Sentence examples for moral ranking from inspiring English sources

Exploit an intern whose name you can barely remember while you're the president of the United States, maybe your moral ranking should be downgraded to junk and you should quietly skulk off the public stage.

Average utilitarianism and total utilitarianism are extensionally equivalent in the sense that they give the same moral ranking in cases where the compared populations are of the same size.

You could add your name to its moral ranks with a few keystrokes.

Asked what one issue mattered most to them in choosing a president, "moral values" ranked at the top with the economy/jobs, terrorism and the war in Iraq.

Second, the cooperation argument cannot be extended to justify extremely large sacrifices, such as the soldier falling on the grenade, that standard moral theories rank either as most important or supererogatory.

Although, like Amos, Isaiah appears most often to speak in absolutes, it is indeed possible to interpret these two passages less strictly (as some scholars do) and to say that he spoke in relative terms and that, in his scale of religious values, he merely ranked moral conduct above ritual conformity.

Overall, respondents unequivocally ranked moral responsibility toward shareholders highest within, between and across cases (Score: 7.0).

One strand of her argument is that, unlike a person, a moral criterion can rank any given alternatives just one way.

Overall, the three cases ranked moral responsibility towards the Chamber of mines highest in the Limited Responsibility category (Score: 4.7), followed by suppliers (Score: 4.5) and the duo of local government and local sports in the last place (Score: 4.3).

De Waal focuses thematically on features that contribute to a fully developed moral system: sympathy, rank and order, quid pro quo (tit for tat), and getting along (such as reconciliation), elements that he brings together in a final commentary.

I might, for example, profit more from helping the local Opera society refurbish its hall than I would from giving to famine relief in Africa, but standard moral theories would rank famine relief as more important than Opera hall improvements.