Sentence examples for moral goals from inspiring English sources

The perfectionist, as we have seen, denies there is anything in the nature of morality itself that should impose principled limits on the law's pursuit of moral goals: such limits are thought rather to get in via the back door, through reflection on the nature of coercion.

And yet I still hope that my books may help serve moral goals.

The high moral goals that it had set for itself were never realized.

That future urges us to get our moral goals in order now.

While in office, he offered himself as a visionary, a pioneer of muscular, military intervention in pursuit of avowedly moral goals.

That war, he says, tested the United States' commitment to moral goals in its foreign policy rather than simply to considerations of national security.

Yours is a situation in which an individual moral goal -- to behave honorably toward both your spouse and the law -- is best facilitated through political action.

Bucking national trends and citing what they call "a moral goal," District of Columbia officials have pledged to preserve and even expand low-income housing, replacing dangerous projects with new communities that keep both poor and "work force" residents — firefighters, teachers and laborers — in the mix.

First, "higher genetic fitness"—more descendants is not a moral goal.

Bradley leveled a barrage of criticisms against any theory, Utilitarian or otherwise, that proposed the maximization of pleasure as the ultimate moral goal.

Moreover, on this version of perfectionism, an agent's primary moral goal is to develop human nature, not to lead a rewarding or fulfilling life.