Sentence examples for moral desert from inspiring English sources

Thus unless one is willing to give up on the idea that morality imposes a proportionality limit and on the importance of positive moral desert for justifying punishment up to that point as respectful of the individual both intuitively difficult to give up there is reason to continue to take notion of retributive justice, and the project of justifying it, seriously.

'But then we are lost in a moral desert.

So, as Pico Iyer recently pointed out, does the Los Angeles solitude of Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe, a Crusoe stranded on a moral desert island.

This means, in concrete terms, no more seeking or demanding moral justifications, no more experiencing or trying to instill moral guilt, no more assuming or assigning moral responsibility, no more assessing moral desert or exacting just retribution, etc.

And only moral desert "matters" for the intrinsic value of a possible world.

They may seem to come close if they invoke something like institutional desert to replace moral desert.

The issue is not moral deserts but political needs.

According to the First Book of Enoch, a noncanonical work believed to have been written between the 2nd century bc and the 2nd century ad, Sheol was composed of three divisions, to which the dead would be assigned according to their moral deserts.

As Godwin says, saving someone just because they are a relation seems bizarre without some additional judgment about their moral worth: a parent who is foolish or evil cannot have an over-riding claim on us against the moral deserts of all other members of the human race.

It takes a rare purity of spirit to irrigate the moral and aesthetic desert that is forever threatening to engulf the world of heavyweight boxing.

A more promising alternative might be to deny that there are ultimately such things as persons that could bear moral properties like desert.