Sentence examples for moral evidence from inspiring English sources

"Moral evidence is", Hume says, "nothing but a conclusion concerning the actions of men, deriv'd from the consideration of their motives, temper and situation" (T, 2.3.1.15/404).

Much of the work in metaethics pursued a strategy of finding companions in guilt, of showing that the status of moral properties as non-natural and the attendant implications for what we must suppose about the nature of moral evidence, if we are to take ourselves as having any, did not leave morality any worse off than other respected fields of knowledge.

Finally, "when we consider how aptly natural and moral evidence link together, and form only one chain of argument, we shall make no scruple to allow, that they are of the same nature, and derived from the same principles" (ECHU 60).

Sunday's most famous sermon was "Get on the Water Wagon," which he preached on countless occasions with both histrionic emotion and a "mountain of economic and moral evidence".

Prime Minister David Cameron and Labor leader Ed Miliband are late to the table in pointing out Britain's loss of morals, evidenced, they say, by the recent News of the World tabloid scandal and the riots that had London burning.

I am against torture on moral grounds despite the empirical evidence that may sometimes produce life-saving and self-proving information.

Ziebarth, N. R. (2013): "Long-Term Absenteeism and Moral Hazard – Evidence from a Natural Experiment," Labour Economics, 42: 277-292.

I've seen that when it comes to our moral convictions, evidence does little to sway people one way or another.

Dr. Mohler blames the "crisis in the chaplaincy "on the new "moral revolution" evidenced by "the normalization of homosexuality" as seen in the repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law and the finding by the United States Supreme Court that section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act is unconstitutional.

Rather, they say, moral disengagement is evidence that a sound moral sensibility is trying to assert itself, warning against a situation it finds suspect.

Throughout the series, Patty's weight is perceived as a kind of moral failing, as evidence that her desires are just completely out of control.