Sentence examples for moral entitlements from inspiring English sources
"Man conducts himself in a certain criminal way," al-Ahdal writes, "like a predator in a forest, in order to obtain his material and moral entitlements in society".
She defends these capabilities as being the moral entitlements of every human being on earth.
28 These ten capabilities, as moral entitlements emanating from a person's human dignity, become the source of political principles for liberal pluralistic society; ensuring each member achieves a threshold level of these ten central capabilities become primary political goals.
When health is properly understood as achieving vital goals, and the moral entitlements to the capabilities to achieve these vital goals are duly recognized as basic political principles grounded in freedom and equal dignity, the health of citizens becomes the first priority of social justice, and one of the most basic values of society.
The aggressions licensed by moral entitlement, the veneer of bad faith: those things are evident in a wide range of phenomena, from slaveholders' religion-tinctured justifications to the Nazi bureaucrats' squeamishness about naming the activity they were organizing, neither of which would have been necessary if the oppressors were really convinced that their victims were beasts.
Critics might counter, however, that this account wrongly presumes that psychological attachment is sufficient to generate moral entitlement.
Being a responsible member of society might be a good thing but one's moral entitlement to equality of status is not conditional on good behavior.
Walzer may hold that everyone at all times and places has an equal moral entitlement to be treated according to the shared norms and cultural understandings of one's people or group.
It is no surprise in this post-2008 world to learn that wealth may cause a sense of moral entitlement.
The Panel takes a moral right to be a moral entitlement of a kind.
For the purpose of determining whether such a moral entitlement exists we look at the moral values at stake, and determine whether, on balance, they justify a moral right.
