Sentence examples for moral merit from inspiring English sources

If ethical undeservedness is as rewardable as moral merit, and if morally defective laws legitimize winnings as much as honorable laws, who has the right to stand in the way of anyone's chutzpah?

Although Hume is well aware of certain rational, intellectually estimable people, such as Bishop Joseph Butler and Sir Isaac Newton, who held some sort of religious belief, he sees religion as inviting superstition and enthusiasm, which can corrupt our estimation of what morality genuinely requires, and what moral merit genuinely consists in.

"Personal History" is a kind of three-hundred-thousand-word Rosebud, and it is a work of literary and moral merit.

Inactive and motionless in themselves, the atoms are put into motion by God's will, through the unseen forces of moral merit and demerit.

Presumably he thinks his valuation of the moral merit of Google's actions trumps the social merit of the public space needed for society to function.

That should not influence a discussion of the ruling's moral merit; as private individuals we should be free from the fear of being forever dragged down by a Google search.

Whatever the legal, constitutional, and moral merits or demerits of drone warfare, is it wise in the Machiavellian sense, simply as a matter of statecraft?

In theory it was not an event that should have created a stir: a philosophical debate on the moral merits of religion.

Mr. Podesta and Mr. Ickes explain their efforts by saying they were persuaded of the moral merits of the argument that Mr. Weinig's sentence was disproportionate to others imposed in the case.

Whatever your organisation's view about the practical and moral merits of limiting social tenancies to those below a certain income level, or of the 'punishment eviction' of tenants where a member of the household has committed a crime, these are the actions that housing providers will be expected (perhaps required) to take.

It asserts that the conditions of legal validity do not depend on the moral merits of the norms in question.