgment has also been controversially discussed among moral philosophers in recent years.

The other is to argue that the constitution of moral facts by non-moral natural facts is an a posteriori matter, akin to the relation between water and H2O, and that therefore Moore's openness only points to a conceptual gap, not a metaphysical one (Ridge 2014: Section 2).