Sentence examples for moral plausibility from inspiring English sources

All this steadily saps the moral plausibility of capitalism.

It is in this phase of capitalistic development, attained in Great Britain in the 19th century, that socialism arises as a revolt against a distribution of wealth that has lost all its moral plausibility.

The moral plausibility of agent-centered theories is rooted here.

The answer seems to be: neither (unless we simply relativize moral truths to various possible ecologies, taking such truths to reduce to facts about effective genetic propagation though as we saw in section 3, such a move has little moral plausibility).

More conventional novels that start with spouses in danger generally go on to involve the death or disappearance of a partner, but the central investigation in Lurid & Cute, despite thriller-like references to "my life before and after" and "losing everything", is philosophical: a consideration of the dynamics of lying, and the moral and physical plausibility of exclusive sexual relationships.

The possibility of value incommensurability is thought to raise deep questions about practical reason and rational choice as well as related questions concerning topics as diverse as akrasia, moral dilemmas, the plausibility of utilitarianism, and the foundations of liberalism.

Reid's theory faces common criticisms about the plausibility of moral sense theory.

Acting as a utilitarian when one has no sympathy with utilitarianism may well diminish one's integrity, but such a loss of integrity is not attributable to utilitarianism and has no bearing on utilitarianism's plausibility as a moral theory.

The key issues are whether utilitarian commitment is compatible with a fully satisfactory account of integrity, and if so, whether integrity is of such value and importance that the clash between integrity and utilitarian commitment undermines the plausibility of utilitarian moral theory.

In any case, even if the nature of disagreements lends some plausibility to cognitivism, moral realists need also to respond to the error theorist's contention that the arguments and disagreements all rest on some false supposition to the effect that there are actually facts of the sort there would have to be for some of the claims to be true.

The plausibility of its associated moral psychology is not, of course, the only dimension on which an ethical theory may be evaluated; equally important are evaluative or normative questions having to do with how well a theory fares when compared to important convictions about such things as justice, fairness, and the good life.