Sentence examples for moral evolution from inspiring English sources

Du Bois's protest strategy for black advancement made this sharecropper's fate contingent on white moral evolution.

And the process of fathoming Washington's moral evolution is not a simple one.

If you look back through the ages, there is some moral evolution going on.

The poem's endless lists were read as "inventories of the sacred," while Whitman represented the end result of humankind's moral evolution.

Like the Forster, it was a spiritual adventure story, written with rhapsodic excitement, engulfing its mid-Victorian characters in huge shifts of time, culture, place and authorial tone, while also setting them on a course of moral evolution.

There are many forms of moral naturalism that allow this approach to the compatibility of moral truth and Darwinian moral evolution (Brandt 1979; Sturgeon 1985; Railton 1986; Boyd 1988; Brink 1989; Copp 1995, 2008; Churchland 1998, 2000; Sober and Wilson 1998; Rottschaefer 1998; Casebeer 2003; de Waal 2006; Campbell 1998, 2009; Kumar (forthcoming)).

In the nineteenth century, Darwin could only speculate about and sketch the evolution of moral acts, moral feelings, and moral systems.

Mr White sets out to chronicle Lincoln's moral and intellectual evolution.

His new show, "Enlightened," about the moral and spiritual evolution of a self-destructive character, stars Laura Dern as Amy Jellicoe, a 40-something sales executive who has an affair with her boss, is demoted and then publicly loses her marbles.

Basically, as in PETA US' lawsuit under the 13th Amendment, the NRP is proposing that it's time to take the next step in our moral and legal evolution and recognise that certain non-human animals cannot continue to be exploited as property.

The third line of thinking that puts the evolution of morals at loggerheads with moral knowledge arises from recent developments in moral psychology and neurobiology.