Sentence examples for moral deserts from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Accordingly, it is important to work out an adequate theory of moral desert.

His most recently published book, The Geometry of Desert, uses graphs to reveal the hidden complexity of the concept of 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.

The result is a more careful investigation into the nature of moral desert than has ever previously been offered, one that reveals desert to have a hidden complexity that most of us have failed to recognize.

Much of his work centers on the debate between consequentialist and deontological moral theories, with publications on the nature of well-being, moral desert, utopia, and the connections between Kantianism and consequentialism.