Sentence examples for moral states from inspiring English sources
Moral states of affairs do not just happen to obtain.
So any basic moral states of affairs must obtain necessarily.
Now, presumably not all moral states of affairs can be justified: eventually there will be basic moral states of affairs, for which no justification can be given.
Second, the appeal to necessary moral states of affairs as the stopping point for explanation seems to assume that necessary moral states of affairs somehow are not in need of explanation.
But it would be very unsatisfactory to say that these basic moral states of affairs just happen to obtain.
Thus, the world contains no moral states of affairs, situations which consist in the instantiation of a moral quality.
Conscience, therefore, is only an adequate guide to morality when it provides accurate information of the moral state of a subject's past, present or future action.
The state is not an entity separate from those who run it and those who influence them, and so the expression "a moral state" can only be shorthand for "a state run by morally responsible people".
The claim that the structure of morality is not arbitrary is, put positively, the claim that every obtaining moral state of affairs either has a justification or is necessary.
In favor of the claim that morality could not wholly depend on something arbitrary: when we say that some moral state of affairs obtains, we take it that there is a reason for that moral state of affairs obtaining rather than another.
Self-determination is a moral state and not simply an economic one.
