Sentence examples for moral equal from inspiring English sources

He displayed easy recognition of a Jew as a moral equal.

He declared that the Contras, the fighting forces currently attempting to undermine the Sandanista regime in Nicaragua, "are the moral equal of our Founding Fathers".

Further, perfectionists can argue that it is no insult to a person's status as a moral equal to treat him in ways that presume that his rational capacities are not perfect, but subject to error.

For example, Thomas Hill characterizes the failure of autonomy in the case of the Deferential Wife as a moral failure of self-respect, a failure to treat oneself as a moral equal (Hill 1991, 15).

"Anarchist" exists on the peaks of a philosophical Olympus where ideas on eschatology, etymology, phenomenology and, yes, criminology are exchanged by intellectual (if not moral) equals.

Though he was no strict egalitarian (Derek Parfit argues that his theory is better construed as "prioritarian"), Rawls hoped to identify the principles of justice that hold for a democracy where people cooperate productively and see each other as moral equals.

Even those who do not eschew the language of moral status can appeal to differences in the interests impacted to justify unequal treatment of moral equals.

For this reason, the individual comes to recognise more people as his moral equals by virtue of their sharing his (implicit and ultimate) conception of the common good.

Similarly, it is not clear whether Mulhall and Diamond would hold that humans were required to treat Martians as moral equals, even if they could attribute intelligence and moral sensitivity to them.

Experiencing that people not only vote against racist parties and policies, but also treat each other as moral equals, not only bolsters self-worth, but also increases mutual respect and tolerance.

Standing alone, however, both responses seem vulnerable to the claim that similarities associated with species membership may explain, but cannot justify, the treatment of all other human beings as moral equals.