Sentence examples for moral step from inspiring English sources

By creating a coercive order of public legal justice, "a great step is taken toward morality (though it is not yet a moral step), toward being attached to this concept of duty even for its own sake" (Kant, Perpetual Peace 8 376, notes to Appendix I; see also Riley 1982: 129f).

But there's one more thing about Berwick: He believes that President Obama's health care reform is "an important moral step toward universal health care".

Now MacGillis would no doubt respond that making a self-selected community of elites feel connected to one another is a moral step down from covering a diverse city and region as comprehensively as possible.

The list of potential benefits is "not an adequate reason to take such an enormous moral step," says Laurie Zoloth, a bioethicist at Northwestern University, Chicago, in Illinois.

Kant tried, in his Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose [1784], to refute the claim that the development of the domestic state constituted a moral step backwards for humankind, by placing it and its trials "in the history of the entire species, as a steadily advancing but slow development of man's original [rational] capacities" (41).

Our efforts in Congress will only be helped by the sensible and moral step of stopping deportations.

If we do, the moral stride of humanity will have taken one step back, rather than two steps forward.

So here, too, is not only a father/son kinship, but the fellowship of 12-steppers: this is a classic "searching and fearless moral inventory" (step four of the programme) and Jack even includes his email address in case other addicts want to reach to him for help.

Though it was about hard men, Elephant didn't fall into moral lock-step with them by attempting to excite.

But nothing has worked thus far, neither moral suasion nor step-by-step negotiation.

According to one version of internalism, which David Brink calls "agent internalism," in virtue of the concept of morality, moral obligations (or moral reasons, on a two-step internalism linking obligations, reasons, and motives) necessarily motivate the agent to act morally (see Brink 1986, 28).