Sentence examples for moral track from inspiring English sources

Yes, art can reassure us that we are on the right moral track; that our values are sound and the consensus speaks truth.

Whatever the details of the intelligence, Japan may not be pleased a "trade commissioner" they're hosting was leaking information about their prized auto industry to a for-profit spy firm with a questionable moral track record.

I appear to be sloganising myself, but it seems to be a fact that the ANC still believes it is on the moral inside track, as much a spiritual movement as a political party, with the struggle as its most sacred myth.

He also observes that the strength of moral approval tracks the benevolent motives of an action, not the good to us (or anyone) that they actually produce someone with little ability to do good can be highly praiseworthy.

On the face of it, the mere fact that natural selection would not have 'designed' our moral faculties to track moral truths accurately (as it plausibly designed our perceptual faculties to track facts about medium sized objects in typical human environments) is not obviously problematic.

Given that our actual judgments are largely explained by affective responses to rule-prohibited actions, we have to either accept that emotions can justify or "give up the bulk of commonsense morality" (Nichols and Gill 2008: 153) This argument doesn't claim that emotions track moral truth or provide some kind of internalist epistemic justification.

Suppose, however, that evolutionary influences not only did not design our faculties to track moral truths, but did positively shape them in ways that have pervasively conditioned the content of our moral thought and feeling, through evolved emotional dispositions or "domain specific modules" that provide us with inherited moral instincts that shape our beliefs.

"If we talk about training a robot to make distinctions that track moral relevance, that's not beyond the pale at all," he said.

The first approach deems moral consideration to track species membership.

We have no access through reason to an independent order of value which moral sense would track.

It does appear that in a naturalistic universe we would expect a process of Darwinian evolution to select for a propensity for moral judgments that track survival and not objective moral truths.