As we have seen, the clergy are not always pinnacles of virtue, and "moral" words are often spoken hypocritically.
Certainly on a causal theory of reference it would be very hard indeed to explain how our moral words and concepts could refer to such sui generis moral properties.
He suggests an example in which our translation practices seem to indicate that when we use moral words from our home language to translate words and concepts from another language, what is most important to us is that native users of the language or concepts generally use them to guide choice and action (Hare 1952, 148 9).
All of which is to say, the time may be ready -- not just for us to try on the ancient moral words, but to start wielding them.
The scientists primed some with religious words as usual, but others were primed with moral words -- virtue, righteous -- and still others with words related to mortality -- deadly, grave and so forth.
Moral: A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make any sense.
Healthcare is an environment where 'change' can be an overused and a moral sapping word.
Precision was a moral imperative, words things to be used carefully.
The era of so-called peaceful coexistence, during the cold war, compromised everyone's morals, and words — issued by Hungarian authorities, or shared among friends who couldn't help suspecting one another of being informants, or coming from the West, which promised help but didn't give it — no longer meant what they were supposed to.
In Spanish, morale and moral are the same word, and Mourinho used that to his advantage.
