Sentence examples for moral source from inspiring English sources

For nearly 300 years, the European Enlightenment was the intellectual and moral source of change, if not legitimacy, for mankind.

The central enigma of the movie, as Zwick said in a pre-screening speech, is the moral source of unexampled heroism: what made the Bielskis act so bravely at a time when everyone else was helpless or in despair?

Nathan quotes Mishima as saying shortly before his death, I sympathize with the student left, in its unrest, but I deplore its unwillingness to recognize the Emperor as the symbolic moral source of loyalty and culture.

Cp. [13], who sees human dignity as constituting the moral source of human rights.

A conception of law as having a moral source, or a source in a system's institutions, can be independent of a realistic appraisal of law's ideological function, or the ideological process in which laws are made.

That is the moral source of America's authority.

"But in the depth of winter, when nature lies despoiled of every charm and wrapped in her shroud of sheeted snow, we turn for our gratifications to moral sources".

Authenticity guides the moral agent to follow only those "moral sources outside the subject [that speak in a language] which resonate[s] within him or her", in other words, moral sources that accord with "an order which is inseparably indexed to a personal vision" (Taylor 1989: 510).

Rejecting any Christian notion of evil as the privation of good (privatio boni), Heidegger's claim is that guilt is the pre-moral source for any morality.

The relative merits and defects in each have to do with the kind of definition of the supererogatory as well as with some fundamental beliefs about the nature of morality and the source of moral value.

The Church barely serves as a moral authority or source of spiritual solace.