Sentence examples for moral dictates from inspiring English sources
My greatest concern flows not from the moral dictates of liberal democracy as personal preference, although it would be dishonourable to pretend that those don't matter, but from the insights of political analysis that lead us to liberal democracy.
We might recall in this connection Thomas Hobbes's argument that moral dictates cannot apply when they would lead to self-destruction.
But, this is not the only story Locke has to tell regarding the nature of our obligation to divine moral dictates.
This again may make it seem that Descartes rejects a substantial role for philosophy in ethics, offering in its place a Hobbesian account of the authority of moral dictates grounded in a sovereign will.
Not having our morality dictated by Popes is the reason we have dissenting churches (with their own moral instructors) and non-believers.
"Given the ongoing debate about the appropriateness of death penalty administration in general, the grave shortcomings in this case in particular," Mr. Scott wrote, "basic fairness and moral consciousness dictate that the death penalty not be imposed in this case".
Rather, morality and institutional practice both figure in the constitutive explanation of the law in the sense that the practice determines the content of the law as certain moral facts dictate and in virtue of those facts.
Moral codes dictate how people should treat one another, and most of these focus on two facets of social relationships.
While these approaches may be controversial in some settings, empirically based scientific evidence rather than the moral majority should dictate which interventions are implemented as a prevention priority.
A: To put it simply, it was about "tianxia (all under heaven)," which is a sense of public justice, or a system of morals that dictate human relations.
The answer is probably similar to that of, "Why doesn't the United States pass gun control legislation?" It's because political popularity, not morals, are dictating the ethics and action.
