Sentence examples for moral pathologies from inspiring English sources

For the near future, biomedical treatment of moral pathologies may be a more realistic option than moral enhancement, and may raise more concrete moral questions.

We therefore urge for a more focused debate on realistic options of biomedical treatment of moral pathologies and the concrete moral questions these treatments raise.

Instead of speculating about non-realistic hypothetical scenarios such as the genetic engineering of morality, or morally enhancing 'the whole of humanity', we call for a more focused debate on realistic options of biomedical treatment of moral pathologies and the concrete moral questions these treatments raise.

In the afterword, Priscilla Wald summarizes neatly the book's main contribution: it illustrates the "pathologization of places by the colonial state and the spatial responses instigated to curtail the diffusion of disease" (p. 217), although the word "disease" has to be interpreted broadly to include social and moral pathology.

Other authors, for example Douglas [ 1] and DeGrazia [ 29], appear to use examples of general moral enhancement and specific mental pathologies, such as psychopathy and antisocial traits (e.g. violent aggression), interchangeably.

I am completing my first book, Pathologies of Personhood: The Moral Economy of Insanity in the Nineteenth Century.

Inner life The "inner life" embraces his psychology (or pathology), emotional condition, and moral impulses.

The Don could be called a sociopath - his "pathology" consists of having moral values that diverge from those of society.

The semantic connotations that were lost by the transition from "passions" and "affections" to "emotions" in theories of the human mind can all be grouped together under the unifying theme of pathology: cognitive, medical, or moral (Dixon, 2006, 2011).

And the reason, in part, is the "pathology" created by Rupert Murdoch diminishes the moral senses of all whom its touches.

* As for the poverty of contemporary drama: After several generations of playwrights "pushing the edge" deeper into human pathology and leaching their dramas of moral content -- playwrights like David Mamet, Sam Shepard, Harold Pinter -- we now have their artistic grandchildren: conscience-free and impulse-driven.