Sentence examples for moral end from inspiring English sources

Bardout (2000), 111 62, includes the argument that Malebranche's exchange with Lamy on pure love in fact marks a transition in his thought from a "metaphysical morality" that stresses the purely intelligible nature of our moral end, to a "sensible morality" that stresses a conception of that end in terms of the cause of our pleasure.

To the extent that people have both a good and a bad self, they are a "self-contradiction," and if these are necessary to morality as Bradley's suggests they are then the ultimate moral end of action self-realization action self-realizationnnot be ashieved.

The trouble is that race-blindness is a narrow, technical aspiration and not a genuinely moral end.

While we can automate the retrieving of knowledge, I don't think we can ever automate the moral end on making sense of that and making sense of ourselves.

He was a hard-working, conscience-stricken man, combatting forces dedicated to divisive political and social ends a man obsessed with order as a superior moral end.

His delight in Max Ophuls and Jacques Tourneur, two directors whose strong personal style served a moral end by keeping the distance between audience and art vitally alive, has much in common with that old critical warhorse, the auteur theory.

As in the case of kidney transplants, one must choose "between two great moral ends," he said.

When the power is used for moral ends, it seems to be the power of belief and devoutness in the face of unbelief and evil.

But he is also an anatomist of the evils of unbridled appetite and political corruption and insists on the need to use public power to moral ends.

Critics charged immorality despite Dorian's self-destruction; Wilde, however, insisted on the amoral nature of art regardless of an apparently moral ending.

Rather he argued that peace and order were prerequisites for the achievement of moral ends "because ideals could hardly flourish under conditions of perpetual war or anarchy".