Sentence examples for morally authoritative from inspiring English sources
But McAvoy's News Night (a homage to Paxman?) isn't just first; it's the best, the most morally authoritative, the least concerned with ratings-chasing and personal interest stories.
His last play, "Jesus Hopped the 'A' Train," was a ferocious, many-sided debate about the justice system, which had at its center the bitter, frantically eloquent and morally authoritative soliloquies of a young man in prison for having taken the law into his own hands.
The principal reasons for this are the absence of a publicly accessible and morally and legally authoritative means of distinguishing between just and unjust wars, and the absence of an impartial, supranational mechanism for enforcing an asymmetrical code.
But those who know Welby well say that, this time round, he will not so easily be cowed into silence now that he seems finally to have wrested the church on to an agenda where he believes it is morally strong and authoritative.
The common morality comprises all and only those norms that all morally serious persons accept as authoritative.
Butler criticized those forms of natural law and Hobbesian accounts of motivation that held that I am morally motivated and given an authoritative reason for acting by a law sanctioned with rewards and punishments by a divine or civil legislator.
It is by being intended for common good that law appeals to its subjects' reason, and gives them reason for regarding the law as authoritative and obligatory, morally as well as legally.
The concepts of an authoritative lawmaker and of morally binding laws made by that person are correlates.
Perhaps she thinks that for something to be morally bad would imply or presuppose a kind of inescapable, authoritative imperative against pursuing that thing, while thinking that in fact the universe supplies no such imperatives (Mackie 1977; Joyce 2001; Olson 2011, 2014).
In short, on this alternative view, the capacity to value marks the morally crucial threshold above which the current interests of a formerly competent individual remain authoritative for the surrogate's decisions and the conflicting interests of the earlier self can be set aside.
