Sentence examples for moral desires from inspiring English sources

The specific is government-that is, law; that is, codification of people's moral desires, together with enforcement of the law for common weal..

The level of effort that an agent expends to perform a morally desirable action will depend on the strength of her 'pro-moral' desires.

The Strength of the Agent's Pro-Moral Desires.

As we saw earlier, one of the factors that Sorensen mentions as a possible complication to his model is the strength of the agent's pro-moral desires.

For example, he suggests that the presence of a strong pro-moral desire might positively influence the moral worth of a morally desirable action even if it does not lead to high level of Effort Exerted (say, because Effort Required is low).

Thus, an agent's counterfactual effort cannot be subsumed under the strength of her actual pro-moral desire.

In the actual case, Janette may have a very strong pro-moral desire to donate to UNICEF, but one whose presence is conditional on the absence of barriers.

Whether she has a strong pro-moral desire in the actual case, in which faces no barriers, may constitute evidence that she would have had a sufficiently strong desire in the relevant counterfactual cases, but it does not guarantee it.

What determines whether Janette would have exerted more effort, had it been required, is whether she would have had a sufficiently strong pro-moral desire to donate had there been some barrier to making the donation.

Within moral psychology, desire features prominently in a debate over the conditions for moral praiseworthiness and blameworthiness.

Writing about the nature of Adam, derived from an interpretation of the Bible, one cited author describes him as "having no character; he is without moral conscience, desire, or will; the knowledge of good and evil he has not attained.