Sentence examples for moral sentiment from inspiring English sources

Moral decisions are grounded in moral sentiment.

The language and moral sentiment is changing.

Inglis sees the history of celebrity as a history of moral sentiment.

Ultimately it wasn't economics or security fears which ended the slave trade, it was public pressure and moral sentiment.

Dr. Johnson, too, though he respected precedent, was above all a champion of moral sentiment and "mediocrity," the appeal to generally shared traits.

Like knowledge of the world, moral sentiment begins with particular impressions — a key idea, since it suggests that we should make moral judgments individually rather than by category.

Explaining moral outcomes alone does not address what many consider most fundamental to morality: moral sentiments.

Adam Smith developed a comprehensive and somewhat unusual version of moral sentimentalism in his Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759, TMS).

The theory of moral sentiments contains important arguments for a morality on the basis of mixed motives.

The result is a light-hearted comedy of moral sentiments.

Suggested reading list: Brissenden, R.F. (1969) 'Authority, Guilt, and Anxiety in The Theory of Moral Sentiments'.