Sentence examples for moral context from inspiring English sources

The violence makes the jokes funnier, and the jokes divorce the violence from a moral context.

For one thing, the social and moral context has changed utterly.

Ideally it should provide some moral context; what are we otherwise but wolves in clothes, barely deserving of iPads?

In her hands, the hunt for bin Laden is essentially a police procedural, devoid of moral context.

Its website describes marriage between men and women as the "sole moral context for natural sexual union".

Haber was one of those deeply worrying scientists able to divorce their work from any potential moral context – the evidence is beginning to suggest Zuckerberg enjoys a similar ability to compartmentalise.

In abnormal moral contexts where ignorance is the norm, persons lack a motive to be morally reflective, so it is not the case that they ought to have known better.

Moral psychology investigates human functioning in moral contexts, and asks how these results may impact debate in ethical theory.

Isaacs invokes Calhoun's distinction between moral knowledge in normal moral contexts as opposed to moral knowledge in abnormal moral contexts, where only those moral "experts" such as feminists, and members of disadvantaged groups who may not be moral "experts" but who have special moral insights due to their experiences, acquire new moral knowledge about which outsiders are unaware.

Progress in ethical theorizing often requires progress on difficult psychological questions about how human beings can be expected to function in moral contexts.

Calhoun argues that in "normal moral contexts," where a person has generally good moral reasoning skills and generally is able to figure out which actions are right, wrong, or controversial, a person's moral ignorance is inexcusable.