Sentence examples for moral possibility from inspiring English sources
Get ready.' ") Still, the sum of all these improbabilities is a remarkably persuasive picture of moral possibility: when the war arrives, Ludo and Ambrose both become resisters.
As a politician, Miller claims, Lincoln realized "that role's fullest moral possibilities".
It is not the subject but rather the intentions that determine the moral possibilities of a film.
As a result, the moral possibilities are too complex to fit the frame of black victims and white villains.
The postwar physiognomy and rationing pallor then gives way to the eccentric colours and moral possibilities of Turner's world.
The moral possibilities of medical practice are drawn out, without shying away from the risks that doctors such as Sassall run in identifying so closely with those in mental and physical pain.
Thus we see that in general, the skeptical theist's skepticism is of a very high degree concerning its target: our ability to have knowledge of the kinds of possibilities – especially moral possibilities – required to get the argument from evil started.
Given Hume's moral theory, there is no possibility of suspending our moral response.
If we turn from the possibility that perceiving the facts aright will displace moral reasoning to the possibility that applying the correct moral theory will displace — or exhaust — moral reasoning, there are again reasons to be skeptical.
Ethicists as diverse as Kant (1971/1797), Mill (1979/1861), and Ross (1930, 1939) have assumed that an adequate moral theory should not allow for the possibility of genuine moral dilemmas.
And, if Conrad saw in anarchism a chance to dramatise the worst aspects of human behaviour, Chesterton, an optimist and devout Roman Catholic believer, attempts a moral about the possibility of betterment.
