Sentence examples for moral criterion from inspiring English sources

Hutcheson's moral criterion was whether or not an act tends to promote the general welfare of mankind.

Why would anyone strain the moral criterion of last resort, as a significant number of religious people do, in a way that makes it clear that virtually no military action, short of repelling perhaps a full-scale enemy attack already launched on the nation's territory, would ever meet it?

At least one such condition is a moral criterion: a transaction is exploitative only if it is unfair.

While uncertainty about outcomes can complicate ethical analysis, it is not a moral criterion itself, as sometimes suggested in the recent debate (Lanphier and Urnov, 2015).

One strand of her argument is that, unlike a person, a moral criterion can rank any given alternatives just one way.

The House-passed budget resolution fails to meet these moral criteria.

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops has criticised a budget Ryan put forward as failing to meet certain "moral criteria".

In their letters, the bishops laid out "moral criteria to guide these difficult budget decisions: protect human life and dignity".

"If any individual at any time of the day asks how they stand against the moral criteria of the book," he said later, "it's a huge achievement".

But in another change from the past, the French expect that a decision to use the military will be based on clear moral criteria, Mr. Jakubowski said.

Calling himself "very French," he said that eroticism is for him a "space of freedom and rebellion, liberated from moral criteria".