Sentence examples for moral latitude from inspiring English sources
Biedermann himself earns not only scorn but an equal measure of sympathy; he's given far more moral latitude than the professor (Michael Lipton), an academic who slavishly supports the Firebugs until doing so is no longer fashionable.
The comedy of manners, which was usually written by sophisticated authors for members of their own coterie or social class, has historically thrived in periods and societies that combined material prosperity and moral latitude.
Perhaps, owners of privately owned companies will have greater moral latitude to pursue altruistic CSR ventures than publicly traded ones.
Some are sensible -- even reasonable, within a certain latitude of moral relativism -- and some rather insensible.
With this in mind, he argued in a later book, "Shame and Necessity" (1993), a study of ancient Greece, that Hellenic ethics allowed for a wider scope of praise and blame than did Christian-based morality, concluding that the sense of shame can be more in tune with our intuitions than moral guilt, and permits more latitude for living a whole life well.
This latitude means that the terms "moral realist" and "moral anti-realist" are free to be bandied with rhetorical force more as badges of honor or terms of abuse (as the case may be) than as useful descriptive labels.
Urging the neglected claims of emotion, motivation and sheer luck in morality, the importance of "internal" as well as "external" reasons, Williams extended moral philosophy from an over-theorised obsession with moral obligation into the Hellenic latitude of ethics - living a whole life well.
The court said German churches have some latitude in firing staff who violate the faith's moral tenets, but said it must be weighed against the prominence of the job and the worker's own rights.
She is complicit in one of the most significant cabals preempting the travel of Americans today and she has no moral authority or legitimacy complaining in her own case that her travel latitude has been restricted when she is directly responsible for inhibiting the freedoms of so many other American citizens.
While such vagueness may give a wide latitude for freedom of expression, it also means that when there's enough moral outrage, it may be difficult for Amazon to resist caving in.
