Sentence examples for morally assessed from inspiring English sources

The Control Principle states that we are morally assessable only to the extent that what we are morally assessed for is under our control.

At the same time, when it comes to countless particular cases, we morally assess agents for things that depend on factors that are not in their control.

So if a way of morally assessing acts is likely to lead to bad decisions, or more generally lead to bad consequences, then, according to a consequentialist point of view, so much the worse for that way of assessing acts.

And making the situation still more problematic is the fact that a very natural line of reasoning suggests that it is impossible to morally assess anyone for anything if we adhere to the Control Principle.

We frequently take as an excuse for morally bad behavior that the agent was not really free not to act badly; such excuses function by claiming that the conditions under which the agent acted preclude the agent's behavior from being used as a basis for morally assessing the agent.

But there are other ways to assess God morally other than in terms of the morally obligatory.

These studies assessed how people decide between two options in a morally challenging situation.

"Migrant" disposes of the obligations implied by "asylum seeker" – morally and psychologically, as well as under international law – and presumes an economic motive, even before individuals' claims to refugee status are assessed.

Do we assess ourselves as more morally righteous?

Presenting Philpott's appeal, her barrister Shaun Smith QC said: "[Her] utter dependence... on Mick Philpott, whilst not excusing culpability, legally or morally, was not given sufficient weight in assessing the length of her sentence".

But isn't one of the very aims of criticism to assess work not just aesthetically but morally, particularly - though by no means exclusively - when the topic is as immense as the Holocaust?