Sentence examples for moral perplexity from inspiring English sources
Since Plato was neither a moral nihilist nor a sceptic, he cannot have regarded moral perplexity (aporia) as the ultimate end, nor continued mutual examination, more Socratico, as a way of life for everyone.
In this article I want to look at the problem of moral perplexity in the three major novels, War and Peace, Anna Karenina, and Resurrection, and to consider Tolstoy's solution to it as an exercise in a theory of literature as (among other things) a source of vicarious moral experience.
Enter, then, the moral perplexity for Schopenhauer: humans as individuated beings with remarkably strong wills are inherently evil and corrupt because, as individuated, they cannot help but will in such a manner that they wish only for their own wills to rule and be satisfied.
Niebuhr worried about "life's many ambiguities," and concluded that Graham's message — Jesus as the answer to life's problems — was "rather too simple in any age, but particularly so in a nuclear one with its great moral perplexities".
Her research focuses on the moral perplexities of care within bureaucratic settings.
So I'll close with that as a way of trying to bring out yet again the perplexity of moral, or perhaps, immoral luck.
It seems clear that fiction as a form, with its thick texture of actuality, its social knottings, moral dilemmas and spiritual perplexities, was what interested him most.
On the contrary, we often find ourselves facing novel perplexities and moral conflicts in which our moral perception is an inadequate guide.
Whatever their careers or their pursuits, they become alive to moral and civic possibilities and perplexities they might not have noticed before.
The perplexity seems genuine.
