Sentence examples for moral explanations from inspiring English sources

Many rioters sought to give moral explanations for what they saw as justifiable looting.

We also learn, for those who like moral explanations, that these monsters thrive in our polluted atmosphere, and that they're controlled, as they have been for millennia, by malevolent colonial powers.

Hence the central importance of the debate on moral explanations.

However, it is not clear whether or not non-moral explanations really do work as well as moral explanations in all cases.

The argument from moral explanations excludes yet another way to rule out moral nihilism.

Harman also has urged against Sturgeon that appeal to moral explanations is idle: all the explanatory work is done by reference to the nonmoral supervenience base of the supposed moral properties and facts (Harman 1986, 63 64).

It begs for a reasonable moral explanation.

It's not as if Pettitte has made an articulate and finely tuned moral explanation as to why he took injections of H.G.H., which is illegal without a prescription, although baseball had not gotten around to serious drug testing.

Pure interpretivism offers a thoroughly moral explanation of the normative relevance of institutional practice, by identifying a moral concern that gives the practice such relevance.

The moral explanation that it offers assumes no nonmoral prior account of grounds and leaves no residual question about whether legal obligations have moral force.

Harman's scepticism about moral explanation is, Sturgeon urges, a symptom of his scepticism about moral facts generally (Sturgeon 1988, 237 238, 254).