Sentence examples for moral phenomenon from inspiring English sources

It was abhorrent to us to think that we, who had so well earned and so proudly borne the appellation of 'M.T., The Moral Phenomenon,' should live to have such a letter addressed to us.

There are three essential characters, each with a tragic flaw: gloriously handsome Billy, with his stutter; staunch and sterling Captain Edward Vere, with "a queer streak of the pedantic running through him"; and master-at-arms John Claggart, with an unhealthily sallow complexion and a depraved antipathy to the sunny "moral phenomenon presented in Billy Budd".

These and related queries will continue to draw the interest of philosophers to the topic of forgiveness, which remains a complex, elusive, and contested moral phenomenon.

Sensibility in the second half of the eighteenth century was considered both a physical and a moral phenomenon.

As such it can contribute towards the provision of care but cannot guarantee care as a moral phenomenon.

If the project aims more at a fuller understanding of a moral phenomenon, a "normatively weak" approach, such as narrative ethics, might be the better choice.

Or as Nietzsche said, "There are no moral phenomena at all but only a moral interpretation of phenomena".

This conclusion is reinforced by a second consideration, namely that insofar as a moral theory is faithful to the complexity of the moral phenomena, it will contain within it many possibilities for conflicts among its own elements.

Relatively early in his career, philosophy is defined as "an experiential science of spiritual phenomena" that seeks to "cognize the laws governing social, intellectual and moral phenomena" (Dilthey 1924a, 27).

Other approaches are better suited to providing rich and comprehensive descriptions of moral phenomena.

Birnbacher displays a model of the interrelationship between empirical information and ethical thinking where he distinguishes four interdependent aspects of an ethical examination of empirical moral phenomena.