Sentence examples for moral speculation from inspiring English sources

"Moral speculation," he writes, "was puny compared to moral action".

Until the thirteenth century Augustine's responses to questions concerning free will, predestination, the nature of goodness, and divine freedom dominated moral speculation in the Latin West.

Their Gods that Failed are not just the City and Wall Street and various other citizens that annoy them but, in a smart rhetorical manouevre, certain copy-book moral failings: speculation, recklessness, greed, arrogance, oligarchy and excess.

The enduring fascination of the history of political ideas for Ryan is that it is a mixture of philosophical analysis, moral judgement, constitutional speculation and practical advice.

The genre is rich also in prophecy, storytelling of many kinds, bold speculation, and moral lessons read from the structure of the cosmos.

Not surprisingly, "major hedge-fund stars like George Soros and Michael Masters have recently been screaming moral foul on commodity speculation -- a clear signal there's more fire than smoke on the horizon".

Fuelled by media speculation and moral panics, myths proliferate about the increase in trafficking into forced prostitution as well as sex work in the run-up to such events.

His "Zhuan Falun," the group's bible, offered not only exercise routines, but also a moral code and metaphysical speculations.

So nuanced is his treatment of moral relativism as to incur speculation over how far he himself was a relativist.

But Franz Josef Gall was a distinguished neurologist, and he did not think that speculation about the moral order of the universe was beyond his ken as a scientist.

But I would rather have his speculation and his moral leadership than the demagoguery of the Rudy Giulianis and of the Trumps whom they support.