Sentence examples for moral entity from inspiring English sources

Aristotle said the state is a moral entity.

No large political party in a money-fuelled, patronage-protecting electoral system such as ours can be best understood as an entirely moral entity, or as inherently righteous.

This is clearly absurd, but it is an absurdity that arises naturally from the way that the Catholic church is taken to be a single moral entity in which every part is responsible for the crimes of every other part, and all is centrally directed by the pope.

If classical music, with its rules of tonality and harmony and its set, classical forms of concerto, symphony and quartet, is perceived, even unconsciously, as a moral entity, people may react negatively when music posing under the classical mantle doesn't express the kind of "good" they expect from it.

This argument is based on the moral principle that says that a moral entity needs to refrain from violating the negative rights of others.

That is associated with the supposition that, if the shared interest generates a group right, the right-holding group must also be understood as an irreducible moral entity.

There has been much debate about whether companies are moral entities.

These companies are not moral entities that we can shame into paying their fair share; they exist to maximise their profits and those of their clients.

For instance, the physicalist holds that physical entities are basic, and that mental and moral entities are derivative.

Pufendorf's ethical voluntarism is articulated through the notion of "moral entities" (entia moralia, derived from Weigel), to which most of EJU Book I is devoted.

In it, Pufendorf presents a moral anthropology suggesting what kinds of moral entities, or what obligations and laws, should be imposed in view of "the natural inclinations and pursuits of us mortals".