Sentence examples for morally demanded from inspiring English sources

For such a pure or simple consequentialist, if one's act is not morally demanded, it is morally wrong and forbidden.

And since, as a matter of lawful fact about human beings, we must seek pleasure, it is unreasonable to suggest that anything else could be morally demanded of us.

The variety of ends that persons suggest are morally demanded by their intuitions are simply things that have come to be among those things that are for them part of pleasure, ends that are in conflict with those ends that are other parts of pleasure.

The question arises, however, as to what constitutes 'good planning', and to what extent and on which grounds this can be morally demanded of potential parents.

It was further determined that their moral foundations were based more on morally demanding (i.e. common-sense) principles than minimalistic ones (i.e., libertarianism).

These stories are at once primitive and morally demanding.

But, Taylor continues, these achievements also led to more morally demanding lives for everybody, believer and nonbeliever.

But even if the claims of the play are hyperbolic, they serve a function, throwing into relief the morally demanding enterprise of journalistic decision-making.

Thrown among the Others — the foreigners hated for their seeming strangeness as much as for their threat — we find ourselves in the morally demanding but exhilarating position of rooting for them.

'It's a complicated, interesting, morally demanding and very singular experience,' he says, 'and I like that.' The classic Roth protagonist, who surfaces once again in Indignation, is painfully intelligent, self-aware and over-protected.

The writer Gustav von Aschenbach, recently knighted at 50 and revered for fastidious, morally demanding works, is seized by a desire for travel, by a vision of "a tropical swampland under a cloud-swollen sky, moist and lush and monstrous... he saw hairy palm-trunks thrusting upward from rank jungles of fern".