Sentence examples for moral formula from inspiring English sources

Ultimately there is no simple or, indeed, complex moral formula that results in kidney donation.

Climate change confounds this core moral formula: it is a perfect and undetectable crime everyone contributes to but for which no one has a motive.

It's because many people in these countries, as Arthur Brooks of the American Enterprise Institute has noted, believe in a simple moral formula: effort should lead to reward as often as possible.

Vollmann's announced intention is to work out a set of formulas (his "moral calculus") for determining whether or not violence is a legitimate response to any given situation.

Instances of direct influence include Kant's idea of the categorical imperative, the third formulation of which in the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (the so-called formula of the kingdom of ends) recalls Rousseau's discussion of the general will in The Social Contract.

"I'm careful not to judge too much and I do try not to fall into a formula of easy moral judgment," he explains.

Like many broad successes this unremarkable movie proves decidedly reluctant to yield any golden secret to box-office bonanzas, unless you count tried-and-true chase formulas and a moral about rethinking priorities.

The first practical principle is not a command or imperative as (ii) would have it, nor is it a moral principle as all these formulae suggest by omitting "to be pursued" (see 2.7 below).

"Catholicism doesn't teach you to treat people like three-fifths of a person," Mr. Tildon said of the nation's founders' constitutional formula for evading the moral injustice of slavery.

Peter McGraw, a professor at the University of Colorado and author of The Humor Code, an analysis of humor, said Stewart's mix of comedy and moral suasion was a classic comedy formula.

And yet, in the moral crusade that breastfeeding promotion has become, formula is likened to nicotine and mothers who formula feed are essentially blamed for raising children more likely to be sick and a burden on public resources.