Sentence examples for moral relation from inspiring English sources
Heyrick wrote: "The West Indian planter and the people of this country stand in the same moral relation to each other as the thief and receiver of stolen goods".
One area in which Kant takes Hutcheson to task involves our moral relation to ourselves.
In the 19th century, Lord Acton contrasted "nationality" and patriotism as affection and instinct vs. a moral relation.
Most generally, self-respect is a moral relation of persons (and only persons) to themselves that concerns their own intrinsic worth.
Of course, the title Utopia has an ironic cast, for - depending on your perspective, and how you view the moral relation between means and ends - this is surely a dystopian as much as a utopian vision.
(Recall that that moral relation is, on this hypothesis, the relation of legality, and rights and duties are legal when and because they bear that relation to institutional practice).
According to Beitz, a cosmopolitan liberal conception of international morality is "concerned with the moral relations of members of a universal community in which state boundaries have a merely derivative significance" (1999a, 181 2).
He claims that the state of nature is a relational concept describing a particular set of moral relations that exist between particular people, rather than a description of a particular geographical territory.
They questioned the tenability of basing moral relations on an implied social contract in which individuals promise to behave morally toward others on the condition they behave morally toward them and they demonstrated the critical role of trust in establishing an environment conducive to moral interaction.
He believes that there are demonstrable moral relations of fitness and unfitness that we discover a priori by means of reason alone.
But there is a disagreement whether in order to be a form of realism, a theory must hold a stronger claim that (e) moral properties and moral relations are "mind-independent" (Dancy 1986).
